Who Even Codes Anymore?

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Knowledge base

“Compound Engineering: How Every Codes With Agents” by Dan Shipper and Kieran Klaassen/Chain of Thought: The old assumption in engineering was that each feature makes the next one harder to build; compound engineering flips that. Every bug, failed test, and a-ha moment gets documented so agents learn from it. Now, a single developer can now do the work of five. Read this for Every’s full engineering playbook—and download the compound engineering plugin to run the exact workflow yourself.

“Vibe Check: GPT-5.2 Is an Incremental Upgrade” by Katie Parrott/Vibe Check: OpenAI’s newest release is what Dan Shipper calls a solid quality-of-life improvement—not enough to make a huge difference in everyday chat. Read this to see why GPT-5.2 is worth exploring for longer analytical tasks, but Opus 4.5 remains the workhorse for creativity, intelligence, and autonomy.

“How Every Is Harnessing the World-changing Shift of Opus 4.5” by Katie Parrott/Source Code: Dan and Kieran Klaassen walked 400 Every subscribers through what they’ve learned from Opus 4.5 in our latest Claude Code Camp—and the takeaway is simple: Your brain is now the bottleneck. Read this for five patterns you can apply today.

“Two Ways to Win in the Post-software Era” by Sumeet Singh/Thesis: If you’re building AI tools the way you would’ve built SaaS a decade ago, you’re about to get crushed. Sumeet Singh argues that every AI wrapper bolted onto an existing workflow is 18 months from irrelevance. Read this to learn about the two routes to durability: Build what’s needed to make models better or invent entirely new workflows that only AI makes possible.

“How This Venture Capitalist Sees Into the Post-software Future” by Rhea Purohit/Thesis: Every Friday and Saturday morning, Sumeet Singh sits in a Brooklyn cafe with his iPad—his designated deep-reading tool—hunting for the rabbit holes that open into the future. Read this for the three-step process he uses to make bets like the one he made in Sardine, which raised a Series C at 10 times his entry valuation.