How would you explain to leadership what coding agents are good at today and what they still should not own?

Instruction: Describe how you would set realistic expectations for coding agents with leadership.

Context: Evaluates whether the candidate can communicate judgment, collaboration, and ownership in a real setting. Describe how you would set realistic expectations for coding agents with leadership.

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I would say coding agents are good at bounded, repo-grounded engineering work: small fixes, search-heavy tasks, draft patches, repetitive edits, and validation loops with clear success criteria. They still struggle more when the task requires broad product judgment, ambiguous scope, or operational authority outside the code...

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