Augment Code firmly believes that coding agents drastically reduce time-to-code from days to hours, while freeing engineers to focus on higher-level decisions such as system architecture, maintainability and security. Rather than removing humans from the loop, coding agents place them in a managerial role, curating output and guiding development, according to Guy Gur-Ari, co-founder of Augment Code. The value of coding agents lies in speed, breadth of knowledge and the agent’s ability to integrate with vast codebases and libraries. “We’re not setting out to replace software engineers; we’re setting out to augment them and help them be more productive,” Gur-Ari said. “And that’s certainly what we’re seeing with the agent now. Things that used to take a developer hours, days or weeks to perform can now be done in hours or less. But to us, what that means is developers can ultimately then be more productive and produce more and build even more amazing products than they could before.” Importantly, the success of these tools hinges on supervision. Left unchecked, agents can accrue technical debt quickly, according to Gur-Ari. But with the right oversight, they produce high-quality, scalable code quickly. “We work on developing an AI assistant for professional developers that works on large code bases, large teams for performing real software development tasks. To me, everything that’s happening now with large language models and code is just incredibly exciting.”. The latter philosophy is Augment Code’s raison d’être; the company firmly believes that coding agents drastically reduce time-to-code from days to hours, while freeing engineers to focus on higher-level decisions such as system architecture, maintainability and security. Rather than removing humans from the loop, coding agents place them in a managerial role, curating output and guiding development,