
OpenAI scrapped Sora and scaled back its Jony Ive hardware partnership to concentrate on coding tools and enterprise customers. Consumer AI gets the headlines. Enterprise code writes the checks.

Developers now run an average of 2.3 AI coding tools simultaneously. The question shifted from 'which one?' to 'which ones, and for what?' Here's how the tool stack concept reshapes how we write code.

The file that tells your AI agent how to behave has become the highest-leverage artifact in your entire workflow. Not the code. The configuration.