During the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, the people who benefited most were not those who came West to dig treasure out of the ground, but those who sold them the tools to do that.
Rob Whiteley believes that the organization he runs, Coder, is positioned to be a “picks and shovels” company for the great AI rush of the 2020s.
Whiteley, Coder’s CEO, discussed the evolving landscape of AI and development tools — and his company’s new open source contribution, Mux —…

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