Coding Weekly AI News

February 9 - February 17, 2026

This weekly update shows that AI agents are changing how companies write computer code. One big story is that Spotify's best programmers have not written any code since December because AI agents are doing the work for them. A former GitHub leader started a new company called Entire to help manage all the code that AI agents create. OpenClaw is becoming very popular as an open-source AI agent that can do many tasks like reading emails and managing browser windows. New tools like Claude Agent are now built into Apple's code editor so programmers can write code faster.

Companies are also thinking about safety and security when using AI agents. A group called the Coalition for Secure AI is making rules to keep AI agents safe and secure. Claude Code at Spotify shows how powerful AI agents are becoming—an engineer can tell the AI agent to fix a problem or add a new feature on their phone, and the code is ready to use before they even get to the office.

Programmers are also learning a new way to work with AI agents called skills-in-the-middle, where they write simple instruction files instead of complicated code. Big companies like Meta and OpenAI want to buy OpenClaw because it is growing so fast. The main change is that programmers now focus on what to build, not how to build it, because AI agents handle the hard coding work.

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