<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro preview</strong>: Google has released Gemini 3.1 Pro in public preview, positioning it as their latest agentic coding and state-of-the-art reasoning model. It boasts a 1 million token input context window and significant performance gains on benchmarks like ARC-AGI-2, scoring 77.1% compared to its predecessor’s 31.1%. This release intensifies the AI model race, with Google pricing it competitively against rivals like Anthropic’s Opus 4.6, as reported by various sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjE6Xo1XG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MySQL governance under scrutiny</strong>: 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. Concerns include declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap, leading to growing fragmentation. The community aims to revitalize MySQL development, citing PostgreSQL’s community-led success as a model. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GY7vcPtOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents shift developer roles and introduce new risks</strong>: AI coding tools are transforming developer roles, with 93% of developers using AI assistants, shifting focus from writing code to reviewing and orchestrating AI agents. While productivity gains are reported, AI-generated code can introduce subtle production bugs and security vulnerabilities, as seen in a $1.78 million DeFi protocol loss due to Claude Opus 4.6 co-authored code. This highlights the emerging ‘AI slop problem’ in open source, where AI-generated contributions create significant review burdens for maintainers, as detailed in InfoWorld. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=037a5YIjx&amp;id=Ixa8rNXuv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Vitest 3.x significantly outperforms Jest 30</strong>: Vitest 3.x shows dramatically faster performance than Jest 30, with 5.6x faster cold starts and 28x faster watch mode re-runs in large monorepos, along with 57% less memory usage, making it a strong contender for JavaScript testing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/60rKeST9w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rivian launches Apple Watch app and software updates</strong>: Rivian is rolling out an Apple Watch companion app for vehicle controls, alongside a broader software update introducing ‘kneel mode’ for lower ride height and a cold weather battery indicator. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VXVQM04su" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud announces native CQL API support on Spanner</strong>: Google Cloud now offers general availability for native Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API support on Spanner, allowing Cassandra applications to migrate with minimal code changes and leverage Spanner’s global ACID transactions and high availability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CKaLROkeW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mirai raises seed round for on-device AI inference engine</strong>: Mirai, a startup co-founded by Reface and Prisma veterans, secured $10M to develop a Rust-based inference engine for Apple Silicon, claiming up to 37% faster model generation for on-device AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5vuQOT9lb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Moxy: a lightweight superset of C</strong>: Moxy, a new language by wess, transpiles to clean C11, adding modern features like string/bool types, dynamic arrays, hash maps, and Result types, aiming to enhance C development with modern conveniences. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/le91077M0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mini Diarium: open-source, encrypted journaling app</strong>: Mini Diarium, an open-source, local-only journaling app built with Tauri 2, SolidJS, and Rust, offers AES-256-GCM encryption and ensures data privacy by keeping all data on-device with no network access or telemetry. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mjkSTeKZ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitOps best practices for Kubernetes</strong>: A guide to GitOps best practices emphasizes treating Git as the single source of truth, using directory-based environment separation, tagging images with commit SHAs, and leveraging webhook receivers to manage Kubernetes deployments at scale. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KF2N6PqEu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI management dashboard for crawler traffic control</strong>: Link11 launched an ‘AI Management Dashboard’ to give companies ‘dedicated visibility and control’ over AI crawler traffic. Because apparently, we now need a special dashboard to tell us which bots are AI and which are just regular bots. It’s not just bot traffic, it’s <em>AI</em> bot traffic, which is clearly a whole different beast requiring its own analytics category. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zxo3wKZNk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Trajectory Explorer: the ‘first sane way’ to inspect AI agents</strong>: @benhylak announced Trajectory Explorer, a new tool for navigating AI agent traces, claiming it’s the ‘first sane way’ to inspect AI agent decisions. Because before this, everyone was just using insane ways, apparently. It’s always the ‘first sane way’ until the next ‘first sane way’ comes along. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AzPQg0qJn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Claude Pro integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint</strong>: Claude Pro now integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing users to pull context from their daily tools directly into presentations. The promotional material claims Claude Pro is ‘getting bigger every week.’ So, now your AI can help you make even more slides, faster. Truly groundbreaking for the future of corporate presentations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oLQ4V0bPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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