<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI reaches inflection point, developers face 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 specifications, leading to significant psychological distress among developers. This ‘Deep Blue’ phenomenon, referencing the AI victory over Kasparov, highlights a perceived devaluation of human expertise. 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 collaboration with SonarSource. <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 drowning open source projects</strong>: AI-generated security reports are flooding cURL’s bug bounty program, reducing accuracy from 1 in 6 to 1 in 20-30, forcing its shutdown. While AI-powered tools found over 100 legitimate bugs, AI-generated code contributions remain unreliable. Daniel Stenberg, cURL’s creator, criticizes large companies for using AI to find bugs without contributing fixes. This ‘AI slop’ is burdening open-source projects, as seen with the ‘Krabby Wrathbun’ bot incident and the buggy Arborium project, highlighting tensions and vulnerabilities to manipulation in open-source communities. <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 in Notepad and SSJI in serverless Lambda</strong>: Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been discovered, including a Remote Code Execution (RCE) in modern Windows Notepad versions (CVE-2026-20841) due to improper sanitization of <code>file://</code> URIs in Markdown links. Additionally, a React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) 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 introduce novel attack vectors. <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>New RAG indexing strategy boosts accuracy</strong>: PageIndex offers a new RAG indexing strategy that preserves hierarchical document structure, achieving 98.7% accuracy on FinanceBench by maintaining 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>Glean aims to be the enterprise AI middleware</strong>: Glean is positioning itself as an intelligence middleware layer for enterprise AI, connecting LLMs to enterprise data systems with model abstraction and permissions-aware governance, rather than competing at the interface level. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4alSN35wm" 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 Ruby toolkit, <code>llm.rb</code>, provides a zero-dependency, unified API for integrating multiple LLMs like OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, supporting 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>Tool for evaluating AI-generated content quality</strong>: A new npm package, <code>sensei-eval</code>, helps evaluate AI-generated educational content quality using a two-tier system of deterministic checks and LLM-judge criteria, with a CLI for baseline generation and regression detection in CI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/sNnVdBWnz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The PERFECT framework for code reviews</strong>: The PERFECT framework for code reviews prioritizes Purpose, Edge cases, Reliability, Form, Evidence, Clarity, and Taste, aiming to reduce cognitive load and improve quality through structured, objective criteria. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XgjRdXZ44" 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 India strategy: 100 million users, mostly free</strong>: Sam Altman is touting India as OpenAI’s second-largest market with 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, thanks to a sub-$5 tier and free year-long subscriptions. Because, you know, nothing says ‘global AI adoption’ like giving away your product for free to hit user numbers. It’s definitely about expanding AI access, not just market share. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E7X2UrHD0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LocalStack drops community edition, embraces paywall</strong>: LocalStack is discontinuing its open-source Community Edition, forcing users to register and pay for full access, sparking developer concerns about its open-source commitment. Apparently, ‘community’ now means ‘limited free tier’ and ‘pay up for anything useful.’ It’s a bold move to alienate your base, but hey, gotta make that money, right? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fsky5EERm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Reachi Mini robot: advanced AI or just a pricey DIY kit?</strong>: Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics released the Reachi Mini, an open-source educational robot kit, marketed with advanced AI capabilities but requiring assembly and programming. It’s a $300-500 Raspberry Pi kit with ‘rough edges’ and privacy concerns due to default cloud connectivity. So, basically, it’s a learning tool that requires you to be a Linux expert and debug hardware, not the AI-powered marvel the marketing suggests. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/f1KNRZS82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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