Which is exactly why we saw 1000s of ' "I" rewrote <mature software> in rust' posts last year when agentic coding really took off.
Agents (even ones powered by small models) do reasonably well when provided an oracle to work against.
Agents (even ones powered by small models) do reasonably well when provided an oracle to work against.
It's fairly successful but hits the time constrains and reduces the "value" of getting a local model to develop software.
It's still a bump in productivity.