DevToolsDigest: Issue #387
This week's digest includes news & resources from Scarf, Replit, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
Open Source AI Popularity Leaderboard
People building open source AI projects can use this leaderboard when deciding which providers or runtimes to support. AI providers and researchers can use this list to see how they're ranking in the OSS space.
Replit’s CEO on Building a Company That Can Run Itself
This year, the meteoric rise of vibe coding has transformed the company's fortunes. Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work.
Reality Check: AI for Security
We suddenly have AI-native products, agents getting access to real systems, employees throwing data into models, new trust boundaries, and an entirely new set of things security teams need to understand.
Industry Research
AI Coding Got Faster. Why Didn’t Engineering?
AI is great at making individuals faster, but the surrounding systems are then slowing everything right back down. This result or, rather, lack thereof is amplified by company size and pull request size.
Control and Complexity: Tension in Systems Design
Without taking a step back and looking at the mindset behind the design of the system in which you operate, you’re likely to get somewhat incoherent (as in “clashing”/“conflicting,” not “nonsensical”) measures and policies.
You Thought Delegating to AI Agents Meant Less Work
You start small, from a task to a whole multi-step job. You expected to hand the work over and do less. That is the gap: the guardrails came with the delegation, and they are yours to build.