At Microsoft, coding agents spread mostly through coworkers
A study of tens of thousands of Microsoft engineers found more merged PRs among CLI-agent users. The more reusable result may be how people started using the tools at all.
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A study of tens of thousands of Microsoft engineers found more merged PRs among CLI-agent users. The more reusable result may be how people started using the tools at all.

Flowcode combines AI chat with a visualization of program structure. Its more interesting idea is less comfortable: keeping the assistant from erasing the work of learning.
MCP 2026-07-28 removes protocol-level HTTP sessions. It sounds like plumbing, but it changes how naturally small agent tools can live on serverless infrastructure.
The problem is no longer just getting an agent to do the work. It is getting the right evidence back so a human can decide whether to accept it.