AI Agents Now Diagnosing and Fixing Code While You Nap

KEY POINTS

•Dash0, a New York-based software company founded by Mirko Novakovic, announced it is acquiring Berlin startup Polar Signals.
•Polar Signals’ continuous profiling tech will be integrated into Dash0’s platform to automatically identify and fix inefficient code.
•The deal, which pushes Dash0's valuation to $1 billion, includes adopting Polar’s 'Great Lakes' database for better data handling.

In a daring move to make developers obsolete (or at least less grumpy), New York’s Dash0—founded by Mirko Novakovic, the guy who turned Instana into IBM’s cloud pet—snapped up Berlin startup Polar Signals on a Monday. Polar Signals, being the proud keepers of 'continuous profiling' (basically software’s Fitbit tracking every CPU calorie and memory hiccup), is getting thrown into Dash0’s AI stew. Dash0’s mission: unleash Agent0 and AutoTune, AI overlords that hunt and auto-fix buggy code like Neanderthals hunting mammoths. With 750 customers including Taco Bell and The Telegraph, and a fresh unicorn status from a $110 million Series B, the tech world is watching if Dash0’s AI will finally answer the age-old question: can robots do our jobs better before coffee kicks in? Also, they’re swapping out ClickHouse for Polar’s snazzy 'Great Lakes' database, ensuring lots more data to spy on developers’ midnight coding regrets.