Story
Apple’s AI strategy is becoming a developer story
At WWDC, the consequential shift was the opening of system intelligence to apps.
Topic dossier · Reviewed
Developer Tools
Software used to design, build, test, and operate software.
Editorial scope
Developer Tools
Software used to design, build, test, and operate software.
Essential coverage
Story
Figma wants code to remain design material
Config’s code layers are an attempt to narrow the gap without pretending it can disappear.
Story
Cursor is turning the code editor into a control surface
The product’s real ambition is not faster completion. It is supervised software production.
Story
Lovable’s rise makes product judgment the scarce input
When an interface can produce working software, deciding what deserves to exist becomes the harder work.
Story
Linear is defending calm software in an agentic moment
The issue tracker’s restraint is being tested by a future of machine-created work.
Story
Vercel is competing to host the agent-made web
Deployment speed matters more when software can be generated continuously.
Story
Replit’s agent makes the browser an entire software shop
The promise is broad access; the operational question is how people understand what was built for them.
Story
Supabase turned Postgres into a product movement
The open-source backend shows how a familiar primitive can become a modern developer experience.
Story
Neon is separating the database from the machine
Serverless Postgres makes storage, compute, and branchable environments behave more like software.
Story
Weights & Biases is moving from experiments to agent traces
Observability is expanding from training runs to the behavior of production AI systems.
Story
Cognition is selling the idea of a software teammate
Devin turns the benchmark debate into a question about delegation and review.
Story
The next developer stack includes evaluation by default
Prompting is giving way to traces, datasets, tests, permissions, and rollback.
Feature
Inside the new design-to-code continuum
Figma, Vercel, Lovable, and Cursor are converging on the same unfinished object.
Feature
The long road from research paper to everyday tool
A model becomes a product through a chain of packaging decisions that rarely appear in the benchmark.
Feature
The new economics of making software
Agents compress implementation, but the total cost of ownership moves into review, operations, and maintenance.
Interview
Karri Saarinen on the discipline of calm software
An annotated reading of Linear’s approach to quality, speed, and interface restraint.
Interview
Amjad Masad on making software creation broadly available
A public-record conversation about agents, education, and the browser as a development environment.
Explainer
What does an AI agent actually do?
A practical guide to planning, tools, memory, permissions, and human review.
Explainer
What is a context window—and why is it not memory?
The text a model can see is different from what a product remembers about a person or organization.
Explainer
How does retrieval-augmented generation work?
RAG gives a model selected documents at answer time, but it does not guarantee that the answer is correct.
Explainer
What changes when software can use tools?
The moment a model can send, buy, edit, or deploy, interface design becomes authorization design.
News brief
Apple’s developer conference puts platform access first
WWDC 2026 ran June 8–12 with Apple Intelligence integrated across the program.
Film
Config: objects that become software
An annotated cut of the design-to-code announcements at Figma’s 2026 conference.
Profile
Dylan Field and the shared object
Figma’s enduring idea is that design improves when the work becomes visible to everyone around it.