Definition
A coding agent is an AI assistant that operates on source code as its primary surface: reads files, writes diffs, runs commands. Some are conversational (Cursor, Claude Code). Some run autonomously over longer horizons (Devin). All of them are good at logic and indifferent to side effects.
Why analytics suffers under coding agents
Coding agents are pattern-matchers operating on logic. An analytics call is structurally invisible to logic: it does not return a value, it does not affect control flow, it does not change what the function computes. So when an agent rewrites a function, the analytics call inside is the part most likely to disappear.