For years we've heard that fully autonomous vehicles were just around the corner. Yet here we are in 2025, and truly self-driving cars remain elusive for mass adoption. The parallels between autonomous vehicles and AI coding agents are striking - and instructive for how we should view the future of software development. The Perpetual Promise Just as self-driving cars have been "almost ready" for the past decade, we're now hearing similar claims about AI agents that can code entire systems from s...