Type: url
Original: https://www.phodal.com/blog/ai-coding-2025-summary/
Status: partial
Summary
Phodal Huang’s end-of-2025 review of AI coding, written from the perspective of a Chinese open-source tool author, identifies six trends: domestic Chinese coding models catching up in agentic capability, model vendors opening up to established coding tools, a revival of specifications alongside experimentation in context engineering, a falling barrier to end-to-end tooling, self-verifying agents, and AI replacing repetitive full-stack work. It argues that coding tools should compete on engineering certainty rather than on emotional companionship.