Meta Debuts AI Coding Agent in Race With OpenAI and Anthropic
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With Meta’s Muse Code entering the ring, coding agents are now a three-horse race among major labs, which will compress pricing and accelerate feature parity. Engineering leaders should treat vendor choice here as a portfolio decision—test at least two agents against your actual repos before standardizing.
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