Fully autonomous AI developers in the cloud promise a lot. But they handle only specific tasks well. Here's where they work, where they don't, and how to use them effectively.
Every codebase has that file. 2000 lines, no tests, whoever wrote it no longer works here. AI is the ideal tool for this — but only with the right process.
AI sees the entire stacktrace at once and reads without assumptions. Most developers don't use it for debugging — and they're missing the biggest time savings.
Legacy code is where AI delivers the biggest ROI. 10,000 lines with no tests and no docs? This is exactly where AI saves weeks of work — if you know how.