The New Agency Stack: How Dev Shops Use Claude, Cursor, and Copilot in Production
July 24, 2026 / #ai-agent The New Agency Stack: How Dev Shops Use Claude, Cursor, and Copilot in Production Manish Shivanandhan Two years ago, AI coding tools were a curiosity. Agencies let junior devs experiment with them on internal tools and side projects, the kind of work where nothing broke if the code was bad. Nobody was betting a deadline on autocomplete.
- ▪July 24, 2026 / #ai-agent The New Agency Stack: How Dev Shops Use Claude, Cursor, and Copilot in Production Manish Shivanandhan Two years ago, AI coding tools were a curiosity.
- ▪Agencies let junior devs experiment with them on internal tools and side projects, the kind of work where nothing broke if the code was bad.
- ▪Nobody was betting a deadline on autocomplete.
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July 24, 2026 / #ai-agent The New Agency Stack: How Dev Shops Use Claude, Cursor, and Copilot in Production Manish Shivanandhan Two years ago, AI coding tools were a curiosity. Agencies let junior devs experiment with them on internal tools and side projects, the kind of work where nothing broke if the code was bad. Client work stayed handwritten. Nobody was betting a deadline on autocomplete. That era is over. The same tools now sit at the centre of how software gets built. Dev shops that once quoted six months for an MVP now quote six weeks, and clients have started asking why anyone would quote more. The tools changed fast.
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