there's this report from Temporal called State of Development 2026 that surveyed 554 engineers using AI agents daily
and the finding that hit hard was simple. they all trust their AI agents but they still manually verify everything before it reaches production
that's literally me. i have agents writing code, running tests, fixing bugs. but i still review every PR myself. still read the diffs. still test the edge cases the agent probably skipped
not because i dont trust the output. because i've seen what happens when you dont. a clean function that breaks at 2am when a null sneaks in. a migration script that works locally but nukes prod data
the trust is real but the verification is non negotiable
anyone else in this weird spot where you can't go back to manual coding but also can't fully let go of the wheel
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