Topic

Build versus buy for AI tooling

Whether the 'buy, don't build' convention holds for AI developer tools, given companies like Ramp, Block, Stripe and Shopify constructing in-house harnesses.

Current clusters

security1 distinct publisher

A survey of 250-plus SOC practitioners puts 135 minutes between an alert firing and an answer

Prophet Security's report benchmarks attacker breakout at 29 minutes, which makes the hour of queue time before anyone opens an alert worth more than the 25 minutes AI takes off the investigation. The sample is the vendor's own.

Publishers:thehackernews.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption48
Hype gap+34
Incentives88

leadership2 distinct publishers

At Ramp, 75% of merged PRs come from a harness no vendor sold it

Block, Stripe and Shopify run in-house coding agents too. What Ramp built is not a model but a credentialed development box, and that is the part procurement cannot order.

Publishers:modal.comnewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption74