<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are eating software development</strong>: AI coding agents are rapidly transforming software development, with tools like OpenAI’s Codex App and StrongDM’s ‘Software Factory’ automating code generation, testing, and validation. This shift is moving the bottleneck from writing code to defining intent and orchestrating AI agents, fundamentally changing developer roles. GitHub’s Agent HQ and Atlassian’s Rovo Dev are also integrating AI agents for tasks like code review and project management, signaling a broad industry pivot towards AI-driven workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PKgkpakDW&amp;id=SVJSQF1SS&amp;id=T3WPt9UvY&amp;id=TQc8FjFe3&amp;id=UP8vbIiNh&amp;id=V83fhk3mp&amp;id=VJ9rI7ypU&amp;id=lfiKVNUvl&amp;id=2rB0oFTYm&amp;id=WTAoTV4Rw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI infrastructure demand drives hardware scarcity and market volatility</strong>: The insatiable demand for AI infrastructure is causing a global GPU and memory shortage, driving up prices and creating market volatility. Tech giants are pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure, leading to a ‘software-mageddon’ as investors question ROI and AI’s disruptive impact on traditional software. This scarcity is forcing organizations to consider hybrid infrastructure models and pushing for energy innovations like Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) to power future AI data centers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=UnsXEj0zo&amp;id=VLO6FYqeL&amp;id=WuscJA6Ia&amp;id=XlX6Fsoew&amp;id=yVlF3m7bk&amp;id=26XUA8lbK&amp;id=5cxfpg0DX&amp;id=199qmDrPq&amp;id=zTCrlSA9U&amp;id=hxSw7K3yO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent security is a mess</strong>: The rapid deployment of AI agents is creating a cybersecurity nightmare, with platforms like Moltbook and OpenClaw exhibiting critical vulnerabilities from exposed databases to malicious skills. Prompt injection, zero-click data exfiltration, and supply chain attacks are rampant, exploiting the agents’ privileged access and human-in-the-loop processes. Experts are calling for a shift to infrastructure-level security, zero-trust principles, and architectural controls to contain the ‘blast radius’ of these autonomous systems, as traditional security models are proving insufficient. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ycPDVy6OP&amp;id=8XBbHzIL3&amp;id=8XvGhTS0d&amp;id=BFb4A0CqB&amp;id=OTgLY8MMT&amp;id=Oalw1HqbC&amp;id=YLMZjOxxP&amp;id=YTW5wG2E8&amp;id=0BdgmYNfg&amp;id=0UIAIJz1z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Linux kernel 7.0 is here with major updates</strong>: Linux kernel 7.0 has been released, making Rust a permanent language, enabling Intel TSX by default, and speeding up container creation by 40% with open tree namespaces. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4AON6VE6k&amp;id=j4bnStI4p&amp;id=jGhcK99Xr&amp;id=kfdS62Kgt&amp;id=mhsZzaXQL&amp;id=o0XuAyAP1&amp;id=jB03udxRl&amp;id=k0qXAqGCH&amp;id=8HdxC0TiT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Heroku is dead, long live heroku alternatives</strong>: Salesforce has officially moved Heroku into a ‘sustaining engineering’ phase, ceasing new enterprise contracts and feature development, prompting users to migrate to alternatives like DigitalOcean App Platform, Render, or <a href="http://Fly.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Fly.io</a>. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=13PGZg8yI&amp;id=u738eKfMn&amp;id=qAmp5MSPU&amp;id=smfFrov84&amp;id=pW1DiQ44D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI is transforming data analytics and engineering</strong>: AI is revolutionizing data analytics and engineering with tools like Snowflake’s Cortex Code, JetBrains’ Databao, and Fundamental’s Nexus, enabling natural language queries, automated data pipelines, and real-time insights from massive datasets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Wyt1TFesY&amp;id=YQpwOBE0D&amp;id=aSHfIm3oS&amp;id=R0yYK6o3z&amp;id=Ro8BKtzhT&amp;id=SY0h1Qub6&amp;id=Ve8em0pi8&amp;id=EPB42mvzZ&amp;id=sxWcdVmIJ&amp;id=nzhFpomqF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust continues its march into the kernel and beyond</strong>: Rust is becoming a permanent fixture in the Linux kernel, with ongoing adoption in projects like Git and Ubuntu’s core utilities, while also powering new systems programming languages like Jule and AI tools like LocalGPT. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=FPqTocDTO&amp;id=6P9K2YylU&amp;id=6lrbyyyQ3&amp;id=7nCWE58Ms&amp;id=8mu4nh6xg&amp;id=qOwQKZSfg&amp;id=tOZM87RtA&amp;id=3zUHReihb&amp;id=6HdMsUX5F&amp;id=FNArsyNpZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI is changing the economics of software development</strong>: AI is drastically reducing the cost of writing business logic and integration code, shifting the value of software engineering from implementation to architectural judgment, problem definition, and strategic thinking. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=QnkkrfiEd&amp;id=zMRAHcD2R&amp;id=QdPD1orhu&amp;id=RDuhjqdJt&amp;id=SyJsoPOXL&amp;id=TgTHZDUJC&amp;id=VHT8GfR8U&amp;id=VWzSaoMqP&amp;id=Vsxz1h8Es&amp;id=onAnCwgEm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go 1.26 released with green tea garbage collector</strong>: Go 1.26 is out, featuring the Green Tea garbage collector by default, a 30% reduction in cgo overhead, and new language improvements like expression operands for <code>new()</code> and self-referential generic types. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ulooYh1Tw&amp;id=LaCiVvkgn&amp;id=tR9L7XugY&amp;id=27vA6E5rB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL gets real search and AI agent integration</strong>: PostgreSQL is enhancing its capabilities with advanced text search via <code>pg_text_search</code> using the BM25 algorithm, eliminating the need for external search infrastructure, and integrating with AI coding environments through tools like Pigsty v4.0’s VIBE module. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9j18xk0DP&amp;id=mUujkXZJa" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong><a href="http://AI.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">AI.com</a>’s $70 million domain crash</strong>: <a href="http://Crypto.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Crypto.com</a>’s CEO Kris Marszalek shelled out $70 million in crypto for the <a href="http://AI.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">AI.com</a> domain, only to have his Super Bowl ad launch crash the website, which was apparently running on Cloudflare’s free tier. The ad itself was a masterpiece of confusion, failing to explain the product and immediately demanding credit card details. Because nothing screams ‘future of AI’ like a website that can’t handle a little traffic and an ad that’s more interested in your wallet than your understanding. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=RoetWzgWa&amp;id=523JYaLlR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>X’s grok AI is a deepfake machine under international scrutiny</strong>: Elon Musk’s X and xAI are under expanded criminal investigation in France for child sexual abuse material, privacy violations, and Holocaust denial, with Grok AI generating millions of sexualized deepfakes, including those appearing to depict children. Despite Musk’s attempts to implement ‘guardrails,’ they’re easily bypassed, leading to calls for Apple and Google to remove Grok from their app stores. Apparently, ‘free speech absolutism’ extends to algorithmic generation of illegal content, and fixing it is just a matter of restricting features to paid subscribers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/i3FTaaYRg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic’s ad-free claude AI is a moral high ground marketing stunt</strong>: Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI for introducing advertising in ChatGPT, positioning Claude AI as the virtuous, ad-free alternative. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it ‘dishonest,’ pointing out Anthropic’s business model relies on enterprise customers and API access, effectively serving ‘only wealthy users.’ So, while Claude might not show you ads, it’s still very much about the money, just from a different, more exclusive, pocket. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TmM2mNSSP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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