DevToolsDigest: Issue #361
This week's digest includes news and resources from Sourcegraph, Anthropic and more.
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The Week in DevTools
Sourcegraph and Amp Are Becoming Separate Companies
Why not one company (Sourcegraph) with two products (code search and Amp)? Sourcegraph is a mission-critical piece of AI infrastructure software. Whereas Amp needs to remain on the frontier, exploring what’s possible with models and agents.
Best Developer Productivity Tools for Engineering Leaders
The market for developer productivity tools has become increasingly crowded and confusing, with platforms measuring wildly different metrics, from DORA metrics to developer happiness surveys.
Industry Research
ANTM Recap: Will Agents Take Over Data Modeling?
If you’re in the data world and hearing about this for the first time, you should pay attention. This isn’t another “AI will replace us” hot take. This is about understanding where we actually are with agentic systems in real-world data work.
Abstraction is the Wrong Way to Simplify Configuration
In the context of configuration, “abstraction” usually refers to encapsulating a set configuration generation artifacts, such as templates, and exposing a defined set of input parameters.
Developer Venture News
Anthropic Acquires Bun as Claude Code Reaches $1B
As an all-in-one toolkit—combining runtime, package manager, bundler, and test runner—Bun has become essential infrastructure for AI-led software engineering, helping developers build and test applications at unprecedented velocity.
Ragas Team Emerges from Stealth as Vibrant Labs
Two years ago, the creators of Ragas set out to improve AI systems and now Vibrant Labs is emerging out of stealth to tackle evaluating and enabling training of long-horizon agents using simulated environments.