AI is moving beyond generating snippets of code and answering developer questions. AI agents can now work with files, tools, codebases and development environments to perform multi-step software engineering tasks.

This is creating a new development workflow where developers can use AI to investigate problems, generate changes, test solutions and automate repetitive tasks while remaining responsible for reviewing and validating the results.

The future of software development is increasingly becoming a collaboration between developers and intelligent tools rather than simply replacing one with the other.