Pega Harnesses Best Practices and AI Coding Agents to Build Apps with Mission-Critical Reliability

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 8, 2026--

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the enterprise AI software company for mission-critical work, today at PegaWorld® launched Pega Infinity Studio ™, an intuitive, AI-powered development environment for quickly building mission-critical applications without AI coding risks or extended learning curves.

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Pega Infinity Studio infuses the architectural and industry best practices of the Pega Blueprint AI ™ workflow design agent into a reimagined, AI-first developer interface. The embedded AI Assistant intuitively guides developers with Pega AI or their own AI coding agent – including GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude AI, and OpenAI Codex. This allows developers to quickly and confidently build industrial-strength apps rooted in domain expertise and scalable architectural patterns.

Market Context: Building fast is just table stakes

AI coding tools have reset the bar for how fast developers can churn out code. But generating code is just a small part of delivering and operating a reliable enterprise application. Processes and workflows must be designed and aligned with stakeholder teams, and apps must be secure and validated to run at scale. Research confirms AI‑generated code introduces 1.7x more defects than human‑written code, leaving development teams stuck between the allure of AI speed and the reality of enterprise demands.

A Closer Look: How Pega Blueprint AI powers Pega Infinity Studio

Pega Infinity Studio embeds the power of Pega Blueprint AI, the workflow design agent that helps teams reimagine their workflows and systems. Now Pega developers can pull those best practices and design recommendations directly into the build experience. It guides developers to optimize performance, maximize reuse, and simplify future changes with minimal training. The path from innovative design to live production app has never been faster or more reliable:

Extend Pega power to any outside agent

In addition to the AI Assistant inside Pega Infinity Studio, developers can also use command-line interfaces (CLIs) to access, understand, and update Pega apps. Pega Infinity™ 26 includes 10 new MCP tools and more than 50 agent skills which automate the building, reviewing, testing, and updating of Pega apps, all following Pega best practices. This streamlines the path to integrating Pega workflows and decisions into any application. For example, a developer can use their AI coding tool CLI to build a new back-end data service and then publish it into Pega, all from the same interface.

Availability: Experience trustworthy agentic development

Pega Infinity Studio will be available with the launch of the full Pega Infinity 26 suite expected in Q3. Visit www.pega.com/products/platform/build-with-ai for more information.

The solutions are on display at PegaWorld ®, the annual user conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas being held this week. Watch Pega Chief Product Officer Kerim Akgonul’s keynote address and Pega Infinity Studio demo live at approximately 10:15 am Pacific Time on Monday, June 8, or watch the replay later, at www.pegaworld.com.

Quotes & Commentary

“The industry has overfocused on how quickly AI can generate code, but the enterprises we speak with care more about whether they can actually trust what gets deployed to deliver meaningful business value,” said Kerim Akgonul, chief product officer, Pega. “Pega Infinity Studio brings agentic speed together with enterprise discipline, so Pega development teams can innovate freely with AI while maintaining the standards and best practices required for transforming mission‑critical applications and workflows.”

“AI coding agents on their own cannot deliver enterprise-grade applications," said Prashant Gaonkar, SVP, enterprise platforms, Cognizant. "Industrializing them requires deep industry knowledge, human-AI handshake in workflows, and operational discipline. That is the AI Builder approach in practice. Pega Infinity Studio gives our developers a powerful build environment; Cognizant brings the process IP and accumulated patterns from more than 30 Pega Blueprints that lead into client outcomes."

“Enterprises today are under increasing pressure to accelerate software development cycles while ensuring reliability, governance, and long-term scalability of mission-critical applications,” said Gopikrishnan Konnanath, global head, digital enterprise applications, Tech Mahindra. “As organizations adopt AI-assisted development, the industry is also recognizing the growing need to balance development speed with architectural integrity, security, and operational resilience. Solutions such as Pega Infinity Studio represent an important step toward enabling enterprises to industrialize AI-powered application development with greater confidence by combining AI-driven productivity with workflow intelligence, best practices, and enterprise-grade governance. Tech Mahindra is confident that this approach will empower organizations reduce complexity, improve developer efficiency, and accelerate the delivery of scalable digital transformation initiatives across the enterprise ecosystem.”

