Coding agents are like steroids: what bodybuilding can teach us about the risks of AI coding tools
Some developers have drawn the analogy that coding agents are like steroids in bodybuilding: they let beginners achieve with ease what used to take enormous effort, and let experienced professionals produce workloads that were previously impossible. But these code-generation agents carry medium- and long-term risks, and amateurs and beginners should wait until they hit their own "natural limit" before considering using them.