In my September 2026 LinkedIn series I also covered broader market dynamics and product‑level insights beyond the earlier engineering metrics.
- VC‑driven M&A: Bending Spoons targets “desperate to sell” firms under VC pressure.
And ones that are still successful businesses, but VC funding pushes them to seek ANY exit, after growth stalls, and investors eventually demand cash returns.
Open source is a big reason why Codex supports working with other AI models.
Claude Code can only be used with Anthropic’s models, whereas Codex is usable with any model, not just OpenAI’s.
Maintenance tasks like dependency upgrades can be handled by a model blasting through the codebase within a couple of hours.
is up to 89x faster than any other competitor.
Meta is paying Slack probably around $20M/year just to use their chat product.
- Codex’s open‑source stance lets it work with any LLM, unlike Claude Code which is Anthropic‑locked.
- Agent‑driven maintenance can finish dependency upgrades within a few hours.
- turbopuffer delivered a 95 % DB‑cost reduction for Cursor.
- Entire claims up to 89× speed advantage.
- Meta pays roughly $20 M / yr for Slack for its 70 K‑seat workforce.
- The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter now exceeds 1.1 M subscribers.
In September 2026 I shared a series of LinkedIn posts highlighting engineering achievements, productivity metrics, and market moves. I discussed Peter Mattis’s background, B‑tree and Swiss‑Table optimizations, the rise of agent‑enhanced development, and notable acquisitions by Bending Spoons.
Peter Mattis shipped ~100 K lines of code per year up to 2022.
1,551 people downloaded the free ebook “Building Mobile Apps at Scale”.
Agent‑generated GitHub PRs grew 9× from January to September 2026.
Bending Spoons acquired Miro for $1.3 B and Airtable for $1.2 B.