Chasing Jarvis: The Three Missing Pieces in AI Coding Agents

I’ve watched the Iron Man movies more times than I care to admit. Not for the explosions or the superhero theatrics, but for something more fundamental: the way Tony Stark works with Jarvis. Watch any scene where they’re developing something together. It’s not Stark typing commands into a terminal or carefully crafting context-heavy prompts. It’s a conversation. They’re brainstorming in real-time, iterating on ideas as they emerge, testing concepts on the fly. Jarvis doesn’t wait for perfect instructions; he (it) engages, questions, suggests alternatives, and executes autonomously while maintaining continuous dialogue.