2025 was the year of maturation. Many things announced in 2024 became operational this year. Seven trends that touched our projects — the real ones, not the slide-deck ones.
1. Agentic AI for internal tasks
Clients stopped asking for "a chatbot" and started asking for "an agent that does X". MCP (launched late 2024) enabled integrations that seemed distant in January. Three out of eight clients have an operational AI agent on internal data in 2025.
2. Prompt caching as architecture, not gadget
After Claude 4.5 and GPT-4o updates, structuring prompts for cache hits became mandatory, not optional. Average client savings: 70-90%.
3. NIS2 moves from "practice" to culture
Companies that took NIS2 seriously in 2024 now have 2x better security setups. Those who treated it as bureaucracy still have the same issues — plus the paperwork.
4. Mature edge runtime
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Bun Deploy: in 2025 they became mature enough for serious projects. Not default, but real options for specific cases.
5. ARM in production
Hetzner ARM, AWS Graviton, Apple Silicon everywhere. Real cost savings, equal-or-better performance vs x86 on typical loads. Anyone who didn't try ARM in 2025 is overpaying for no reason.
6. SBOM becomes standard
NIS2 and market pressure imposed it. Every new CI pipeline we set up has native SBOM. Like lint: not debatable.
7. ESG enters tenders
Five out of eight clients received ESG requests from large customers in 2025. For four of them we implemented reporting infrastructure. New work, new domain for many SMEs.
What did NOT enter
- "Web3" / blockchain comeback: zero serious requests.
- Enterprise VR/AR: no Apple Vision Pro or Quest projects.
- Quantum computing: still not on our radar.
2025 was less noisy than 2024 but more productive. What consolidated is what will stay.