Google's new SDLC whitepaper: from vibe coding to agentic engineering

Google published a free 50-page whitepaper, "The New SDLC With Vibe Coding," by Addy Osmani and co-authors as part of its Kaggle AI Agents course. It reports that 85% of professional developers regularly use AI coding agents, 51% use them daily, and roughly 41% of new code is AI-generated.

• 85% of developers regularly use AI coding agents, 51% daily
• About 41% of all new code is AI-generated
• Changing only the harness moved an agent from outside the Top 30 to the Top 5 on Terminal Bench 2.0
• A LangChain study gained 13.7 points by tweaking only the system prompt and middleware