SpaceX just signed up for Cursor across its engineering org. That's a big enterprise win for an AI code editor that, a year ago, was still mostly a power-user toy. When a company shipping rockets standardizes on your IDE, the "AI coding is a fad" argument gets harder to make with a straight face.
Meanwhile Meta is reportedly tracking how much its own engineers use internal AI tools, with usage tied to performance reviews. I get the intent — adoption matters — but measuring keystrokes through Copilot-style tools is a terrible proxy for impact. You'll get gamed dashboards and resentful engineers, not better software.
The third bit I liked from today's TLDR was a piece on packaging design as taste. In a world where every product is one Shopify store away from every other, the bottle, the unboxing, the typography — that's the moat. Software people forget this. Your onboarding screen is your packaging.
Three very different stories, one theme: the tools and surfaces around the work are becoming the work. Pick your editor, pick your metrics, and pick your packaging like they actually matter — because they do.
