Coding Weekly AI News

November 17 - November 25, 2025

This weekly update brought major developments in AI coding assistants, with several companies releasing new models focused on agentic workflows - meaning AI that can work independently on complex tasks. Google launched Gemini 3 on November 18 with a new platform called Antigravity that lets multiple AI agents work together on coding projects. At the same time, xAI released Grok 4.1 with a huge 2-million-token context window, allowing the AI to remember more information for longer coding sessions. OpenAI also shipped GPT-5.1-Codex Max on November 19, which specializes in extremely long coding tasks that can take over 24 hours. These releases show that the industry is moving beyond simple autocomplete suggestions toward autonomous AI agents that can plan, execute, and fix code without constant human guidance. Companies like Microsoft invested heavily in this trend, with partnerships worth billions of dollars. However, some developers are concerned about being forced to use AI tools, worried it might hurt their own coding skills and code quality. The trend toward coordinated multi-agent systems means AI assistants will soon work like a team, with different agents handling architecture, refactoring, testing, and documentation separately.

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