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Today, we're excited to announce $7.75M in funding for Duckbill, the enterprise FP&A platform that helps enterprises decipher complex cloud billing. "Duckbill is building the platform enterprises need to forecast and govern cloud and AI spend with precision." www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

Didn't realize that #OpenAI and @anthropic.com don't actually have #AIEngineer job listings. Here's what they're looking for instead:

Longer queries means incurring higher token costs. But there’s more to building good AI applications than pinching pennies on tokens. TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) creator @johannschopplich.com explains: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

We Raised $6M to Build the Future of (AI) Cloud Infrastructure Today, and after years of hard work, we’re ecstatic to announce the launch of Unikraft Cloud, a radical, new cloud platform based on years of research and providing exponentially better scalability an...

Today, we're excited to announce $6M in seed funding for
@unikraft.com, the first truly millisecond-native, highly scalable cloud platform. Congratulations to Felipe Huici, Simon Keunzer, Alexander Jung, and the rest of the team! unikraft.com/blog/we-rais...

Today, we're excited to announce $4M in seed funding for Reo.Dev, an AI-native go-to-market platform built for developer-first companies. Congratulations to Achintya Gupta, Piyush Agarwal, Gaurav Jain, and the rest of the Reo team! www.linkedin.com/posts/achint...

Much-needed #DevOps automation for runbooks on desktop, using #contextual #data to make #shell history #searchable. The desktop beta is now open to all:

Introducing Instinct 🐺, a new state-of-the-art open Next Edit model trained by @continue.dev

Runnable with @ollamabot.bsky.social and available today in VS Code

The Humans in the Loop: The Elephant in the Room This Week in AI for Devs: The Article Everyone's Talking About

This week's #AI news for busy #devs covers:

- The report that "95% of AI programs don't make #revenue
- Why Meta is pulling back on hiring
- #GPT5's launch woes (and successes?)
- Intel gets $2B from Softbank, may give up 10% to the Feds

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In this week's #AI news for busy #software #developers:

- OpenAI launches #ChatGPT5, raises $8B, releases first #openweight models since GPT-2
- Why #datacenters and #tokens may bankrupt the AI space
- The developer skillset for AI early adopters

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In Q1, the headlines were all about these enormous billion-dollar investments into data centers, though we've been seeing reports here and there of projects stalling and data centers not getting picked up. With MSFT's recent layoffs, the other shoe(s) seem like they're starting to drop.

The Humans in the Loop: The Reliability Problem This Week in AI for Devs: Giving AI the Power to Delete

This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- How AMZN's #agent #Q was hacked to wipe hard drives
- How Replit accidentally deleted an entire #production #db
- How a human narrowly defeated an AI in a coding contest
- The endless war for AI #Talent

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This week's edition covers:

- Getting #AI #Agents to work
- The architecture of #VibeCoding
- All about #contextengineering
- The war for AI #talent: #META acqui-hires NFDG, #anysphere acqui-hires @anthropic.com Claude Code team

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Today we’re excited to announce our largest raise yet: $180M+ to fuel our mission of backing category-defining founders from Day 0. As AI accelerates software across every axis, we’re doubling down on hands-on support for builders reshaping the future of software. www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

Heavybit: Reinventing Enterprise Infrastructure | Heavybit Why Heavybit is more excited than ever about the future of software and the infrastructure that builds, deploys, and operates it.

Now that we can finally talk about this, thanks to everyone who has made this possible. We're looking for founders who are ready to build a totally new generation of infrastructure to support a whole new species of AI-powered software. www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

The Humans in the Loop: Your Agent Army Awaits This Week in AI for Devs: Will It All Be MCP Agents, All the Time?

This week's #AI news for #devs covers:

- Lots more #MCP and #agent resources
- How David Crawshaw uses agents
- Veteran devs ponder whether AI skeptics are nuts
- Disney and NBC Universal sue Midjourney

and more:
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OpenAI enters enterprise with new features and 3M users | Saanya Ojha posted on the topic | LinkedIn Time to dust off the “OpenAI killed my startup” t-shirts. OpenAI just put on its big boy pants and entered the enterprise - deliberately this time, not just by osmosis from consumer demand. Announced ...

