2025 was chaos in the best way: DeepSeek cracked open the model monopoly and proved world-class open weights don't need infinite budgets. Vibe coding went mainstream - prompt your way to an app without staring at code - unlocking ideas for non-engineers but flooding repos with bugs (our data shows AI code spawns ~1.7× more issues than human-written). Agents evolved from demos to long-running beasts, CLI tools like Claude Code let AI run wild in terminals, Cursor/Windsurf supercharged IDEs for pros, Gemini 3 stormed back with killer reasoning, Anthropic scooped Bun, and MCP + Agent Skills started standardizing the agent wars.

Hosted by Hendrik (CodeRabbit Dev Advocate) with David Loker (VP of AI), we dissect the timeline, the hype vs. reality, and why blind vibe coding is creating a maintenance nightmare. David drops hard truths and real predictions on 2026... 

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