<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI is driving memory prices up and causing hardware shortages</strong>: The insatiable demand for AI infrastructure is causing a massive surge in memory chip prices, with HBM4 mass production starting ahead of schedule and Micron’s entire 2026 output already pre-sold. This AI-driven demand is leading to hardware shortages across the tech industry, impacting consumer products like gaming consoles and driving up prices. Western Digital has already sold out its entire hard drive capacity for 2026 to AI companies, shifting its focus away from the consumer market. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=OUBYQ2PHL&amp;id=VHhfvW7O6&amp;id=w4htkmXsV&amp;id=bKEf8FvYb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are transforming software development and operations</strong>: AI agents are rapidly moving from experimental tools to core components of software development and IT operations. Companies like Stripe are using internal AI ‘minions’ to autonomously merge over 1,000 pull requests weekly, while Microsoft is rolling out ‘agentic cloud operations’ to optimize cloud environments. This shift means developers are becoming orchestrators, focusing on architecture and problem definition, with AI handling code generation, testing, and even incident response. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=HK49rZyW0&amp;id=XwFeQESAO&amp;id=a6tJErMuD&amp;id=oZ8mOxinB&amp;id=qsG38nNdq&amp;id=r5UElroiE&amp;id=To3H4yAcP&amp;id=Ug2ZynTC4&amp;id=Qmgd9m7GA&amp;id=b316ZsaIm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New web standards and tools for AI agent integration</strong>: The web is adapting to AI agents with new standards and tools. The W3C proposed WebMCP to allow websites to expose structured tools directly to in-browser AI agents, replacing inefficient scraping. Google’s WebMCP standard aims to reduce token consumption and promote machine-readable content. Meanwhile, VS Code 1.109 is integrating AI-powered features like agent clarifying questions, MCP apps for interactive UIs, and parallel sub-agent execution, indicating a push towards standardized, AI-friendly web development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0nYgeKiTK&amp;id=zlD0DdN1A&amp;id=Ib422mkez&amp;id=NpNZ22j1b&amp;id=QJP16aVAU&amp;id=R0k8YNGTx&amp;id=XQcHpt8vL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>FrankenPHP gets faster with Go 1.26 and security fixes</strong>: FrankenPHP v1.11.2 was released with critical security patches and an upgrade to Go 1.26, bringing 10-40% faster garbage collection and ~30% faster CGO calls for reduced latency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VrMhMQ4Gf&amp;id=T7AGr1PoJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Nuxt Studio open-sourced for content editing</strong>: Nuxt Studio is now a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS module for Nuxt Content websites, offering a visual editing experience with real-time previews and Git integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PKIGpVSgx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Modern CSS continues to evolve</strong>: Safari now supports <code>text-wrap: pretty</code> for balanced line breaks, and Chrome 145 introduces <code>column-wrap</code>/<code>column-height</code> for multi-column layouts and customizable select elements, further enhancing native CSS capabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=CyCx65phr&amp;id=CWjTT1lwV&amp;id=BItQUD2U2&amp;id=1TO1NBQ6P&amp;id=7YxZ4Hb8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot Memory feature in preview</strong>: GitHub Copilot Memory, a new preview feature in VS Code 1.109, allows the AI assistant to remember coding preferences, team conventions, and project guidelines across sessions, improving context and consistency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PZfOkLRMY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL gets a monitoring extension from ClickHouse</strong>: ClickHouse open-sourced <code>pg_stat_ch</code>, a PostgreSQL extension that captures every query execution as an event and streams it to ClickHouse for APM-style analysis with minimal overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UtmEKBs89" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Python library simplifies Webmention integration</strong>: A new Python library offers a ‘batteries-included’ solution for implementing Webmention, a decentralized commenting protocol, with support for incoming/outgoing mentions, SQLAlchemy storage, and FastAPI/Flask bindings. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mBytQx1XU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered browser Comet automates research</strong>: Comet is an AI-powered browser designed to automate research tasks, offering features like article summarization, key information extraction, social media sentiment analysis, and structured workspace organization. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qUWv47dg0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Spotify CEO claims developers stopped writing code, AI does it all</strong>: Spotify’s co-CEO is out here claiming their ‘top developers’ haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI. Apparently, they’re shipping 50+ features from Slack during their commutes. Sounds less like a technological breakthrough and more like a marketing department’s fever dream, or perhaps a subtle way to justify future layoffs. Because, you know, if AI can do it all, what do we need humans for? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ikS6IZPhn&amp;id=s5BDVI2HR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI is destroying open source, and it’s not even good yet</strong>: Open-source maintainers, like those at Godot and curl, are drowning in a sea of low-quality, AI-generated pull requests and bug reports. The curl project even dropped bug bounties because 95% of submissions were AI spam. GitHub’s solution? Let maintainers disable pull requests entirely. Because nothing says ‘open source’ like closing off contributions due to AI-generated garbage. It’s almost as if AI is great at generating quantity, but quality is still a human problem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=p4VqhMMFm&amp;id=FbzHThFRg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated code: the gift that keeps on giving… technical debt</strong>: Apparently, AI coding agents are now writing 90% of code, but a survey found 96% of engineers don’t trust it, yet only 48% bother to verify it. So, we’re shipping faster, understanding less, and probably accumulating technical debt at an unprecedented rate. What could possibly go wrong when AI generates 42% of code, and we just blindly commit it? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4eW9DctUo&amp;id=PryOnuBPQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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