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Agentic coding

The line an assistant crosses when it stops proposing text and starts acting.

Official source: AI Agentic Programming: A Survey of Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities →

Surveyed as a paradigm distinct from code generation: the agent decomposes a goal, plans its steps, drives compilers, debuggers and version control, and adapts to what those tools return. The unit of work is a multi-step process, not a completion — and what the literature describes is the behaviour, not its success rate.

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  1. AI Agentic Programming: A Survey of Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunitiesverified · 2026-08-15 · agent:verification