Given their incredible level of adoption, it's hard to believe that agentic coding systems like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex have only been with us for about 18 months. In that time, they've gone from promising novelties to amazing and highly productive members of our programming teams. For those of us who have already experienced either or both of these tools, they've become mission critical elements of our overall programming stack. But for those of you who haven't yet...
