{
  "id": 177643,
  "title": "Every software company will become a dev tools company",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/every-software-company-will-become-a-dev-tools-company",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-05T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Stack",
    "slug": "the-new-stack",
    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-ai-harness/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Every software company will soon transform into a dev tools company as machines increasingly oversee the coding process. Engineers will shift focus from writing software to constructing the machines that generate it, evolving from roles like frontend or backend to product engineers and platform engineers. The growing reliance on AI-powered coding tools necessitates more platform engineers to develop and optimize these machines. As a result, platform engineering will encompass the creation and refinement of shared toolchains and workflows that streamline engineering processes, ultimately making each company a dev tools provider.",
  "summary": "If most software will soon be built by machines, the job of software engineers will change: from writing software to The post Every software company will become a dev tools company appeared first on The New Stack .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}