Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?
SaaStr
JANUARY 11, 2025
"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI."
The Rise of the Agent Manager
Tom Tunguz
JULY 13, 2025
In software engineering, Github’s pull requests or Linear tickets serve this purpose. Very productive AI software engineers manage 10-15 agents by specifying 10-15 tasks in detail, sending them to an AI, waiting until completion & then reviewing the work.
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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus
SaaStr
JULY 5, 2025
Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations. ‘Look, here’s enterprise software. What are you doing? Why a dozen?
AI is On Fire. But Will There Be Enough Decacorn Exits?
SaaStr
JULY 22, 2025
Consider these acceleration case studies: Cognition AI : Reached $2 billion valuation in just 5 months after founding in November 2023, becoming “the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer” xAI : Elon Musk’s AI venture achieved a $24 billion valuation in under 10 months, breaking records for rapid value creation (..)
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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.
Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2025
” Vincent predicts: “Designers will be able to create software, engineers will be able to create designs, and all of these roles are going to start blending together.” ” Figma envisions a “role collapse.”
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How Much of Customer Support Will AI Replace? Gartner Says 80%
SaaStr
MARCH 12, 2025
So while AI for coding and software engineering has seen some of the most explosive start-ups, from Codeium to Loveable to Poolside to Claude and OpenAi’s own releases here and more, just as big if quieter has been the change to contact center and support.
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Budgeting for AI in Your Startup
Tom Tunguz
JULY 9, 2025
First, the average salary for a software engineer in Silicon Valley. Second is the total cost of AI used by that engineer. Third, the number of agents an engineer can manage. 😳😅 So let’s update the table and assume another $1000 per month per engineer.
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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing
SaaStr
MARCH 18, 2025
Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. Project Selection: Where Enterprises Go Wrong Many companies stumble by deploying AI in high-risk, customer-facing applications first (like chatbots). This is exactly backward.
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June 30, 2025: The Date Where If Your Team Hasn’t Rolled Out Truly Great AI Into Production Yet… It’s Time to Reboot the Team
SaaStr
JUNE 23, 2025
The CTO who said “we don’t need AI people, our engineers can figure it out “ is now 12 months behind companies that hired AI-native talent in early 2024. Traditional software engineering skills and AI engineering skills have meaningful overlap, but they’re not the same thing.
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The Hidden Truth About Vibe Coding in SaaS: Most B2B Software Was Never Hard to Build
SaaStr
JUNE 10, 2025
Social media is full of hot takes about AI replacing developers, the death of software engineering, and whether we’re all doomed or destined for greatness. The Brutal Math of Pre-AI Development What did B2B software look like before AI coding tools? The Vibe Coding discourse has gotten loud. It had been done before.
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Top PLG Product Manager Roles (+ Candidate Spotlight)
User Pilot
MAY 27, 2025
Notion: Product Manager, Growth Notion is on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can’t build or modify the software we use on them every day.
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GTM 147: RevOps Is a Hidden Growth Engine with Navin Persaud, VP of RevOps at 1Password
Sales Hacker
MAY 20, 2025
My son, my son who’s a software engineer, shows me examples of, Hey, this is how AI can simplify some of the really mundane things that really drown you and Rev ops people in their day to day and free you from those shackles to do the more important things. The most amazing thing when. Holy crap.
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CRO Confidential: How Codium Built A Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine with VP of Worldwide Sales, Graham Moreno
SaaStr
MARCH 5, 2025
Recently valued at over $1 billion , Codium is proving that AI-driven software development is not just the futureits the present. AI-Powered Coding is Driving Massive Productivity Gains: Codiums AI assistant is not just a flashy toolits fundamentally transforming software development. The real impact?
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The White Collar Revolution
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73 Software engineers were the first to benefit with Copilot. Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Sales Managers 0.4
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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights
Crafty CTO
JUNE 18, 2025
And if you actually do that, you know, what I described also sounds a lot like good software engineering practice. And I think that going even deeper to just like making it possible to just move so much faster as a company. That’s I think where we’re headed. Swyx: How do you think that Codex changes the way we code?
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Top Retention and Churn Product Manager Roles (+ Candidate Spotlight)
User Pilot
APRIL 24, 2025
They believe the traditional services delivery model is being disrupted, and that in the age of AI, every company should be able to get up and running on their CRM and deploy software to their teams within days.
5 Keys Behind Klaviyo’s Path to $1B+ ARR in E-commerce Marketing with CEO Andrew Bialecki
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Prior to founding Klaviyo, Andrew worked in software engineering and product development, bringing a deep technical understanding to the marketing automation space. Under his leadership, Klaviyo has grown to nearly $1B in ARR and successfully went public in September 2023.
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What Is an ACH API and How Does It Work?
Stax
JUNE 23, 2025
TL;DR An ACH API allows businesses to automate bank-to-bank payments—like ACH debits, credits, and recurring payments—by integrating directly with the ACH network via software. According to Stax’s Lead Software Engineer Austin Kelsch, an ACH API is a “subset of the broader payment API category” and is used mainly to facilitate ACH transfers.
