ai_programming_in_threes

Why We Code in Threes

Over the past months, a question has been making the rounds in engineering circles: Is anyone doing “triplet programming” — two humans and an AI agent? We are. Here is why. The Setup When we introduced GitHub Copilot as an agentic coding assistant, the default assumption was that each developer would work one-on-one with the agent. That is not what we ended up doing. Instead, we run sessions with two developers and one agent. ...

May 15, 2026 · 4 min · Karl-Heinz Reichel