Build, Buy, Or Wait

It’s a weird exciting time in software engineering. LLMs advance. We get better at using them. Background agents hit critical mass in January 2026 with Stripe’s Minions , and Ramp’s background agents . Cursor launched computer use in their cloud agents and automations in February and March 2026. Anthropic has been pushing hooking Claude Code up to GitHub Actions for a while . At work we’ve been…