Anthropic published The AI-Native SDLC Playbook last week saying, “code is no longer the bottleneck.” I agree. All year long, I’ve been asking myself the questions that naturally follow: What becomes the bottleneck next? If models can generate code faster and faster, what actually determines whether a change is good enough to ship? If teams are going to use multiple models and agents, what has to remain durable underneath them? And as agents become more autonomous, how do people understand and steer what hundreds of them are doing at once? My view: faster code generation is already exposing the next constraints. Solving them is where the next wave of value in agentic engineering will come from. Verification, context, execution infrastructure and governance start to matter more than model choice. Put differently: when implementation becomes abundant, trust becomes scarce. I wrote down my view of what comes next: When Code Is Abundant about.gitlab.com/blog/when-c…

@gitlab also signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter. For most companies, software is core IP. How you manage it, and how you protect your business and customers against security, privacy, and competitive threats, is one of the most strategic decisions a company makes. That decision shouldn't be locked to one cloud or one model vendor. GitLab is the only platform that's genuinely cloud neutral and model neutral. You decide where your code lives. You decide which model does the work. That choice only holds up if the model market stays open. I think the future is a mix of models matched to the task, each tuned for the best price and performance for the customer. Open models keep that market honest. They drive real competition on performance and price, and they keep control in the customer's hands.

GitLab Duo Agent Platform agents can now call foundation models through Vertex AI, including Gemini. Every agent action is governed by the same controls as your human developers, and you can choose to have usage count toward your existing Google Cloud commitments.