Developers Form Addictive Agent-Driven Coding Habits

An industry commentator on January 18, 2026 warns that widespread developer reliance on memoryful AI agents has fostered addictive workflows, degraded PR and issue quality, and created insular communities. The piece cites tools like Claude, Cursor, Gas Town and Beads, notes a 2.2 million-token MiniJinja port example, and warns of high token costs and fragile code provenance, urging stronger human oversight.