Once we have something that experiences a desktop interface more like a human does, an entire swathe of tooling that has heretofore been nigh-impossible to automate moves into the fold, and that'll be another explosion of folks finally getting to join the agentic workflow world on their industry specific apps...
The popular thing is now to setup loops (eg I setup hourly integrations for Claude/Codex to 1) scrape my Linear, claim achievable tasks, and push PRs or 2) do root cause analysis on customer issues that evaded automated filters, to name a few)
Though for me, my setup still feels mundane. I have AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md etc and a few skill files. These are purposefully light - tons of examples online you can pull from online. Mine are fairly personal to my setup and products.
Importantly, I also allow Claude and Codex to bypass permissions. Yes, there is a risk they wipe my machine. The productivity upside has been worth it, for me (haven't been burned yet, ~9+ months into running models this way, I have backups, use cloud etc).
As far as maintaining quality, one of the most helpful guardrails over the past year, for me, has been requiring my agents to pipe their changes to local reviewers through OpenCode, Cursor, etc agents to have a council of models with different biases reviewing the changes, and autonomously working towards a completed objective. No matter how good Claude or Codex gets, for example, I will probably always want a different model checking its work. Like GLM, (now with 4.5) Grok, Composer.
Several OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI employees, and popular AI engineers post on X and share helpful tips & updates. Highly recommend for keeping a pulse on startups and AI. I haven't found something close, honestly, other than when I spend time in SF talking to people.
Literally every major company that has embraced AI coding has suffered devastating downtime this year as a direct result of AI induced failures.
The only companies sticking with AI at this point are the major players who have chasing their masssive overinvestments to the bitter end, crappy coding shops, and for some reason Starbucks and they'll all suffering badly in a year their customers begin demanding massive amounts of human coding to repair all the issues with the AI code.