SaaS Metrics
Agentic AI Dominance
Software Development
AI Synthesis & Market Narrative
Agentic AI is rapidly transforming software development, with companies like Affirm retooling operations for agentic workflows and significant investments flowing into AI coding tools. This shift extends beyond basic code generation, creating new categories of work and requiring deeper AI integration.
Correlated Linguistic Patterns
["Retooled for Agentic Software Development"
"SpaceX is betting $60 billion on AI coding startup Cursor"
"Skilled Older Workers Turn To AI Training"
"AI-Infused Development Needs More Than Prompts"
"code generation"]
Curiosity Velocity (60 Days)
WIKIPEDIA API
Tracing the intersection of media narratives and actual public search interest. Dashed line is 7-day SMA.
Driving Media Context
Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week
Author: Daniel Martin, Sr. Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity
Inside the AI startup Elon Musk is betting $60 billion on
The 4-year-old startup just propelled SpaceX in the AI coding race.
Using R to Teach R: Lessons for Software Development
As we approach the decennial (10-year) anniversary since Jumping Rivers was founded in 2016, it’s a good time to reflect on what we have achieved in that tim...
Skilled Older Workers Turn To AI Training To Stay Afloat
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: [Five skilled workers aged 50 and older spoke] to the Guardian about how, after struggling to find wor...
AI-Infused Development Needs More Than Prompts
The current conversation about AI in software development is still happening at the wrong layer. Most of the attention goes to code generation. Can the model...
The IDE Is Dead. Long Live the ADE
Why I told my engineers to delete their IDEs, what happened next, and where software development is actually heading.
AI hype and the quality hangover
As AI accelerates software development, quality assurance must evolve to prevent instability and costly outages.
Software, in a Time of Fear
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being reproduced here with the author’s permission. This 2,800-word essay (a 12-minute read) is ab...