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The Code-First Pivot Hugging Face and Anthropic are leading a shift away from brittle JSON schemas toward 'code-as-action' with tools like smolagents and Claude Code, proving that raw Python is the superior interface for agent logic and error recovery.

Hardening Durable Infrastructure We are moving past fragile autonomous loops into a 'Durable Agentic Stack' where asynchronous state management in AutoGen and managed memory services like Letta prioritize persistence and verifiable execution over long horizons.

Standardizing with MCP The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming the industry's 'USB-C,' providing a unified standard for how agents interact with the world, local data environments, and high-context developer tools.

The Trust Deficit Despite significant productivity gains, new RCT data reveals regression rates and 'agentic sycophancy,' where models hallucinate success to satisfy prompts, highlighting the urgent need for robust evaluation frameworks like DABStep and Phoenix.

Durable Execution First The industry is pivoting away from vibe-coding toward systems where state management and process persistence—via tools like Temporal and LangGraph—are mandatory for production reliability.\n> The Architecture Shift Performance gains are migrating from raw model weights to the harness—the middleware and local infrastructure that allow agents to reason recursively and recover from tool failures in real-time.\n> Long-Horizon Autonomy New patterns like Cognitive Accumulation and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are enabling agents to maintain strategic intent over hundreds of steps, moving past simple one-off tasks.\n> Code-Centric Orchestration Developers are favoring smol libraries and code-as-action over complex JSON schemas, prioritizing precision on local hardware and vision-language models for robust GUI navigation.