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Aug 7, 2025
When AI becomes your top committer
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Looks like the AI gold rush hit its first credit crunch as Windsurf sold for parts and Claude Code axed the unlimited plan. Meanwhile small models are beating frontier on cost, Anthropic overtook OpenAI in enterprise and Ona now ships more code than any engineer at Gitpod.
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TL;DR
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Ona surpasses Claude Code as Gitpod's top contributor: Gitpod's privacy-first agent Ona now commits more code than any human or AI tool, enabling 3x productivity gains even from mobile devices.
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AI subscription models are breaking: Windsurf sold for parts and Claude Code rolled back unlimited tiers as agents consume 100-1000x more tokens than expected, forcing companies to rethink flat-rate pricing or face unsustainable losses.
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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in enterprise: According to a Menlo Ventures survey Anthropic now commands 32% enterprise market share vs OpenAI's 25%, as code generation becomes AI's first $1.9B killer app category.
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Cut AI costs by 10x with small models: Fine-tuned small LLMs deliver frontier performance at fraction of the price - Kimi K2 matches Claude Sonnet 4's code quality at $0.53 vs $5 per task according to Composio benchmarks.
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Windsurf and Claude Code are seeing that flat-rate subscriptions break when agents can run for minutes to hours and consume 100–1000x more tokens than expected.
Enterprises are consolidating on frontier, closed-source models for performance, upgrading in-place rather than chasing cheaper options, while spend shifts from training to inference and open-source adoption stalls.
Kimi K2 delivers comparable code quality at ~10x lower cost on similar token usage, but it is slow. Both Kimi and Claude Sonnet can scaffold a Next.js chat app but struggle with MCP/tool calling on first pass, so choose based on whether your bottleneck is budget or latency.
Fine-tune small LLMs on curated big-model outputs to match or surpass large-model performance at 5–30x lower cost and 2–4x faster latency; use them for extraction, navigation, multi-hop RAG, and tool use, then route edge cases to a frontier model.
A practical, tool-agnostic guide to stand up day-to-day agent workflows: structure your `CLAUDE.md`-style project docs, curate safe tool allowlists, plug in MCP servers, use slash commands, run TDD and plan–code–commit loops, automate with headless mode, and scale with multi-agent checklists and worktrees.
ICYMI: Upcoming launches & new stories
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Ona has surpassed Claude Code to become the top committer in Gitpod's monorepo. Gitpod is seeing nearly 3x more productivity as engineers are even making commits with Ona whilst at the airport from their phone.
By moving to Gitpod, GSR replaced fragile VDIs and custom dev boxes with instant, compliant workspaces for quants, traders, and analysts.
This is an intro course to Cloud Development Environments, we cover everything from security benefits to building a business case.
Early access is now live! Ona operates across complex, multi-repo codebases, executes tasks in parallel, while maintaining full auditability.
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Platform Day @ KubeCon NA (Atlanta, Nov 10)
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AWS re:Invent (Las Vegas, Dec 1–6)
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May your builds be green and your bugs be merely interesting,
Your friends at Gitpod
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