AI Coding 2026: How AI agentic development changed the way we deliver tech projects

In 2026, a Norwegian construction firm replaced two hours of manual renovation estimating with a thirty-minute AI-driven review — using six historical examples to teach the rules. Notes from LANARS in Oslo on what actually changed in software this year: coding agents as teammates, small senior teams shipping like big ones, and the constraint that is no longer engineering capacity. Two case studies (Lomundal, SelectAI), a practical 90-day plan for SMBs, and the risks that bite in production.