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.
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GitHub's AI-coding economics landed today — a new $100 Copilot Max plan and 'flex allotments' tied to model pricing arrive the same week Pragmatic Engineer documents AI load breaking GitHub's own infrastructure.
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.
Anthropic books all of xAI's Colossus capacity — the most consequential story of the week is a compute deal between two companies that supposedly hate each other.
Anthropic is buying compute from xAI and SpaceX — the three companies most loudly competing for AGI are now openly trading the infrastructure none of them can build fast enough alone.