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Engineers at Lagora use developer tools such as Cloud Code and Cursor.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Lagora uses approximately 10 different AI models, selecting the best one for each task based on latency and performance, with performance being the most important factor.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon hopes to see more European and American open-source models emerge, as he believes a duopoly or monopoly on foundation models would be a negative outcome.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Lagora's developer experience team builds custom tools, including a background coding agent that allows each engineer to run 10 different agents concurrently.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon predicts Lagora's revenue will be above $250 million by the end of the current year.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon believes the future role of engineers will shift from writing code to higher-level systems design, systems architecture, and meta-engineering to make AI agents more effective.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon predicts Lagora's engineering team will grow to approximately 270 people by the end of 2027.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon believes acquiring companies is a faster way to hire groups of A-level talent than individual recruiting.
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Jun 6
At Lagora, Product Managers use AI to prototype ideas very quickly, allowing them to test with users before involving engineering.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Lagora has an internal "AI enablement" team that builds internal tools, including custom versions of HR, talent acquisition, and payroll systems, through a process called "vibe coding."
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Due to underestimating growth, Lagora now builds all its systems to scale to 100 times their current usage, an increase from a previous standard of 10 times.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Over 50% of the code at Lagora is generated by AI tools, with Claude and Cursor being the top two contributors.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon believes the best available AI model for a given task changes almost bi-weekly, with Lagora switching between models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Lagora's engineering team has grown to approximately 80 people, significantly exceeding an initial projection of capping out at 20 engineers.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon believes that Cursor could have had a compelling story as an independent, model-agnostic company and was saddened by its acquisition by Groq.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon asserts that AI has made writing code significantly cheaper, shifting the primary bottleneck in software development from coding to code review and product definition.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon predicts that AI code review will become the dominant form of review, removing it as a bottleneck in software development.
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Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon believes the widespread use of AI-generated code creates a new generation of security threats because threat actors can now operate with extreme efficiency.
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Jun 6
Lagora uses AI agents to improve the efficiency of its incident response and postmortem processes.
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Jun 6
Jacob Lorentzon believes building an engineering organization in 2026 will be very different from 2024 due to AI-driven productivity gains.
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Jacob Lorentzon
Jun 6
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