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This screenshot shows the new AI Assistant in Pega Infinity Studio working on a task from an implementation plan to complete the application build process.

HAVANA (AP) — A worsening fuel crisis across Cuba is testing the island's famed “almendrones,” the vintage American cars that serve as vital shared taxis and embody the island’s ingenuity and endurance.

These days, many of the iconic gas-guzzling antique cars sit idle, casualties of fuel shortages that have gripped Cuba since January and that Cuban officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade.

Outside his modest concrete-block home on a dirt road in Las Minas, a town of about 2,000 people on the outskirts of Havana, Diriel Valdez is restoring a 1951 Chevrolet Deluxe. The burgundy body is intact and the original engine still works. Finding fuel for it, however, is another matter.

Valdez is among thousands of Cubans waiting for fuel through a government reservation app that, for many, has become a symbol of the shortages it was designed to manage.

“I signed up in February ... I’m still somewhere around number 2,800,” said the 27-year-old who runs an auto body shop from his home.

The reward for the wait would be 20 liters (5.3 gallons) of gasoline — enough fuel, Valdez says, to get him to the beach.

The name almendrón comes from the Spanish word for almond, a reference to the rounded shape of the large American sedans imported before Cuba’s 1959 revolution.

For decades, sanctions, shortages and limited imports forced Cuban mechanics to become masters of improvisation. Engines were swapped, bodies rebuilt and replacement parts sourced from wherever they could be found.

On a recent night in Havana, as another blackout darkened much of the city, taxi driver Leonardo Daniel González steered a friend’s glowing purple 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster through the darkness.

“These cars are passed down from generation to generation,” said González, 30. “I had one that belonged to my great-grandfather. It went from him to my grandfather, then to my father, and then to me.”

Cuba is experiencing one of its most severe energy crises in years. The population, already battered by decades of economic crises and shortages, is now navigating daily blackouts that can last up to 20 hours in some parts of the island.

The country produces only about 40% of the fuel it consumes and depends heavily on imports to keep its power plants running and its transportation network moving.

Since January, the Trump administration has tightened sanctions on Cuba as an element of its ongoing pressure campaign against the island’s communist government. Trump also threatened tariffs on countries that sell or transport oil to Cuba, further complicating the island’s efforts to secure fuel supplies. Just a single Russian tanker has delivered oil to the island nation since then.

Standing beside his Chevrolet in Las Minas, Valdez, who runs the auto body shop, said the fuel shortage is also affecting his livelihood. He learned auto-body work from his stepfather and has been repairing classic cars since he was 13.

“People don’t want to do major repairs anymore,” he said. “A lot of them have their cars parked. They don’t have much hope that they’ll be circulating the way they used to.”

As gasoline becomes harder to obtain, many drivers are turning to Cuba’s black market, where fuel can often be found more quickly, though at significantly higher prices that can reach up to $8 per liter ($30 per gallon).

Omar Everleny Pérez, a former economist at the University of Havana’s Center of Cuban Economic Studies, said the country’s transportation system still depends heavily on almendrones because modern vehicles remain out of reach for most Cubans.

“They’ve been vital to the transportation of ordinary Cubans,” he said. “Not only in Havana but throughout the country.”

New vehicles have become available in Cuba in recent years, but at prices far beyond the reach of most state-sector workers, Pérez said. That has helped keep the aging American cars on the road, even as a different future is beginning to emerge on Cuba’s streets.

Electric motorcycles imported from China have become increasingly common. Small electric vehicles are also appearing, aided by a growing network of solar-powered charging stations promoted by the government as part of its push toward renewable energy.

Back in Havana, González is not ready to write off the almendrones. Despite the lack of fuel and a sharp decline in tourism, he can still make a living off the old Chevrolet.

“There are ... several WhatsApp groups for us to find rides and so on,” said González. “But tourism in Cuba is in very bad shape.”

Ariel Fernández in Havana contributed to this report.

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FILE - Drivers wait in a long line to enter a gas station in Bacuranao near Havana, Cuba, Jan. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

FILE - A man walks past a gas station that has run out of fuel, located near the U.S Embassy, pictured in the background, in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

People traverse a street in Havana, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Jorge Luis Banos)

Workers repair the sign at the Grand Aston Hotel in Havana, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)