This is probably it. The software endgame is still 7-figure+ enterprise deals. As #OpenAI shifts away from being a nonprofit (and perhaps away from being as close-knit to
@microsoft.com as they once were), the clear goal is to start selling to the enterprise. www.linkedin.com/posts/saanya...

HARD PASS. www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

The Humans in the Loop: I/O, BUILD, Anthropic Dev Day This Week in AI for Devs: Conference Season Breakdown

This week's edition of #AI news for the #software space covers:

- Google I/O 2025, Microsoft Build 2025, Anthropic Developer Day 2025
- How people are *really* using AI #codingassistants
- Opera launches "agentic" browser

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This week's #AI news for #software teams covers:

- #LlamaCon2025: New API and #sec updates
- AI at @rsaconference.bsky.social
- Cognition unveils #DeepWiki
- The White House goes all-in on AI

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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B, with news expected later this week | TechCrunch Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens,

If #AI made #developers obsolete, why is #OpenAI about to pay $3B for @windsurfai.bsky.social, which already makes $40M ARR? Who are the primary customers of #codingassistants generating so much revenue? #Devs are arguably the most important customers in the AI age. techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/o...

The Humans in the Loop: Big Money, No Whammies This Week in AI for Devs: AI's Biggest Fish Get Bigger

This week's #AI news for #devs covers:

- #OpenAI & the biggest funding round ever
- #Softbank to invest $1T in AI factories
- How #eng #leads should think about #LLMs
- #VibeCoding: Threat or menace?

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How to Create Data Pipelines | Heavybit Learn how to create data pipelines and build them for your use case in this introduction guide.

Without a guide, you could be building data pipelines the wrong way, leading to inefficiencies, errors, and costly rework. But don't worry, we've got the guide for you. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

The Humans in the Loop: Nvidia's Long Road This Week in AI for Devs: Headwinds for the Chip Giant

This week in #AI news for devs:

- Nvidia #GTC news: Blackwell, Vera Rubin, Dynamo, Gretel
- @amazonwebservices.bsky.social undercuts H100s 75%
- A GitHub AI repo that tries to fix GitHub repos
- Gemini's top popular use case: Removing watermarks

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The Humans in the Loop: Where's the Money, Lebowski? This Week in AI for Devs: Is AI Making Cents (and Dollars)?

This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- @microsoft.com canceling data centers
- OpenAI's GPT4.5 cost concerns (and $10K/mo software dev agents)
- Meta's paid AI offering
- @continue.dev 1.0 launches to let devs build custom AI coding assistants

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Microsoft is shutting down Skype after a 21-year run. Here's how it lost out to video call rivals Skype is among the world's most long-lasting digital brands. But other mobile apps took off faster, and Skype didn't see the Covid bump that Zoom did.

RIP Skype. That was quite a run. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/m...

Continue Hub + VS Code

Continue 1.0 is here! Combining our open-source IDE extensions with hub.continue.dev makes it frictionless to use custom AI code assistants. Discover the models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks you need to become an amplified developer ✨

Great news for dev teams looking to make the most of AI coding assistants without the black box.

The Humans in the Loop: Why AI Won't Replace Human Coders Yet This Week in AI for Devs: Humans Still Better at Finding Root Causes

This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- #SWELancer's bold experiment on AI models doing actual, for-pay dev work
- META announces first #LlamaCon
- Re-creating #DeepSeekR1 for $30
- France to spend $1B and 1GW nuclear on AI infra

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The Humans in the Loop: DeepSeek Aftermath This Week in AI for Devs: Moving on From the Blast Radius

This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- The @deepseek.bsky.social aftermath
- #Replit's AI app builder going free
- #Gemini 2.0 Flash adds reasoning
- California's AI guardrails bill for kids
- GOOG quietly walking back using AI for defense

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#Developing #software in the #Cloud has upsides, but also downsides like #latency, #authentications, and a lack of #data ownership. #Localfirst development makes the Cloud optional, putting ownership and agency back into the hands of builders. It could completely change how software is built.