At TED2025 in Vancouver, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discussed the impact of AI on jobs and creativity, suggesting that AI could either replace jobs or serve as a tool for new opportunities. He highlighted the rapid development of autonomous software agents, which could potentially automate coding tasks, and emphasized that AI companies might need to compensate human artists whose works are imitated by AI models. Altman also shared that OpenAI's user base has doubled recently, with 10% of the world now using their systems extensively. He reflected on the future, stating that his children would never be smarter than AI, and announced plans for a powerful open-source model near the frontier of current technology. Eric Schmidt, speaking at the same event, argued that AI is underhyped, pointing out that the focus on ChatGPT overlooks AI's broader capabilities, such as planning, reasoning, and executing workflows autonomously. He highlighted the significant energy requirements for AI, noting that the U.S. would need 90 gigawatts of additional power, equivalent to 90 nuclear power plants, to meet these demands. OpenAI is reportedly working on an 'Agentic Software Engineer' (A-SWE), a tool that could autonomously build applications, handle pull requests, conduct quality assurance, fix bugs, and write documentation, marking a shift in software development. In the coding arena, Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google has been praised for its performance and cost-effectiveness, scoring 72.9% on the Aider polyglot coding benchmark at a cost of $6, outperforming other models including OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini. It is noted for its ability to handle single-shot coding prompts and its effectiveness in debugging and refactoring larger codebases.