DevToolsDigest: Issue #391
This week's digest includes news & resources from Overmind, DuckLabs, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
Introducing Overmind. The Training Platform for Agents.
The only way to stay competitive is to build your own model on data only you have. Point Overmind at your codebase, and it scans every line, turning production traces into a trained, benchmarked, deployable SLM in hours.
The Harness Is the Thing
The last eighteen months have been a particular window of relentless improvement. Tab completions have given way to agentic coding which has given way to managing your agents with a harness.
AI, Tools and Transformation
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead.
Industry Research
The Superdark Factory
Consider a special kind of factory, an extreme kind of factory: a self-guided factory that continuously makes its own decisions about what to produce. It is a factory that determines its own goals and its own objectives.
How The Leading AI Companies Do Product
"I’ve watched 30+ Interviews with the people behind Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Here’s what they agree on, what they don’t and how all that compares to what I’m seeing on the ground."
Budding vs. Splitting: Growing An Engineering Org
One group of twelve becomes two groups of six, each with a lead, a charter, and a roadmap. Later those groups become four, then eight. The org chart branches.
Developer Venture News
Bending Spoons to Buy Miro for $1.36B
The company has built a reputation for acquiring and restructuring digital businesses, pursuing a strategy that blends technology operations with a private equity-style acquisition model.
AWS Acquires DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
The DuckLabs team brings world-class database engineering expertise and a track record of building software that developers love. Together, they'll make AWS analytics faster, simpler, and more cost-effective for customers.