From a software development perspective, there is little doubt what 2025 will be known for when looking back. In fact, it already has a somewhat wild name: the Agentic Era. It didn’t even need a full year to pick up that moniker.
At the beginning of the year, we were all getting used to a ChatGPT box appearing in IDEs like VS Code — for example, JetBrains made an extension available. But early April was the first time I would write about Claude Code and come across an “agentic CLI” (command line interface).
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