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Illustration of the gap between what product decided and what engineering built, with a coding agent falling into the crack between two cards, captioned: the agent didn't guess wrong, it resolved an ambiguity nobody closed

AI Development14 min read

Why AI Coding Agents Need Collaborative Planning Before They Build

AI coding agents don't stop to ask when a decision was never made — they pick a default and ship it. Here's why product and engineering have to agree on scope before an agent starts, not after.

Dishant Sethi

September 17, 2026