Coding-Agents

If you’ve ever watched a coding agent confidently write Gemini API code that was deprecated six months ago, Google has something for you. Two new tools launched this week from Google’s developer team — Gemini API Docs MCP and Gemini API Developer Skills — and together they do something impressively concrete: push coding agent accuracy on Gemini API tasks from roughly 60% to 96%, according to Google’s own evals. That’s not a marginal improvement. That’s the difference between an agent that’s useful and one that’s reliably useful. ...

A Silicon Valley fintech startup has done what many have theorized and few have actually shipped: replaced its entire software development team with AI agents built on OpenClaw and Claude Code. JustPaid — which makes an AI-powered platform for automating financial operations like billing and invoicing — has deployed seven fully autonomous AI coding agents. In just one month, those agents built ten major features. Each one, says CTO Vinay Pinnaka, would have taken JustPaid’s human developers a full month to ship. ...

Zhipu AI released GLM-5.1 on March 27, 2026, and the benchmark numbers are legitimately surprising. On Claude Code’s own coding evaluation, GLM-5.1 scores 45.3 — that’s 94.6% of Claude Opus 4.6’s 47.9. On SWE-bench-Verified, it hits 77.8 (open-source state of the art). On Terminal Bench 2.0, it posts 56.2. And it’s available via OpenRouter at a fraction of Opus pricing. This guide walks you through connecting GLM-5.1 to OpenClaw via OpenRouter and configuring it intelligently for coding-heavy agent workloads. ...

It doesn’t wear a suit. It doesn’t take breaks. And it just got too popular to let everyone use. Business Insider reported this week that Google has been quietly running an internal autonomous coding tool called Agent Smith — and it’s been causing quite a stir inside the Googleplex. The tool became so heavily used that Google had to restrict access just to keep up with demand. The name is almost certainly a Matrix reference, which either says something about Google’s sense of humor or its appetite for irony when naming the autonomous agent that’s here to change how software gets built. ...

JetBrains has been quietly building something bigger than an IDE upgrade. On March 24, the company officially confirmed JetBrains Central — described as “the control and execution plane for agent-driven software production” — with Early Access opening in Q2 2026. If you’ve been following the JetBrains Air IDE (which this site covered earlier), Central is the layer above it. Air is where individual AI coding agents work. Central is where you manage, coordinate, and scale many of them simultaneously. ...

JetBrains confirmed today that JetBrains Central will open for Early Access in Q2 2026 — and it’s a meaningfully different product from the JetBrains AI-assisted IDE tools we’ve covered before. Where JetBrains Air focuses on AI assistance inside the IDE for individual developers, Central operates at a higher level: it’s described as a “control and execution plane for agent-driven software production.” Think of it as the management layer that coordinates multiple parallel AI coding agents working simultaneously across real codebases. ...

Cursor launched Composer 2 with a confident performance claim: 61.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, beating Claude Opus 4.6 at one-tenth the cost. The developer community noticed. What they didn’t notice — at first — was what was underneath. Within 24 hours of launch, Moonshot AI employees had reverse-engineered the model’s weights and found something that Cursor hadn’t mentioned anywhere in its announcement: Composer 2 is built on top of Kimi K2.5, Moonshot AI’s open-source model. ...

If you want to understand where the AI industry thinks agentic AI is heading, watch where Google moves its engineers. This week, Wired reported that Google is restructuring Project Mariner — its Chrome browser AI agent, which lets AI systems browse the web and click through interfaces the way a human would. Engineers from the Mariner team are being pulled to work on higher-priority coding agent projects. A Google spokesperson confirmed the changes, telling Wired that Mariner’s computer-use capabilities will live on inside the company’s broader agent strategy — but the dedicated browser agent team as it existed is being reorganized. ...

GitHub’s engineering blog published a detailed technical deep dive today on Squad — an open-source project that brings coordinated, multi-agent AI coding directly into your repository, powered by GitHub Copilot. No custom orchestration layer. No external agent framework. Just agents working inside your codebase, on your infrastructure. The post walks through the design rationale, implementation details, testing approach, and code review workflow — making this one of the most thorough first-party explanations of production multi-agent coding to come from a major platform vendor. ...

LangChain has open-sourced Open SWE — a full software engineering agent framework built on LangGraph and their Deep Agents infrastructure — and it’s a meaningful step forward for teams who want to run coding agents that go beyond single-file edits into real, end-to-end software engineering workflows. The official release blog from LangChain dropped this week, following a preview post in January. The GitHub repository is live and active. What Open SWE Is Open SWE is an open-source framework for building and deploying internal coding agents — systems that can take a task description and see it through from understanding to implementation to pull request, running in a cloud sandbox environment along the way. ...