Using Coding Agents Without Producing Slop

This article was first release in the german IT-magazine Golem . When it comes to AI coding, I see the following two sentiments almost exclusively online: AI is useless, and generates nothing but unmaintainable slop AI is going to replace all developers by the end of 2026 The truth is typically somewhere in between. For the last 6 months, I've been spending a lot of time with AI agents, and have…