What it actually costs to build your own internal developer platform over five years, and why most “we’ll just build

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I recently argued with a software factory provider, whose position was that coding agents cannot be evaluated. Their reasoning was

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AI is great at making individuals faster, but the surrounding systems are then slowing everything right back down. This result

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Every engineering org I’ve talked to this year has some version of the same chart. Seat activations climbing. Token spend

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Your team has moved VMs to Kubernetes with KubeVirt. The workloads are running. The team is gaining confidence. Then someone

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OpenAI, AWS, Cursor, GitHub and Microsoft have backed Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a portable package format for reusable components that extends

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“It’s unrealistic to expect an admin to have context over how every skill in a company should be optimally performing,”

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In the early days of Claude Code, it felt like you either had to approve everything the coding agent did

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OpenAI is reducing work on Astra after internal testing indicated the upcoming model may have reached a cybersecurity limit that no

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⁠Security researchers this week disclosed an npm supply-chain attack affecting more than 400 packages, including projects connected to Keyv and

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Meta this week announced Muse Code, its first coding agent designed to tackle complex software engineering tasks, like planning changes,

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Enterprise engineering teams are converging on a common architecture for AI-assisted software development. Coinbase, Shopify, and Ramp have each built

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“AI kill switch” entered the public conversation because it gives people a simple way to talk about a complex fear. 

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Teams testing prompts in ChatGPT before moving them to Codex or Work may notice the difference on longer tasks. OpenAI

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Cloudflare launched its CloudflareOS open-source AI workspace platform this week, promising every employee a secure workspace equipped with AI tools

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AWS on Thursday launched Dogwood, an open-source policy language and reference interpreter that lets developers govern sequences of AI agent

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Choosing a coding agent may soon no longer mean having to pick a new editor or terminal, too. That scenario

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Microsoft spent the first phase of the AI coding boom pushing its engineers to use the tools. Now it wants

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Doist CTO Gonçalo Silva doesn’t pretend to know where AI is headed. The pace of change has made it harder

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Mergers, acquisitions, and the steady churn of business and technology initiatives are creating something nobody asked for: Duplicate infrastructure and

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Consider a platform team managing a shared GPU cluster with a mix of B200s, H100s, and recently added B300s. Every

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A developer supervising four coding agents has four changes in flight at once, each in its own git worktree. That

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At the start of 2025, investors wondered whether Google could keep pace with OpenAI. By December, Alphabet was completing its

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Meta is asking thousands of its software engineers to help train its internal AI coding tools by simply fixing code,

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If most software will soon be built by machines, the job of software engineers will change: from writing software to

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Thibault Sottiaux, who leads core products at OpenAI, believes that today’s version of Codex will seem outdated before the year

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OpenAI shared a big research update this week, announcing that an internal version of Astra, its next frontier model, created

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For the past two years, most of the conversations about AI and software development have centered on security: How do

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Alibaba this week announced the launch of Qwen3.8-Max. The most powerful model in the Qwen series to date, this multimodal

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When Nvidia announced NOOA (Object-Oriented Agents) last week, it signaled a broader shift in agent development: The harness around a

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