2025 Was the Year AI-Assisted Coding Went Mainstream — and Hit Reality

Summary

Business Insider's year-end retrospective examines how 2025 became a pivotal year for AI-assisted coding, with widespread adoption of tools from Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (Codex), and others, alongside growing recognition of their limitations. The article highlights that while developers like Sriraam Raja of Decode have used generative AI for coding over two years — learning new languages and reducing technical debt — many practitioners found agentic coding tools unreliable, with one developer