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Jane Street is building a formal methods team after 25 years of skepticism. The firm previously considered formal methods too expensive, citing seL4's 25 person-years to verify 8,700 lines of C. Agentic coding changed the cost calculus, making formal methods more practical for the trading firm's software.

A developer found that agentic coding tools like Antigravity 2.0 and Cursor 3.0 transformed their role from typist to system architect. After using these tools, opening a traditional IDE for a routine change felt inadequate. The shift made standard IDEs like VS Code, Zed, and PyCharm feel unusable.
North released Mini Code, an agentic coding model for developers. The model is designed to assist with code generation and software development tasks. It operates as an autonomous agent that can handle complex coding workflows without constant human intervention.
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