Walmart's Code Puppy dodges AI vendor lock-in, spreading coding to 75,000 staff
Model-agnostic by design, Walmart's internal vibe-coding tool grew from 1,000 to nearly 75,000 users in a year, with 496,000 open-source downloads.
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Model-agnostic by design, Walmart's internal vibe-coding tool grew from 1,000 to nearly 75,000 users in a year, with 496,000 open-source downloads.
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