swyx / Latent Space: 2026 Is 'The Year Coding Agents Break Containment to Do Everything Else'

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In his 2026 thesis post, swyx (Shawn Wang) declared that 2025 was the year of coding agents and 2026 is when they 'break containment' to handle non-coding tasks. Latent Space is scaling to 80,000+ AINews subscribers, expanding to a podcast network with new shows (starting with AI for Science), and planning 7+ AI Engineer conferences worldwide in 2026.