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Friday, February 13, 2026
Spotify's best devs ditched coding for AI
OpenAI's lightweight Codex is racing ahead with Cerebras (yikes, the speed wars are real), while Anthropic just raised $30B at a $380B valuation on the back of $14B in enterprise revenue, proving AI cash flows are no longer theoretical. Meanwhile, Google's upgrading Gemini with Deep Think for serious reasoning chops, but here's the kicker: Spotify's best engineers haven't coded since December, and OpenEnv just showed us that real-world agents are still fumbling the multi-step plays that matter. So here's the question: if AI agents keep failing in production, who's actually buying this stuff?
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OpenAI and Cerebras launched Codex-Spark, a low-latency coding tool powered by custom hardware, demonstrating the industry's shift toward specialized chips for faster AI inference in real-time applications.
Spotify's top developers have stopped writing code directly, instead using AI to automate development via an internal 'Honk' system, enabling remote real-time deployment and unprecedented feature velocity while building defensible AI datasets around music preferences.
Hugging Face
OpenEnv standardizes real-world AI agent evaluation beyond simulations, revealing that agents struggle with multi-step reasoning, ambiguity resolution, and execution reliability despite succeeding at individual tool calls—critical insights for building production-ready agent systems.
Anthropic
Anthropic's $30B Series G fundraise at $380B valuation reflects explosive enterprise adoption of Claude, with $14B run-rate revenue and Claude Code accounting for $2.5B, establishing the company as the clear leader in enterprise AI and agentic coding.
Google upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think to achieve state-of-the-art reasoning across math, physics, and engineering domains, while expanding access through API availability for researchers and enterprises seeking to solve complex, unstructured problems.
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Industry Voices
Asher Spector
Co-founder at Flapping Airplanes
Builds AI-powered creative tools that actually ship, not just research demos.
Thomas Dohmke
Former CEO, Founder at GitHub (former), Entire (current)
Steered GitHub through the Copilot era and knows how AI transforms developer workflows at massive scale.
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