DevToolsDigest: Issue #347
This week's digest includes news and resources from Cursor and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
My Favorite Use-case for AI is Writing Logs
One thing that is annoying about logging is that f-strings are great but become repetitive to write if you have to write them over and over, particularly if you’re formatting values or accessing elements of data frames, lists, and nested structures, and particularly if you have to scan your codebase to find those variables.
Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) About AI Evals
Like software engineering, success with AI hinges on how fast you can iterate. If you streamline your evaluation process, all other activities become easy. This is very similar to how tests in software engineering pay massive dividends in the long term despite requiring up-front investment.
Industry Research
Securing LLMs & AI: From the Frontlines of MLSecOps
“AI doesn’t erase traditional security—it just dresses it in weirder clothes.” The explosion of GenAI is changing how devs are building software—and how we secure it. Security professionals have adapted to DevSecOps, but AI introduces a new twist: non-determinism, agentic behavior, and a whole new surface for attack.
Beware the False Dawn of Product Market Fit
Sometimes in early stage startups after you close a few deals you figure you’ve checked the box and can start scaling. Because now you’ve got that everlasting Product / Market Fit that your investors have been hammering you about. But are those early deals really representative of the market?
Developer Venture News
Cursor Snaps Up Koala in Challenge to GitHub Copilot
As part of the deal, Cursor will bring on several of Koala’s top engineers to build out a dedicated enterprise-readiness team. Cursor hopes to evolve from a personal developer tool that engineers quietly use at work and become an enterprise‑wide platform that companies pay large contracts to access.