--- title: QCon London AI Coding State of the Game: More Capable,... description: Birgitta Böckeler's QCon London keynote reviewed the evolving AI coding landscape, highlighting a shift from vibe coding to autonomous coding agents and agent... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-ai-coding-state-of-the-game-more-capable-more-expensive-more-dangerous-coding-agents-f6ehrsei8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: QCon London AI Coding State of the Game: More Capable, More Expensive, More Dangerous Coding Agents | daily.dev og:description: Birgitta Böckeler's QCon London keynote reviewed the evolving AI coding landscape, highlighting a shift from vibe coding to autonomous coding agents and agent... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-ai-coding-state-of-the-game-more-capable-more-expensive-more-dangerous-coding-agents-f6ehrsei8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/f6EHrsEI8.png og:image:alt: QCon London AI Coding State of the Game: More Capable, More Expensive, More Dangerous Coding Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # QCon London AI Coding State of the Game: More Capable, More Expensive, More Dangerous Coding Agents **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Birgitta Böckeler's QCon London keynote reviewed the evolving AI coding landscape, highlighting a shift from vibe coding to autonomous coding agents and agent swarms. Key developments include context engineering with granular skill loading, headless CLI modes connecting to CI/CD pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration via Claude Code's Agent Teams. She raised two major concerns: a worsening security landscape driven by prompt injection attacks (including a real incident where an unsupervised agent leaked secrets to an NPM registry), and rising costs of agent-based development. She proposed a risk framework based on mistake probability, impact, and detectability, and emphasized that security is a conceptual rather than purely technical problem. Her closing point: AI coding amplifies existing engineering practices, good or bad. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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