Meta Description: A deep technical breakdown of how AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex work under the hood — covering the agentic loop architecture, context window management, subagent orchestration, CI/CD integration, and what Uber's 25%-commit milestone reveals about where software engineering is headed in 2026.
Table of Contents
The Numbers That Changed Everything
What Actually Makes an AI Coding Agent Different
Inside the Agentic Loop: The Core Architecture







