This issue highlights five shifts in AI-driven software engineering from Cursor’s Developer Habits Report, along with SpaceX’s record $75 billion IPO and Jeff Bezos’s new startup Prometheus aiming to build an “artificial general engineer.” It also covers advances in vertical AI agents, NASA’s improved Deep Space Network for Artemis II, cute home robots by Familiar Machines, Homebrew 6.0.0 updates, and perspectives on AI’s limits in replacing developers.

• SpaceX's IPO raised $75 billion with demand 4x the shares offered, potentially pushing Musk past trillionaire status
• Bezos's new startup Prometheus aims to build an "artificial general engineer" for designing chips, cars, and rockets, feeding into Amazon and Blue Origin
• Cursor's report on millions of coding sessions finds AI is speeding up individual developers but widening a power-user gap, while reliable vertical agents require structured memory hierarchies instead of dumping data into prompts
• AI still can't replace engineers because writing code was never the bottleneck—defining requirements, verifying results, and owning outcomes remain human tasks