72% of teams are running coding agents in production. Most of them can't say which agent they'd trust with a critical path change at 11pm, or why.
Summary
While 72% of teams use coding agents in production, most lack formal governance or empirical data on agent reliability. The article argues for session-level tracking over policy frameworks to ensure trust in critical deployments.
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