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An agent that cannot judge time is harder to manage than it looks. The Decoder's report on coding assistants overestimating task duration shows a basic weakness in today's agent workflow: models can produce work, but they do not yet understand time the way teams need them to.
A coding assistant that answers a prompt is easy to understand. A coding assistant that stays awake, notices unfinished work, and starts its own follow-up tasks is a much bigger bet. It turns software development from a request-response workflow into something closer to managing a tireless teammate.
The newest software supply-chain risk may not arrive as a malicious package uploaded by a stranger. It may arrive through an AI coding agent that confidently installs code nobody on the team truly reviewed, owns, or understands.