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ITG and the expensive art of making shopping easy
A beautiful storefront can conceal a very awkward business. ITG works on the software beneath the sale, where a slow page, a broken handoff, or an untested checkout can quietly send the customer elsewhere.
Dylan Farnsworth and the Fine Art of Knowing What to Throw Away
A trained oboist became a software operator, then let AI write the code. His real craft is knowing when to conduct, when to listen, and when to throw a bad session away.
Don Pansacola Is Building the Boring Parts of Money - and the Strange Future of Work
The NextPay co-founder wrote the ledger, hid a few Easter eggs, and helped turn a pandemic pivot into Philippine payment infrastructure. Now he is testing whether an engineering team can share more than a codebase.
Test Double Sold Itself to Its Employees - Then Went Hunting for Bigger Software Problems
The Ohio consultancy built a business by rescuing developers from bad incentives. Now its employee-owners are betting that the useful edge in AI-era software is judgment, not faster typing.
Cursor
Cursor is an AI-first code editor built by Anysphere, a San Francisco startup founded in 2022 by four MIT graduates. Originally a fork of Visual Studio Code, Cursor has evolved into a full agent-based development platform where autonomous AI handles everything from autocomplete to end-to-end feature building. With $2B+ in annualised revenue, over half the Fortune 500 as customers, and a valuation that reached $29.3B after its Series D in November 2025, Cursor has become the fastest-growing SaaS company ever from $1M to $500M ARR - turning the IDE from a code-writing tool into an AI orchestration layer.