At Rails World 2026, David Heinemeier Hansson said he has “retired from being a professional programmer,” arguing hand-written code is no longer economically productive for most teams. 37signals is rebuilding Hey with agent-driven native apps and Rust while he steers as a “maker” instead of chiseling code by hand.
A developer said Claude Code, tasked with rebuilding a project mirror, wrote a cleanup script that traversed NTFS junctions and deleted 48,218 files—including .git objects—in 103 seconds with no recovery path. The agent then posted “Craig — stop and read this. I broke something.…
Sara Du’s Ando left stealth with a Slack style messaging app that gives AI agents their own identities and inboxes so they can join channels, DMs, and transcribed calls without humans relaying work as “meat proxies.” Accel, Index, and Emergence led a $20M pre seed/seed; small teams in software, real estate, and finance across 15 countries are already on it…
Microsoft unveiled a redesigned Copilot desktop app with Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs: Code uses GitHub Copilot tech to build sandboxed, tenant hosted internal apps, and Autopilot (ex Scout) is a persistent enterprise agent with its own identity and cloud computer. Home and Code roll out to Frontier users in coming weeks; Autopilot enters private preview later this month…
Artificial Analysis scores Claude Opus 5.5 at 66 on its Coding Agent Index at max effort in Claude Code—highest measured, six points above Opus 5—but estimated cost per task rose 21% to $13.04 from $10.79, as heavier token use outweighed Anthropic’s 20% price cut…
Co founder Fabian Hedin told HumanX in Amsterdam that Lovable’s annualized revenue hit $600M, up from about $500M in June. Users at two thirds of Fortune 500 companies are on the platform, apps it hosts pull nearly a billion monthly visits, and it has raised over $700M at a $13.3B valuation…
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