swyx's 2026 Thesis: Coding Agents Are 'Breaking Containment' Into Everything Else, With AI-for-Science the Next Frontier

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In Latent Space's 2026 roadmap, swyx argues that after 2025 was the year of coding agents, 2026 is when those agents escape software engineering to do everything else — quoting OpenAI's Kevin Weil that 'AI for Science in 2026 will look a lot like AI for Software Engineering in 2025.' Latent Space is expanding hosts and shows to cover the spread. The framing is a useful map for builders deciding which agent patterns transfer from coding to adjacent domains.