AI agents are changing how code gets written this week. The biggest trend is that AI agents now write code to solve problems instead of trying to do the work themselves. This is much smarter and faster. When Anthropic tested this approach, they used way less computing power - cutting it down from 150,000 tokens to just 2,000 tokens. Companies like Langchain and Anthropic are building special sandbox areas where AI agents can safely write and run code.

Coding tools are getting very popular and powerful. Claude is winning top spots on coding leaderboards, showing it is the best at writing code. A tool called Lovable recently grew to 8 million users, up from 2.3 million just a few months ago. Cursor, another popular coding helper, just raised $2.3 billion and is worth $29.3 billion now. China also released an affordable AI coding agent made by ByteDance.

But there are some problems to watch. Security researchers found serious bugs in popular AI tools like Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft's systems. Hackers can use these bugs to control computers. Also, Cursor's web browser was hacked using JavaScript code injection. Plus, a new study shows that AI coding assistants do not actually save engineers that much time, even though they help write more code.

Companies still need more engineers even with AI. A big survey of 3,266 tech workers shows that AI is helping teams write code faster, but companies actually need to hire more skilled engineers, not fewer. This means AI is making coding easier but not replacing people - it is making teams stronger.