Three weeks ago, Becca Combe MIRP CertRP was happily sourcing candidates from a hammock in the Caribbean… right up until the hook gave way, she hit the floor, severed a vein, and her MacBook screen exploded. Multiple hospital trips, a wrecked laptop, and trying to recruit left‑handed with an injured left arm later, she’s still here matching people with jobs in devtools companies and keeping Develocity moving.
That mix of chaos and persistence feels about right for this week’s devtools world too: funding for AI coding tools that measure real impact, agents that actually ship code from customer signals, and new products that plug your browser, IDE, and data together instead of adding more noise. Plus, a standout AI Product Lead role in Palo Alto for anyone who wants to be in the thick of it.
⚒️ DevTools Opportunity of the Week
AI Product Technical Lead (Frontend‑leaning) | Hybrid, Palo Alto | $300k base
Join a Series B developer tools company experiencing phenomenal growth. Lead AI-powered product experiences from ideation to production, integrating cutting-edge models into polished workflows. Mentor team, experiment and optimize for user impact, working across React, TypeScript, Node.js, and LLMs. Looking for 6+ years experience with strong frontend skills, LLM prompting expertise, and ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces.
>Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
🏆 Funding Wins
Milestone raises $10M to measure AI coding ROI
Milestone secured a $10 million seed round led by Heavybit and Hanaco Ventures. The platform plugs into your full engineering stack to track how AI coding tools affect productivity, quality, and maintainability. For teams rolling out Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code at scale, Milestone turns “AI adoption” into hard numbers instead of anecdotes. Read announcement here.
Code Metal lands $36.5M to move beyond “vibe coding”
Code Metal raised a $36.5 million Series A led by Accel to build AI coding tools that understand architecture and business logic, not just autocomplete functions. Positioned as a step beyond today’s “vibe coding” assistants, Code Metal is targeting enterprise use cases where tools need to reason about existing codebases, data flow, and deployment pipelines. The bet is that architectural intelligence will matter more than token‑level pattern matching. Read announcement here.
Sim.ai secures $7M to power agentic workflows
Sim.ai closed a $7 million Series A led by Standard Capital. Sim.ai (YC X25) offers an open‑source, visual canvas for designing, testing, and deploying agentic workflows, now used by 60,000 developers and 100 plus companies. It aims to give teams Figma‑like control over multi‑agent systems without forcing them into brittle, SDK‑heavy stacks. Read announcement here.
🚀 Other DevTools News
Inspector connects browser context directly into your AI IDE
Inspector (YC F25), founded by Michael Klikushin and Quentin Romero Lauro, launches. Inspector is an AI IDE for front‑end that helps engineers ship faster by automating the painful work of collecting context between the live browser and the codebase. You can click elements on the page, capture focused screenshots and logs, and feed that directly into coding agents instead of juggling Figma, DevTools, and your editor. READ MORE HERE.
Lancey launches coding agent driven by customer signals
Lancey has launched as an autonomous coding agent built for customer‑centric engineering teams. It ingests feedback from Slack, Zendesk, Intercom, email and calls, maps that to your codebase, then drafts ready‑to‑merge pull requests for high‑impact bugs and feature requests. Instead of yet another generic AI pair programmer, Lancey tries to close the loop between what customers actually ask for and what gets merged into main. Congrats to Adi Patel and Abhi Patel on the launch. FIND OUT MORE HERE.
Reindeer launches Cursor‑style IDE for SQL workflows
Reindeer launched last week as a Cursor-like experience for databases. It understands your schema, generates production‑ready SQL, autocompletes queries, and fixes issues without leaving your IDE. Built out of frustration with constant tool‑ switching, Reindeer makes complex 50 to 100 line queries feel like normal coding, with a free tier for easy integration into existing workflows. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT ON PRODUCT HUNT.
👀 What’s going on at Develocity?
Three weeks ago, I was working from home, not at my desk and not on the sofa, but in my hammock.
Living in the Caribbean means I get the luxury of switching work spots depending on my mood… and when I’m deep in a meaty search, the hammock is usually my favourite place to knukle down.
Until the hook slipped.
One second I was sourcing candidates, the next, I’d hit the ground, severed a vein in my elbow, blood everywhere, multiple hospital visits… and to top it off, my MacBook laptop screen shattered (and replacing it was not cheap).
Suddenly, the simplest things became complicated, brushing my teeth, cooking, typing. And when you’re left-handed and you injure your dominant arm? Trust me… you feel it!
Here’s the part I didn’t expect…..
Read the full post here: Becca’s Post
Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery for you Becca!
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