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How serious teams evaluate coding agents in 2026
A practical guide to testing coding agents before they silently break production.
#coding-agents#evals#AI-engineering#SWE-bench#agent-observability
Applied AI Engineering publishes practical, source-backed issues on evals, agents, product systems, and the operating work behind reliable AI.
57.3%
Agents in production
LangChain survey respondents reporting production agent deployments.
46%
Distrust AI accuracy
Stack Overflow respondents skeptical of AI output accuracy.
$4B
Coding-tool spend
Menlo Ventures estimate for 2025 coding-related generative AI spend.

A practical guide to testing coding agents before they silently break production.