DevToolsDigest: Issue #365
This week's digest includes news and resources from Omnara, Continue, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
One Year of AX
"The initial adoption of the term AX when I coined it about a year ago was dominated by developer tool founders or builders. This year we’ll start to see the term appeal much more widely."
Beyond the Desk: How Programming is Changing
Writing software has always been a synchronous act. You sat down at a computer and translated your thoughts into code line by line, remaining fully responsible for every change as it happened. Progress depended on your presence.
Airtable Jumps Into the AI Agent Game with Superagent
It might sound crazy to some, launching an entirely new product line while your flagship business has shed two-thirds of its paper value. But Howie Liu, the founder and CEO of Airtable, suggests it’s the sanest thing he could do.
Industry Research
Continuous AI: The Manifesto
Developers are drowning in AI-generated code. The role of the software engineer is shifting from prompting AI to designing processes that run automatically. And LLMs are the new glue code for engineering workflows.
Software Survival 3.0
Karpathy describes a future where AI can build pretty much anything on demand, and we’ve already seen early evidence of this in the form of emerging pressure on SaaS companies, as the buy vs build calculus changes.
Developer Venture News
Anthropic Closes Latest Funding Round Above $10B
Anthropic just closed one of the largest AI funding rounds in history, pulling in between $10 billion and $15 billion at a $350 billion valuation. But the eye-popping haul could climb even higher if Microsoft and Nvidia.