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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new "death of coding by hand" debate
DHH says 37signals has stopped writing code by hand, citing Claude Opus 4.5 as the inflection point.
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Ten items on AI's effect on software engineering, AI lab safety, fintech infrastructure, and enterprise AI adoption, plus Denver schools, Phish, and a wildcard on ancient animal navigation.
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DHH says 37signals has stopped writing code by hand, citing Claude Opus 4.5 as the inflection point.
OpenAI terminated three safety researchers after an internal review found they mishandled confidential company information.
Google DeepMind's new method embeds verifiable watermarks into AI-designed proteins without affecting their biological function.
Stripe is acquiring embedded-credit platform Parafin, which has financed more than $3 billion for small businesses.
Cognition's Devin coding agent reached a $1 billion revenue run rate, roughly doubling in four months.
Argues the ability to independently ship work is the foundational skill underlying effective engineering leadership.
Anthropic launched Claude Frontier Academy, certifying 10,000 partner-firm engineers to deploy Claude inside large enterprises.
A Denver school board member resigned, citing time and energy consumed by internal board conflict.
Phish opened its fall tour in Atlantic City with rare song revivals and extended jam segues.
Magnetic fossils suggest an unidentified ancient organism navigated using Earth's magnetic field 97 million years ago.