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1Password's monolith-refactor postmortem is the most useful data point of the day: agents delivered a 20–30% lift on the hard parts, but only after humans built the scaffolding and caught the speculation.

OpenAI launches a separate Deployment Company with 19 outside investors and acquires Tomoro for 150 forward-deployed engineers — codifying that frontier-AI value now lives in the integration layer, not the model.

The AI-productivity backlash crosses from blog discourse into operational reality: RPCS3 starts banning undisclosed-AI PRs, two top engineering essays argue the 10x productivity story collapses once maintenance is priced in, and the NYT corrects an article where an AI summary was rendered as a fabricated quote.