<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li>Google releases gemini 3.1 pro: Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Pro in public preview, touting it as their most powerful agentic and coding model yet. It scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, a massive jump from its predecessor, and features a 1 million token context window. This model is available across various platforms, including GitHub Copilot, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI, and is priced competitively against Anthropic’s Opus 4.6, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjE6Xo1XG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>MySQL community demands independent governance: Over 248 database professionals, including engineers from Percona and MariaDB, have signed an open letter urging Oracle to transfer MySQL governance to an independent non-profit foundation. They cite declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor base, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap as major concerns. This move aims to address growing fragmentation and ensure MySQL’s future relevance, drawing parallels to PostgreSQL’s community-led success. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GY7vcPtOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Anthropic’s claude code policy causes developer uproar: Anthropic updated its Claude Code documentation, restricting OAuth token usage from Pro/Max accounts in third-party tools, sparking community backlash. While Anthropic claims it’s just a documentation cleanup, developers are concerned this signals the end of affordable flat-rate AI subscriptions for commercial development. Official legal documents confirm developers need API keys for building products, pushing them towards more expensive enterprise solutions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3lsZ5Vula&amp;id=FQxtQgg9R&amp;id=GYB8zPRsi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li>AI agents get device control CLI: Callstack released <code>agent-device</code>, an open-source CLI tool enabling AI agents to programmatically control iOS and Android devices, supporting simulators, emulators, and physical hardware with a rich command set and structured JSON output. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ekfc0OFB7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AI memory and agent management solutions emerge: Mengram launched an open-source AI memory API with semantic, episodic, and procedural memory types, while Reload introduced Epic, an AI workforce management platform providing shared long-term memory for AI coding agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0tYkAozTe&amp;id=MQxvV1b9u" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Hugging Face launches community evals for AI benchmarking: Hugging Face introduced “Community Evals,” a new beta feature designed to make AI model evaluation more transparent and community-driven by allowing benchmark datasets to host leaderboards and aggregate evaluation results. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9WqEmBh9G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AI infrastructure and energy demands surge: Cisco partnered with NVIDIA to launch the Secure AI Factory, a modular architecture for AI compute, networking, storage, and security, while SoftBank plans a massive $33 billion natural gas power plant to meet AI data center energy needs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=IYsqAR4Cy&amp;id=VBQEBjah6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AI and robotics industrial adoption accelerates: Toyota deployed seven Agility Robotics Digit humanoid robots at its RAV4 plant for auto parts unloading, and NVIDIA’s survey shows 90% of telecom respondents report AI increasing revenue and reducing costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=WnnenuOfb&amp;id=p1OVwpWSR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Node.js memory usage halved with node-caged: Cloudflare, Igalia, and the Node project collaborated on <code>node-caged</code>, a Docker image with V8 pointer compression that can halve Node.js memory usage in production. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Mm7b9KCfF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>New aurora dsql connectors simplify iam authentication: AWS released new Aurora DSQL connectors for Go, Python, and Node.js that automate IAM authentication, generating tokens per connection without manual management and supporting WebSocket for Postgres.js. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tqOM2TAOg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li>AI productivity: the great Wix experiment: Wix Engineering ran a 5-week experiment with 86 developers using AI coding tools. Turns out, Cursor showed almost no measurable productivity lift, despite users feeling more productive. Claude Code did boost output, but only after developers stopped micromanaging it. So, AI makes you feel productive, but the actual gains are, as always, more complicated than the hype suggests. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qQhctEUPB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AI slop: the new open-source burden: Open-source maintainers are now drowning in “AI slop”—bug fixes generated by “script kiddies” who don’t understand the code. This means code production is instant and free, but review and maintenance costs are unchanged, creating a “verification collapse.” So, AI is making it easier to contribute, but harder to trust anything, which is just fantastic for the future of open source. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Ixa8rNXuv&amp;id=dz3RmQVnk&amp;id=j5Q6D03Mc&amp;id=opnnf1fiE&amp;id=uNeZBI42S" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Next.js: the long-term commitment you didn’t ask for: Someone’s out here arguing that Next.js is a bad idea for long-term projects because of upgrade churn, tight coupling to Vercel, and implicit behavior traps. Apparently, it creates “compounding risks around security, reliability, and maintenance.” So, if you’re building something that needs to last, maybe don’t tie yourself to a framework that might just decide to break everything next Tuesday. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0vMYzSZd0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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