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July 19, 2026
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Ready to Ship. Until the Code Review.
By Cristiano Pierry
A coding agent can declare its implementation finished, then reject the same work minutes later when asked to review it.
Frontier AI coding agents have made incredible progress.
Ask one to implement Quick Sort and it will disappear for a few minutes, come back proud of itself, and announce:
“Done! The implementation is ready to use.”
Then immediately ask the same agent to review its own code.
“I found 3 P1 issues, 1 P2 issue, and I would not recommend shipping this implementation.”
Apparently the fastest way to find bugs is to ask the same AI five minutes later.
We’re making remarkable progress.
Just… not quite at AGI yet.
Baby steps.
This writing reflects my personal perspectives on product management, AI, and content discovery. It does not represent the official position of my employer or any affiliated organization.