Circling back in the new year
Good morning legends. If you were celebrating yesterday, I hope the mulled wine hangover isn’t too bad. We’re wrapping up our countdown of the 15 products that defined tech in 2025.
The final five

Good morning legends. If you were celebrating yesterday, I hope the mulled wine hangover isn’t too bad. We’re wrapping up our countdown of the 15 products that defined tech in 2025.
Not everything on this list is here because it made work faster. Some, like Stickerbox are here because they were fun, unexpected, and still managed to say something important about where AI is showing up.Â
Sora 2
This made AI video feel usable at scale. Faster iteration changed how ideas got pitched and approved, and that shift rippled quickly.
Cursor 2.0
The editor turned into a coordination layer. Multiple attempts running in parallel, with the human deciding what survives. That way of working spread fast.
Gemini 3
The real impact here was placement. Models mattered more when they showed up naturally inside products people were already using.
Google Antigravity
This focused on the unglamorous parts of agent work: tracking, coordination, and accountability. Those pieces are what turn experiments into systems.
Stickerbox
A small box that turns spoken ideas into physical stickers. It made an outsized splash because it showed AI as something playful and tangible, not another screen demanding attention.
That’s the full set. Fifteen products that either changed how people worked or stuck in everyone’s head long after launch, which is usually the better signal.
Your agents stopped answering and started doing
Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.
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