What AI Coding Assistants Break First

AI coding assistants aren’t a “nice to have” anymore — they’re reshaping how software gets built, faster than any tool before them.

But for enterprise teams, the real question isn’t what these tools can do.
It’s what they change, what they expose, and what breaks if you get adoption wrong.

In this episode of AI Proving Ground, Nate McKie and Andrew Brydon unpack what’s actually happening inside AI-powered software teams — beyond the hype.

We cover:
Which AI coding assistants deliver real productivity gains
Why adoption exploded faster than anyone predicted
The hidden risks teams are already running into — from over-reliance to uneven readiness and new security gaps
How agentic AI will reshape engineering roles by 2026 and beyond

If you lead software, engineering, or platform teams, this conversation helps you separate signal from noise — and build an AI development strategy that scales without surprises.

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Chapters:
0:00 AI Hype vs. Real Adoption
2:30 The AI Tools That Actually Move the Needle
6:00 Inside Today’s AI Dev Stack
10:20 Picking Signal Over Shiny Objects
14:30 Is Your Team AI-Ready?
18:20 Stop Measuring the Wrong Wins
22:00 ROI Is More Than Speed
27:10 When Teams Trust AI Too Much
30:10 Agentic AI: What Breaks First
35:00 Junior vs. Senior Engineers (AI Changes This)
39:00 Quality Up, Time Back
43:00 MCP, Security, and Real Risk

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