AI Agents Are Not Just for Coding (opens in new tab)

Most people meet AI agents at the code editor. That is understandable. Code is where the current generation of agentic tools first proved itself useful: read the files, understand the task, change the program, run the tests, explain what happened. It is a clean loop, and software developers were already comfortable with terminals, diffs, logs, and the occasional uneasy feeling that something small had gone wrong somewhere deep in the machine. But coding is only the outer wall. The more intere...