Lessons from 2025: Software's Year of the Coding Agents

It’s nearly 2026. After decades of writing code by hand, and in less than one chaotic year, we software developers find ourselves in an entirely new world. Our machines not only can write most of the code for us, but far more than we could have ever written ourselves.

What have we learned in 2025, the extraordinary year of software agents, that can help us use them more effectively in 2026?

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Ed Lyons
The Perils of Letting Coding Agents Write All of Your Tests by Ed Lyons

The answer to potential mistakes by coding agents is often increasing the amount of test code. Many organizations are making a big push to increase testing code to enable greater agent use.

Yet my experience has revealed that this formula does not work as well as imagined. Human decisions around test code before we used agents were doing more good work than I realized, and they need to be restored.

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Ed Lyons
Your Best Prompts Are Software by Dakota Kim

A good prompt can lead to behavior that feels like magic. One line of carefully tuned instructions can transform messy input into something structured, useful, and surprisingly specific. That makes a strong prompt more than just a clever trick!

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Dakota Kim