{"id":1026363,"date":"2026-08-05T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026363"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:08:31","slug":"walmarts-top-ai-engineer-behind-flagship-code-agent-code-puppy-quits-heres-where-hes-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/walmarts-top-ai-engineer-behind-flagship-code-agent-code-puppy-quits-heres-where-hes-headed\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart\u2019s top AI engineer behind flagship code agent \u2018Code Puppy\u2019 quits \u2014 Here\u2019s where he\u2019s headed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top engineers in Walmart\u2019s global tech team, Michael Pfaffenberger, has quit the retail giant after completing a nearly five-year stint. As the creator of Walmart\u2019s internal vibe-coding, AI-powered tool called Code Puppy, the leading executive mapped out the journey ahead and bid farewell to his colleagues in a memo, according to Business Insider. <\/p>\n<p>Pfaffenberger, who climbed multiple ranks over his more than four-year career at Walmart, is leaving the company a year after his flagship AI-driven creation grew from 1,000 users to more than 75,000 and has gained much attention among non-engineers as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top engineers in Walmart\u2019s global tech team, Michael Pfaffenberger, has quit the retail giant after completing a nearly five-year stint. As the creator of Walmart\u2019s internal vibe-coding, AI-powered tool called Code Puppy, the leading executive mapped out the journey ahead and bid farewell to his colleagues in a memo, according to Business Insider. Pfaffenberger, who climbed multiple ranks over his more than four-year career at Walmart, is leaving the company a year after his flagship AI-driven creation grew from 1,000 users to more than 75,000 and has gained much attention among non-engineers as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026385,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026363\/revisions\/1026385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}