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[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

Big announcement for job seekers in the Devtool marketing space 👋

We’ve launched the Hackmamba Devtool Jobs portal!

We regularly hear from technical writers, DevRel, and growth professionals who struggle to find devtools roles without checking multiple places. Jobs are scattered across communities, LinkedIn, and company career pages, making the search slow and inconsistent.

To solve this, we built a dedicated portal that brings relevant devtool roles into one place.

Listings are curated from communities, LinkedIn Jobs, and our own network, so you can quickly see what’s open and decide what’s worth exploring.

We refresh the listings every Friday.

Bookmark it to stay updated on the latest Devtool Jobs 💜

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

@AlexFinn we can finally test run all of the bots and see who wins in a pvp battle

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

We ran a survey to learn what makes good developer video content.

Here are the insights and a checklist you can use: https://t.co/ANOo7IINmo

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

We asked 101 developers how they like their technical videos.

They’re fine with 20–30 minutes. They want technical breakdowns, actual code, and a GitHub repo they can mess around with after.

Just don’t sneak a product ad into the tutorial :)

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

There’s a difference between being around tech and actually knowing the thing.

You can know the vocabulary and follow every AI launch, but consuming the conversation isn’t the same as doing the work.

You don’t need to code to belong in tech. Just don’t confuse proximity to tech with experience in it.

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

If agents are writing the code, does a 10× larger codebase still matter?

We gave Campfire’s Rails app and its agent-written Rust port the same feature, then compared agent time, token usage, and the review.

The Rust app is faster. The change wasn’t cheaper.

[DHH @dhh]

Campfire rewrite journey continues. I let the clankers run for a day, go through all the PRs that were submitted, verify the work, merge what was ready, and then ask it to bring all architectural improvements to each implementation. Good old C is now in the lead!

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

Argon and Astra are taking two different approaches to long-running coding agents.

Argon gives the agent more room to keep working. Astra carries notes across context windows.

The real test is whether either approach stops an agent from repeating mistakes it already made.

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

Opened the feed and somehow everyone suddenly writes exactly the same. Yay?

AI posts. AI comments. AI replies to the AI comments.

At this point, the dead internet theory is starting to look less like a theory.

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

It's friday, means you can spend the weekend job searching (who touches grass anyway right?)

Dropzone AI is looking for a Senior Technical Writer
Partiful is looking for a Community Support Specialist
Theori is looking for a Technical Marketer

and more: https://t.co/QT6qYKlKrN

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

@emmashouldwrite me, using both:

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

chat, are we team OpenAI or Anthropic?

two days ago, oct 7: GPT-6 rolls out Intelligent UI to everyone on ChatGPT. Charts, calculators, and visual breakdowns get built inside the chat

yesterday oct 8: Anthropic ships Claude Dashboards (BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, Salesforce) and Claude Motion, in beta.

Two launches in like two days. Where are y’all placing your bets (why not both amarite?)

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

We put GPT Sol and Opus head-to-head to see how they’d handle the same coding task, then compared the cost and speed.

Both solved it. Sol was cheaper, Opus was faster.

So the winner is… depends what you’re paying for.

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

Coding agents need context that survives beyond a single session.

We tested the same task in the terminal and desktop apps. The apps picked things back up quickly, while the terminal had to reconstruct what was happening.

Maybe coding agents need a different interface.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

I haven’t touched Claude Code or Codex CLI in a while.

The terminal era is over imo. It's the wrong interface for coding agents. Tabs are ephemeral, but context is persistent, and managing 30 tabs is pure cognitive overhead.

I don’t really need an IDE like Cursor either. I rarely navigate the whole codebase anymore.

The new primitive is the agent, not the file.

(Codex desktop app is the best agentic UI for now. But we’re still early.)

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

I haven’t touched Claude Code or Codex CLI in a while.

The terminal era is over imo. It's the wrong interface for coding agents. Tabs are ephemeral, but context is persistent, and managing 30 tabs is pure cognitive overhead.

I don’t really need an IDE like Cursor either. I rarely navigate the whole codebase anymore.

The new primitive is the agent, not the file.

(Codex desktop app is the best agentic UI for now. But we’re still early.)

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

How to make 6 figures as a technical writer:

Quetzalli will show you how to become the consultant companies compete to hire

She's our guest on the next Off the Docs: Think Like an Architect

Tue Oct 7
5:30 PM CEST / 9 PM IST / 4:30 PM WAT
register here https://t.co/rD9zh6btLF

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

900+ technical writers, devs, and creators, all of us building in the same room.

Inside the Hackmamba Creators Community we run Off the Docs sessions and writing sprints.

You don't have to network. You show up, share your work, make friends, and have fun.

Join us: https://t.co/UN6YmEbqd3

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

So what are your thoughts on OpenAI DevDay? 👀

Anyone try dots?

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

Looking for work?👀

The weekend is the perfect time to browse new opportunities on our dev tool job board!

Go hunt https://t.co/ZZYCVUU56z

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@claudeai @TessaMero 🔥🔥

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

Congratulations to the Mistral team!

Being Europe’s largest equity raised in just three years is such an achievement.

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Today marks a major step for Mistral: we’re announcing a €3B Series D, the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company, just three years after launch.

[Hackmamba @hackmamba]

@MistralAI Big congratulations to the team!🔥 Europe is proud.