WTF Happened in 2025?

February 26, 2026

METR trendline of Long Tasks Agent Capabilities breaks down immediately after publication

A collection of datapoints in or around 2025 which we may look back as a historical inflection point. Open source & curated in realtime by Latent Space.

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I’m certainly not alone in thinking that something happened in late November or early December, the launch of a number of new frontier models and what we’re calling harnesses, whether it’s anti-gravity or a new version of Claude Code, and there was a step function in changing how capable, all agentic coding systems became in that moment.

Here, Shawn Wang and the Latent Space folks have collected a series of moments that happened to capture a sense of how this unfolded rapidly over a period of weeks.