FlexiLingo
The battle to replace Github, building assembly lines for software, and why no one finishes projects anymore
When an AI can write 90 percent of a codebase in minutes, why is finishing the project harder than ever? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew explore the recent string of GitHub outages and why the surge in autonomous agents is forcing teams to rethink where they host their code. They once again dive into the emerging trend of software factories, breaking down how engineering leaders are turning chaotic AI pull requests into streamlined assembly lines. Finally, they share tactical advice for "landing the plane" and pushing past scope creep to deliver the grueling final fraction of...
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Alright, Andrew, another week, another Life Beyond Token Maxing story. I love it. This time it's from a Linear B customer, which I love even more. In fact, past dev interrupted guests as well, so super.com.
We were all really excited internally about this really awesome article from their head of AI over at super.com. Just talking about how they stopped counting tokens. So yeah, I guess chalk it up yet another company out there that, you know, they start with those
token maxing leaderboards. They have fun for a day or two maybe. And then they immediately start thinking like, well, how do we, how do we actually make sure we're getting value out of this?
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