DevToolsDigest: Issue #349
This week's digest includes news and resources from CircleCI, Catchy, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
The Future of DevOps: AI, Bottlenecks & System Design
During the 2025 Builders Summit, the CTO of CircleCI explored how GenAI is reshaping the software delivery lifecycle. He discusses the evolving role of AI in developer productivity, how teams can adapt to rapid changes in software engineering, and the future of programming languages and system design.
Why Game Devs Don't Merge Files
In the world of gamedev, versioning mistakes can be expensive and irreversible. In the world of business software, merging two files is usually barely an inconvenience. It’s easy to forget that there are universes in technology that follow a fundamentally different approach to meet their distinct needs.
Industry Research
The Enterprise Developer Journey isn’t Linear Anymore
The enterprise developer journey is no longer linear; it’s a collaborative, cross-functional process requiring strategic orchestration from developer marketers. As more roles influence technology decisions, developer marketing must evolve to support distributed decision-making with clarity, flexibility, and precision.
Ephemeral Software
Since personal computers arrived, we've consumed software built by others. We learned their interfaces, adapted to their workflows, clicked where they told us to. This made sense when development cost millions and took years. But what happens when that cost drops to nearly zero and development time shrinks to minutes?
SaaS is Dead
For decades, if you needed a specific software tool, you had two choices: find a one-size-fits-all SaaS product, or write the code yourself (or beg a developer friend). Those days are ending. Thanks to large AI models, we’re now on the cusp of user interfaces built from simple prompts.
Developer Venture News
Cohere Raises $500M to Challenge OpenAI
Cohere has raised $500M and hired former executives from Uber and Meta, as it positions itself as a more secure alternative to rivals. Unlike its competitors, Cohere sells exclusively to businesses, training its model on their internal data and often running it on their premises rather than using external cloud computing services.