Coding Agents Are Actually Good at This One Thing

The discourse around AI coding tools tends to collapse into two camps: people who think they're going to replace developers, and people dunking on "vibe coding" demos that fall apart the moment you look at them sideways. Both camps are mostly arguing about the wrong thing. I've been using coding agents heavily for the past few months, and the use case where they've actually changed how I work isn't production applications or greenfield SaaS ideas. It's internal tooling. And that distinction matters more than people are giving it credit for. The Airtable Problem For years, I built internal tools the way most of us did: I found something close enough and made it work. Airtable was great for this. I built conference talk trackers, content inventories, planning dashboards... all kinds of things. The spreadsheet-meets-database model was genuinely useful, and for a while, it was the right call. But you're always fighting two things with tools like Airtable or Notion or even Asana when you're