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Today, we cover: New trend: building internal vibe-coding apps at mid-sized companies.  Ramp and Stripe built platforms for non-engineers to build internal websites and tools with, and both are taking off in those workplaces. I expect more companies to do the same.   Do us engineers  really  enjoy hard problems? Or do we actually like pattern-matching with backend problems? A provocative post by Cloudflare engineer, Sunil Pai, suggests there are other motives.   New open models launch in the EU and US . Kolibri, Mistral Large 4, and Beam by Reflection AI could challenge China’s dominance in open weight models.   Industry Pulse.  Why Figma doesn’t let any agent use its MCP server; Google Cloud adds Swift support on the server side, Anthropic’s two-week sprint to speed up Claude Code, Coinbase dumps React Native shortly after Shopify announces doing so, Claude Opus 5.5 formats the C: drive, and more.    1. New trend: building internal vibe-coding platforms at mid-sized companies        When I visited Ramp’s headquarters last month in New York, I talked with the four-person development team behind ‘Glass,’ which is Ramp’s “internal Lovable.” This name refers to  (https://lovable.dev/) Lovable.dev, the leading AI vibe-coding tool.  Ramp’s ‘Glass’ is basically a vibe-coding platform for non-engineers to create complex applications which run internally. They can share the applications they make with others to use and modify. This is what the landing page looks like: (https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!11Mp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30dd81a8-f0c6-43d0-9369-ce9d7933fb49_1080x920.png)  ()                 The landing page for Glass. Source: Ramp    Users can connect various internal systems as “connectors” that can then be used as data sources for their apps: (https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ElqN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18bdd157-c23e-4f93-9079-0794b5b8ea2a_1200x1023.png)  ()                 Setting up connectors in Glass    The team showed me a few popular apps, including a custom CRM built by someone in marketing, which had 50+ fields and filters on-screen. It seemed overwhelming to me, but the creator reportedly finds it extremely powerful to use. Since then, I’ve learned that many other mid-sized-and-above companies are building similar “internal Lovables” that don’t usually see the light of day in the outside world. 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