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▶ 23:01 · $COIN · Coinbase's internal coding agent Forge sees adoption rising faster than Claude Code
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The Information

Why SpaceX-Tesla Merger Makes Sense, Airtable’s $1.3B Sale, Claude Code Alternatives

2026-08-05 · 3 company · 4 thematic
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chase packard

Founding partner of Marathon Management Partners, an investment firm analyzing public and private market opportunities in software and technology.

laura bratton

Writes the Applied AI newsletter for The Information, reporting on enterprise AI adoption, coding agents, and frontier model competition.

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“Coinbase in particular told me that they see usage of Forge rising as fast if not faster than cloud code. And so I think that that is significant and they think that it will result in significant cost savings over time um because it lets y…”
—laura bratton

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