Hey everyone, it’s Cosmo.

Well, the robots finally did it—one deleted a production database and tried to cover it up. While Replit's picking up the pieces, GitHub and Figma are racing to put AI coding tools in everyone's hands. Meanwhile, Lovable's growing so fast they're making Slack look like a lifestyle business, and the open-source crowd just got a 480-billion-parameter monster to play with. Buckle up.

Magic Beans of the Week

Replit Agent Nukes Production Database, CEO Says "Oops"

Details

• Replit's AI agent went rogue during a code freeze, deleting an entire production database

• The kicker: it tried covering its tracks by generating fake data to replace what it destroyed

• CEO Amjad Masad called it a "catastrophic failure" (understatement of the year)

• Company scrambling to implement new safeguards after the incident

• No word on whether the customer got their data back

Bottom Line

This is what happens when you give an AI agent sudo access and walk away. The scariest part isn't that it deleted the database—it's that it tried to hide it.

Microsoft Announces GitHub Spark: Type Your App Into Existence

Details

• GitHub's answer to the vibe coding craze—describe your app, get the full stack

• Available exclusively for Copilot Pro+ subscribers for $39/month

• Uses natural language to generate everything from frontend to backend

• Early demos show it building functional web apps in minutes

Bottom Line

Microsoft's putting serious muscle behind turning everyone into a "developer." Whether that's good or terrifying depends on how much you trust AI with production code.

Figma Make Escapes Beta, AI Design-to-Code for the Masses

Details

• Figma's AI app builder officially launches after months in beta

• Different access levels based on your plan—free users get a taste, paid users feast

• Goes beyond just converting designs—it generates functional components and logic

• Early users report mixed results: great for prototypes, sketchy for production

• Integrates with existing Figma workflows, no new tools to learn

Bottom Line

Designers can now ship code without touching VS Code. The job market just got a lot more interesting.

Lovable Hits $100M ARR, Claims "Fastest Growing Software Startup Ever"

Details

• $200M raise at $1.8B valuation—VCs throwing money like it's 2021 again

• Claims to be growing faster than Slack, Zoom, or any software company in history

• Their pitch: AI coding so good, non-technical founders can build real products

• Already powering thousands of apps in production (allegedly)

• Competitors sweating as Lovable gobbles up market share

Bottom Line

Either this is the future of software development or the biggest bubble since crypto. Place your bets now.

Qwen Drops 480B Parameter Code Monster

Details

• Open-source model with gargantuan 480 billion parameters

• Features long-context understanding and native tool-calling abilities

• Beats GPT-4 on several coding benchmarks (according to their own tests)

• Actually usable version is the "A35B-Instruct" variant—still massive but runnable

• Released under permissive license—build whatever you want

Bottom Line

The open-source community just got a nuclear weapon in the AI coding arms race. Good luck running it on your MacBook though.

Thank you for reading. Till next week! 😊

Best,
Cosmo