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The Pulse #162: Even fewer middle managers and more flexible teams?

Also: Anthropic bans third-party devs while Codex embraces them, Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, a lot more software gets created with AI, and more

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Gergely Orosz
Feb 19, 2026
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