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The practice of using AI tools and language models to write, review, or generate code, reshaping developer workflows and the economics of building software.
Booking Holdings CFO Ewout Steenbergen says AI's returns go to model users who police the bill, with chatbots referring under 1% of room nights. So far, the savings he can point to are inside the company, in customer service and engineering.
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Lorenzo Stoakes' AI-assisted Kbuild patches cut a clean kernel build from over 22 seconds to 15 on one dual-EPYC machine in Phoronix tests. Getting to 10 seconds is a separate bet on next-generation EPYC hardware.
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An ex-LinkedIn product manager writing for a16z demotes the 120-page spec the author once wrote and names the story as a PM's most important output. AI changes how teams code, the author writes, but the story still has to survive being retold without the PM in the room.
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Writing for the Forbes Technology Council, a Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions executive names the posture build on buy and rests it on an unmeasured claim that operating costs are falling more slowly than build costs.
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Justin Johnsen has been a forward-deployed engineer at KPMG for about a year. His account of one engagement puts months of requirements and context work ahead of a build that took roughly a month, then coaching the client's own team.
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An essay by the former Google product manager argues that LLMs lift what a person can produce faster than what they can evaluate. Every curve in it is labelled speculative, and it reports no measurement of the gap.
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Grindr's revenue is on pace to roughly triple since 2022 with little user growth, which puts the next leg on telehealth, travel and a premium tier priced near eleven times what an average paying subscriber spends.
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A Forbes Tech Council argument worth taking seriously: AI cut the cost of the workflow layer, not the compliance-bearing core. That makes breadth a cost line rather than a moat.
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