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Build or buy: TaskRabbit rebuilt, Midi Health refused
Two founders, two opposite infrastructure calls. Leah Solivan paid for a full platform rebuild at TaskRabbit. Joanna Strober decided Midi Health's best engineering decision was the one it never made.
№ 204 · 8 September 2026
Build versus buy
Ramp built its own coding agent with 5.5 people
The fintech turned down off-the-shelf coding agents and wrote its own. It says 75% of merged pull requests now come from it, and the team that maintains it is four engineers, a director and a part-time PM.
№ 149 · 26 August 2026