Open MakersClaw What happens inside a company when AI does real work: the pull requests, the releases and the jobs it actually changed.
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Startup Blogs · AI agents
In January 2025 Shopify's Mustafa Ali wrote that React Native's future was bright. Twenty months later he announced the company is rebuilding every app in Swift and Kotlin. Nothing went wrong with the framework. One number in the 2020 decision changed.
Startup Blogs · AI agents
Daniel Blum, a product manager at Melio, says his Claude system handles 70% to 80% of his workday. When he handed his spec-writing tool to other PMs, they struggled with it — because it had been built entirely around how he works. The fix he shipped is more interesting than the system itself.
Startup Blogs · AI agents
As of May 2026, Ramp's own coding agent was raising 75% of the company's merged pull requests. Not because Claude Code was not smart enough — because a laptop could not run more than one or two agent sessions, and what they built can see their telemetry, their feature flags and their prod replica.
Startup Blogs · AI agents
Ryan Carson runs 10 to 15 Devin threads at once and spent $20,000 on agents in a single month. He found product-market fit for Untangle in a meeting with one family law attorney. Both facts come from the same founder, and the second one is the expensive lesson.
Startup Blogs · AI agents
One founder's agents shipped 128 versions of a product nobody used — with CI, bilingual docs and a sponsor policy. Then he did it again: 442 passing tests, five weeks to the first working run, abandoned two days later. The autopsy names a trap nobody had written down.
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