The Future of Coding Agents
Originally published on Medium
Three days after launching Gas Town, this post shares the backstory and makes predictions about what will happen to IDEs, big companies, and coding agents themselves in 2026.
Gas Town Today
Gas Town works pretty OK today—super fast, very fun, very powerful, definitely sloppy. But it will get dramatically more capable as four evolving situations unfold around tooling and model intelligence.
Predictions
- The future of IDEs and how they'll adapt to agent-first workflows
- How big companies will respond to the agent revolution
- The evolution of coding agents themselves
- Real-world examples of using Gas Town for production work
I have created something that is just barely smart enough.