The Breakpoint [2025-11-04] - The future of software engineering?
Meow world, welcome back to The Breakpoint, a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt.
The latest
Recent dev-first products launched on the site
@Cursor 2.0 introduces a new coding model, Composer, that should complete coding tasks "in under 30 seconds"
@GitHub launched Mission Control, a unified place to assign, monitor, and manage Copilot coding agent tasks
@LLM Stats compares API models by benchmarks, cost, and capabilities
@Ultracite v6 includes the latest Biome improvements
@v0 by Vercel launched an iOS app to let you vibe code apps on the go
The future of software engineering?
Justin put it out loud: "If code is easier to generate, what roles become the real bottleneck now?"
From the discussion, there's a consensus towards a need for tasteful, opinionated engineers, i.e. people who could "frame the why behind building," as Adejoke writes.
The job board
Recent dev-first products launched on the site—that are actively hiring. No affiliation, most of them are hiring across the board.
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Trace-AI
@LLM Stats Looks like an interesting tool... will try
@nocturnalknight amazing! adding @jonathanchavez to the loop
Love this take! I'm seeing a trend where the most impactful engineers are storytellers, those who can justify why something matters before diving into how to build it. Tools like Cursor and Copilot just free me to think more deeply about meaning.