2025: Make Coding Agents Work. 2026: Make Them Work Better.

2025 was the year of making coding agents work — figuring out what they&rsquo;re good at, wiring them into IDEs, running them async, mostly in solo dev environments. Exploration phase. 2026 is about making them work better . The shift from &ldquo;can I use this?&rdquo; to &ldquo;how do I scale this across a team?&rdquo; That means: Spec-driven development becoming a standard practice, not a…