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AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer AI coding agents are getting good enough that the problem is changing. A year ago, the question was mostly: Can this thing write useful code? Now, for a lot of builders, the better question is: How do I supervise this thing once it is actually doing work? That shift feels important. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar tools are not just autocomplete anymore. They can plan, edit files, run commands, review code, and work across larger chunks of a proje...

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