2024
SWE-bench
The industry measure: the share of real issues from open repositories closed without a human.
Branches · CODE
Engineering systems
AI stopped suggesting one line at a time. It reads the whole project, plans a change, applies it across dozens of files and runs the tests itself.
The most advanced branch of the timeline: autonomy pays off fastest here because the result is immediately checkable by tests.
Status
TypeBranches
Marker
What exists today7
Researched
2026
Repo-scale context as default
Systems plan and test complete changes instead of completing lines.
2026
Agents inside CI
Triaging failed builds, fixing tests and bumping dependencies moved into the automated loop.
In progress
сейчас
Review is the bottleneck
Writing code became cheaper than reviewing it — a bigger shift than generation itself.
сейчас
Debt instead of savings
Code nobody read accumulates faster than before. The industry has not yet seen what that costs in three years.
Planned
в планах
Design, not patches
Moving from closing tickets to owning architecture: choosing trade-offs rather than executing decisions already made.
Distant horizons
впереди
Software without source
A product defined by requirements and tests, with code regenerated automatically and read by nobody.
Branches off
To the line