Uber's agentic AI investments now generate 70% of PRs and doubled engineer code output year-over-year.
“70% of our PRs now either by local or cloud agents. And all of this led to twice the number of lines of code per engineer year-over-year.”
code-generation
8 tracked signals on code-generation.
Poolside AI's Model Factory ships models from pre-training to release in eight weeks.
“would rather live in a world with 100 foundation model companies than five even if Poolside were one of the five”
Coding agents will make general-purpose platforms obsolete by generating bespoke implementations from specifications on demand.
“The product is no longer the implementation. The product is the specification, the protocol.”
Vercel CEO argues AI's killer app is code generation, but quality and picking the right things to build now differentiate and beget trust.
“the killer app of AI in my view is coding”
Claude Fable 5 built a complete playable game from a 2022 tweet screenshot in one session
AI-written code is rising from ~10% today toward 40-50% by year-end, and AI is increasingly the harness, not just the model
“this is my argument around why AI engineering will be the last job, why you guys all have job security and why you guys will take over the world”
Claude Opus 5.5 generates pixel art animations from photos via simple prompts
“I had seen some buzz around how good Claude Opus 5.5 was at creating pixel art animations.”
Simon Willison used Claude to recreate a 1983 BASIC game from a PDF into playable JavaScript
“Build a vanilla JS artifact that exactly recreates the game Mad House from this book, make sure it's mobile friendly and has a suitable retro aesthetic”