Answers questions about, retrieves safe excerpts from, explains concepts from, and summarizes key arguments in Birgitta Böckeler's talk "State of Play: AI Coding Assistants" (AI Native Dev conference, 2026). Use when the user asks about the last 12 months in AI coding assistants, model-task fit, LLM statelessness, context window and attention trade-offs, coding harnesses, harness engineering/context engineering, skills/MCP/sub-agents/plugins/hooks, guide-and-sensor feedback loops, background agents and swarms, review bottlenecks, AI coding costs, cognitive surrender, or risk-based supervision of coding agents.
