What's new in DevEx - May 15

No separate contracts or API keys required. You get the complete feature set (Managed Agents, web search, code execution, Files API, Skills, MCP connector, prompt caching, and the Claude Console) authenticated via IAM credentials, with CloudTrail audit logs and consolidated AWS billing across 18+ regions.

OpenAI launched a $4B+ joint venture to send FDEs directly inside enterprises. Within hours, Anthropic announced a competing deployment platform: both frontier labs are now racing to own the enterprise implementation layer; a direct result of many enterprises struggling to implement AI internally at scale.

The report shows how to reduce your spending by stripping unused MCP tool registrations, moving data fetching to pre-agent CLI steps, and adding relevance gates that skip the agent entirely when not needed. The techniques are model-agnostic and applicable to any agentic pipeline you're running today.

Cursor 3.3 shipped in-editor PR review (inline threads, commit history, file tree) and "Build in Parallel" - async subagents running independent tasks simultaneously. Cursor 3.4 added cloud dev environments: multi-repo support, Dockerfile setup with build secrets, 70% faster cached builds, and audit logs.

All individual Copilot plans shift to GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01) on June 1, with a new Max tier for high-volume workloads and a flex allotment that adjusts as model pricing evolves. GitHub won’t be the last tool to make the switch. As token consumption continues to rise beyond what flat per-seat pricing can absorb, AI providers will continue shifting the cost exposure back to users.

Neon disabled full-page writes, a Postgres durability mechanism made redundant by their own storage layer, delivering up to 5x faster writes, 2x lower read tail latencies, and a 94% drop in WAL traffic, applied globally with no restarts or code changes. When the storage layer is yours to control, you can make guarantees that standard Postgres simply can't.

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