Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled YoY in December 2025, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender” testing Claude Opus 4.5
Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic's Claude Code to the launch of generative AI
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t... Paul Mozur / @paulmozur : Instead of exporting oil, the kingdom wants to export computing power. The idea is coders in Europe, Africa, and Asia connect to Saudi data c...
OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models
If You Ask Nicely Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack : OpenAI Launches a New GPT-5 Model for Its Codex Coding Agent David Gewirtz / ZDNET : OpenAI has new agentic coding partner for you now: GPT-5-Cod...
A profile of Swedish AI coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup ever, reaching $100M+ in annualized revenue in eight months
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE | For decades coders have rushed to ship the minimum viable product. Lovable CEO Anton Osika (right) …
Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, has become a Chinese AI startup hub, and the suburb Liangzhu has emerged as a hot spot for coders in their 20s and 30s
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Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more
“What will AI mean for jobs?” may be the single most-asked question about the technology category that dominates Silicon Valley, pop culture, and our politics. Bluesky: @midimyers.com , @larsonlee , @...
Docs: Microsoft's recent layoffs of 6,000 workers hit software engineers the hardest, making up 40%+ of the ~2,000 positions cut in its home state of Washington
In Microsoft's home state of Washington, software engineering was by far the largest single job category to receive layoff notices … Bluesky: @glinden and @mattmday . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace...
How “AI-native” startups, which integrate AI into their workflows and team structures, are trying to scale faster with fewer employees and consolidate tasks
The most novel idea is that you don't have to hire as many specialists like designers & coders because PMs can vibe code to prototype features. … LinkedIn: Hunter Walk : Scott Belsky was one of my fir...
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
Repli CEO Amjad Masad said that since AI will take over coders in future, one should not waste time on studying coding now.
Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements into a “text-like” format that AI agents can better understand, raised a $17M seed led by Felicis
They've raised $17M in seed funding and I'm curious about the business model as it's Open Source and anyone can host it. Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Browser Use extracts the struc...