5 AI Chatbots Tested: Which One Works Best for Content Creators?
Buffer Resources
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Bizi is the side project of Joe Delgado, a software engineer here at Buffer. However, it didn’t make the list as you can’t upload files to it, striking it out in my book. It’s also generally less advanced in long-form content generation and is more of a true chatbot. It’s currently free to use.
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5 Interesting Learnings from Atlassian at $5.4 Billion in ARR
SaaStr
MAY 14, 2025
So Atlassian is the developer software engine that just keep going: $5.4 Billion in ARR Growing 14% — and importantly, predicting 19% growth for Q4’25 500+ $1m Customers 300,000+ Customers total 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.
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Gordian Knots in Software Engineering
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 8, 2024
Lines of code or number of commits focus on components of the engineering process. Perhaps, latency optimization is the analogue in managing software engineering teams. Latency encompasses the entire chain. Alexander the Great cut through the Gordian knot with his sword.
The Convergence of Data & Software Engineering in the Age of AI
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Data teams receive tickets from their internal customers & develop data products that serve both internal & external users, much like a classic product management & engineering team. Data teams architect their systems in a modular way, paralleling the microservices movement in software design.
Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact
TechEmpower SaaS
MARCH 4, 2024
In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.
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Run Less Software
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.
The Fastest Growing Sectors of Startup Fundraising in 2020
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 17, 2021
Quality Assurance is truly about the automation of certain parts of software testing. The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home. Life insurance and emergency medicine certainly fit the COVID-19 narrative.
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Best Free Website Builders
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 12, 2021
Before modern and more intuitive website builders, coders and software engineers had to spend hours designing web pages, adding long […]. You followed the recipe perfectly and viola! Somehow, everything aligned. When it comes to building a website, it can work the same way.
Employee Spotlight: Lucas Salisbury, Software Engineer, and Innovative Chef
FastSpring
APRIL 29, 2020
I am currently a Software Engineer at FastSpring. I really enjoyed customizing my own profile, and that’s what drew me into wanting to learn more about how coding and how software development works. The post Employee Spotlight: Lucas Salisbury, Software Engineer, and Innovative Chef appeared first on FastSpring.
How Much More Efficient Should a SaaS Startup Be When Using AI?
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 1, 2023
Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Engineering 25% 40% 10% Overall - - 13% See assumptions here 1 This thought experiment highlights a few ideas to validate : AI initiatives focused on cost-reduction should start with engineering.
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Calling future software engineers: Learn about UL’s equity, diversity and inclusion scholarship, funded by Intercom
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 15, 2022
We’re excited to sponsor a new equity, diversity, and inclusion scholarship for students of the University of Limerick’s Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course – valued at €10,000. Software engineering will play a crucial role in the future of business, society, and even our planet. Practical experience.
Biotech Revolution with Software Engineering Daily
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 19, 2024
The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our ability to engineer biology for wide-ranging applications.”
Managing Data as Product : Office Hours with Philip Zelitchenko
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances. I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe data and software engineering practices converge.
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The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
SaaStr
DECEMBER 8, 2023
At SaaStr Annual , he was joined by Jordan Tigani, Founder and CEO of Mother Duck Maggie Hott, GTM at OpenAI , and Sharon Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini to discuss the new architecture for building Software-as-a-Service applications with data and machine learning at their core. There’s tension between the two.
Trends in the Post-Modern Data Stack
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In the past, software engineering teams and data teams haven’t collaborated, but data pipelines & AI endpoints rapidly becoming essential parts of software, they now work together much more closely. AI is changing the structure of data teams. New BI systems will enable both. Vectors power AI systems.
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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team
TechEmpower SaaS
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players! And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time.
Data Product Teams : Best Practices for a Modern Data Team
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Data teams are becoming software engineering teams. I learned a tremendous amount about the way modern data teams, who leverage software engineering disciplines, operate. The video is here. For Philip, leading the data team is about focusing on the data products that drive meaningful value to the company.
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Infinicept
OCTOBER 12, 2021
We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.
When AI Becomes Table Stakes
Tom Tunguz
JULY 4, 2022
Last week, I installed Github’s Copilot , a machine learning tool that helps engineers write software. Today, top grandmasters spar with supercomputer-powered chess engines to improve their play. Those sentiments echo in the articles about the end of software engineering that popped up after the Copilot launch.
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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?
Tom Tunguz
MAY 19, 2018
Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations. Voice isn’t broadly used to input data.
The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 28, 2022
Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure.
The 37% Rule: How to Decide When to Stop Wondering and Start Deciding
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 5, 2019
But I had forgotten about it until I listened to the author on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Earlier this year, I read Algorithms to Live By, a book that explains how to use insights from computer science in daily life. One of the rules is the 37% rule. It’s an important rule because it’s broadly applicable.
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How to start your career as a software engineer in a SAAS company
Agile Payments
MAY 5, 2020
How to Start Your Career as a Software Engineer in a SAAS Company.
Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan joined WebEx as one of the first several software engineers. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. billion, and Yuan continued with the company as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering.
Five Predictions for 2022
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Meanwhile, once there are enough infrastructure and consumer companies to serve, software businesses pop up, in this case to serve DAOs. Large software companies accelerated growth this year, despite their scale reinforcing the notion that users write data into systems but rarely delete it. Or a personalized email to a sales prospect.
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