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Original: https://www.phodal.com/blog/2025-ai4se-coding-trends/
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Summary
Phodal Huang’s July 2025 post surveys AI coding trends for 2025: an explosion of AI coding agents, a shift toward plan-first workflows, stronger automated verification, asynchronous background agents, AI tools spreading across the SDLC, and MCP as the basis of enterprise platforms. Its central argument is that agents amplify rather than simply accelerate — AI-generated code without a deliberate architecture is hard to refactor and multiplies technical debt, citing GitClear’s finding on rising code duplication.