Two years of agentic coding: what stuck
The workflows that survived contact with real work, the ones that did not, and what the whole thing actually changed.
#coding-agents
22 pieces tagged coding-agents,
from January 31, 2025 to July 31, 2026.
Refactoring under an agent
Large mechanical refactors are the clearest win available from coding agents. Here is the process that keeps them safe.
Agent fleets in production: a field report
Running many coding agents at once works better than expected on one axis and worse on every other. What actually happens.
Prompt injection is SQL injection without the fix
The analogy is exact except for the part that matters: there is no parameterized query for natural language.
AGENTS.md and the repository that explains itself
A convention nobody standardized became standard anyway. Here's what belongs in it and what doesn't.
Claude Opus 4.5 and the compaction problem
A frontier release with a large price cut, plus effort controls and context compaction as a first-class feature.
Gemini 3 arrives with an IDE attached
Google ships a frontier model and Antigravity, an agent-first development environment. The bundling is the strategy.
ChatGPT Atlas and the browser as an agent runtime
OpenAI ships a Chromium-based browser with an agent that can act on pages. The prompt injection surface is now your whole session.
DevDay: AgentKit, Apps in ChatGPT, and a platform play
OpenAI ships an agent builder, an app SDK, and a distribution channel. The strategy is now unambiguous.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the agent that runs for thirty hours
A model tuned for long-horizon autonomous work, plus checkpoints and context editing in the SDK.
ChatGPT Agent, and the browser sandbox as a product
OpenAI merges Operator and deep research into one agent with a virtual computer. The interesting part is the permission model.
Windsurf gets pulled apart in a week
An acquisition collapses, Google licenses the technology and hires the founders, Cognition buys the rest. Everyone learns something about acquihires.
everything else tagged #coding-agents 10
- Kimi K2 is a trillion-parameter open weights releasenews
- Gemini CLI puts a free agent in your terminalnews
- Cursor at $9 billion and the coding-tool land grabnews
- Claude 4 and the agent that runs for hoursnews
- Codex, and the agent that opens pull requestsnews
- o3 and o4-mini put tools inside the reasoning loopnews
- Vibe coding is real, and it is not what you thinkessay
- OpenAI adopts MCP, and a protocol becomes a standardnews
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet ships, and so does a terminalnews
- Operator, and the long road to an agent that can clicknews