Enterprise software is about to get personal

Each generation built on the failure of the last, but we’re at the start of a new era. In 2025, software engineering underwent profound change. A new generation of AI models (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex), paired with a maturing agentic infrastructure, crossed an invisible capability threshold. By the end of the year, developers moved from “AI helps me write code I carefully review” to “I can orchestrate teams of agents that automate most of the development process.” What made it happen wasn’t smarter models, but the infrastructure around them finally catching up.