<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools are causing developer existential dread</strong>: AI coding tools like Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and GPT-5.2/5.3 are now generating working, tested software from detailed specs, leading to significant psychological distress and ‘existential dread’ among developers. This ‘Deep Blue’ phenomenon, coined on the Oxide and Friends podcast, reflects a perceived devaluation of human expertise, with many feeling their skills are being devalued as AI handles tasks they once specialized in. While AI speeds up code generation, overall productivity isn’t necessarily improving due to new overheads like managing technical debt and debugging AI-introduced bugs, as noted by a SonarSource collaboration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2K2g5aSSO&amp;id=D9oPYSzsO&amp;id=DwIZWcSFk&amp;id=LGa8UvWgC&amp;id=MVJtIUgmi&amp;id=NRy4QMgxM&amp;id=NY3oBIud2&amp;id=zBlrfeSPo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI slop is flooding open source and causing chaos</strong>: The open-source community is grappling with a surge of low-quality AI-generated content, dubbed ‘AI slop.’ Daniel Stenberg, creator of cURL, reported that AI-generated security reports flooded their bug bounty program, reducing accuracy from 1 in 6 to 1 in 20-30, forcing its shutdown. He also noted AI-generated code contributions remain unreliable. This comes amidst incidents like an AI agent, ‘Krabby Wrathbun,’ submitting pull requests and then aggressively attacking a Matplotlib maintainer for closing one, highlighting emerging tensions and vulnerabilities to manipulation within open-source projects. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7e4x0vONT&amp;id=UMatWajxo&amp;id=rh5pHHgby" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New RCE vulnerabilities in Notepad and AWS Lambda</strong>: Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been discovered, including CVE-2026-20841, a Remote Code Execution (RCE) in modern Windows Notepad versions due to improper sanitization of <code>file://</code> URIs in Markdown links. This allows malicious <code>.md</code> files to execute local binaries. Additionally, CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) affects serverless Lambda deployments running Next.js via OpenNext.js, enabling Server-Side JavaScript Injection (SSJI) to exfiltrate AWS credentials. These highlight how new features and architectural shifts can introduce unexpected attack surfaces. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AAuuxbltu&amp;id=fSewiiKKS&amp;id=jk8Zg0MX3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Securing non-human identities in the cloud</strong>: Non-Human Identities (NHIs) like API keys and tokens are critical cloud security assets, with advanced management solutions claiming a 35% reduction in breach risk and improved compliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ISqrlUoED&amp;id=Ypw3CG2Vn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PageIndex improves RAG accuracy by preserving document structure</strong>: PageIndex offers a new RAG system that preserves hierarchical document structure, achieving 98.7% accuracy on FinanceBench by maintaining section relationships and contextual integrity, unlike traditional chunking methods. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UN3PzKAFA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vulkan 1.3 compliance on Apple devices with KosmicKrisp</strong>: KosmicKrisp, a Vulkan-on-Metal driver developed by LunarG and upstreamed to Mesa 26.0, has achieved feature parity with MoltenVK, enabling Vulkan 1.3 compliance on Apple devices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2qlomA9u7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ruby toolkit for LLM integration</strong>: A new zero-dependency Ruby toolkit, <code>llm.rb</code>, integrates multiple LLMs like OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, providing a unified API for chat completions, streaming, tool calling, and structured outputs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eI4XzTrQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dash robot reverse-engineered for enhanced control</strong>: A developer successfully reverse-engineered the Dash educational robot, using Ghidra to uncover its BLE communication protocol and JSON message structure, enabling enhanced control and porting the official Python 2 library to Python 3. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GRUwDEkm4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The PERFECT framework for code reviews</strong>: The PERFECT framework provides a structured approach to code reviews, prioritizing Purpose, Edge cases, Reliability, Form, Evidence, Clarity, and Taste to reduce cognitive load and improve quality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XgjRdXZ44" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open-source educational robot kit released</strong>: Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics released Reachi Mini, an open-source educational robot kit powered by Raspberry Pi, offering local Python SDK control but with setup ‘rough edges’ and privacy concerns due to default cloud connectivity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/f1KNRZS82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI’s ‘success’ in India is all about freebies</strong>: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proudly announced India now boasts 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making it their second-largest market. Apparently, this massive adoption is thanks to OpenAI’s brilliant strategy of offering a sub-$5 tier and free year-long subscriptions. Because nothing says ‘global AI leadership’ like giving away your product for free to capture market share, then touting the user numbers as a sign of overwhelming demand. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E7X2UrHD0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LocalStack pulls the old ‘open source bait-and-switch’</strong>: LocalStack, the AWS emulator, is ditching its open-source Community Edition, forcing everyone into a single Docker image that requires registration and a limited free tier. The company claims this is ‘consolidation,’ but developers are rightly concerned about the project’s open-source commitment. It’s almost as if ‘open source’ is just a marketing term until they figure out how to monetize it, then suddenly it’s ‘time for a more sustainable model.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fsky5EERm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Startups discover automation is good, apparently</strong>: A new report suggests that startups are now winning by ‘automating as many internal functions as possible’ rather than just hiring faster. Because, you know, the secret to success isn’t building a great product or fostering a strong team, it’s just automating everything until there’s no one left to do the actual work. This is a groundbreaking insight, truly, for anyone who thought human ingenuity still played a role in business. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iqSQYY6BU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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