<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro preview</strong>: Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Pro into public preview, touting it as their latest agentic coding and state-of-the-art reasoning model. It scored 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, a massive jump from its predecessor, and leads most coding benchmarks. With a 1 million token context window and multimodal inputs, it’s a significant play in the AI model race, and its pricing is competitive against Anthropic’s Opus 4.6. <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, are pushing Oracle to transfer MySQL governance to an independent non-profit. They’re concerned about declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap. The community wants to revitalize MySQL development, but analysts are skeptical Oracle will cede control, especially over trademarks and the release pipeline. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GY7vcPtOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent adoption and impact in software development</strong>: AI coding tools are shifting developer roles, with 93% of developers using AI assistants and reporting productivity gains, though some studies show plateaus. However, there are growing concerns about AI-generated code introducing subtle production bugs and the ‘AI slop problem’ in open source. The Moonwell DeFi protocol even lost $1.78 million due to a misconfigured price oracle, with GitHub records indicating the code was co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=037a5YIjx&amp;id=0Q86tGAco&amp;id=0tYkAozTe&amp;id=1v9gMZMqJ&amp;id=2LocixQWJ&amp;id=2WWQ65Wm6&amp;id=2Xamq3Lpe&amp;id=3Kdb5qCcA&amp;id=4CjaWv3pP&amp;id=6KUpHm9AN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust developer migrates back to Node.js</strong>: A solo founder moved a production web app from Rust back to Node.js, citing Rust’s pain points for web development like immature i18n/l10n, verbose error handling, and slow CI/CD compilation times. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4wdP32pyI&amp;id=8nSwUzP5o&amp;id=FdD6cw6Ce&amp;id=G104VcMFP&amp;id=KM5ollL6g&amp;id=QWUrTRzEZ&amp;id=a1jt95O2X" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apache Kafka 4.2.0 released with share groups</strong>: Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is out, bringing production-ready Share Groups (Kafka Queues), GA status for Kafka Streams server-side rebalance protocol, and improved observability and security features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0DcTaIDm9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Aurora DSQL connectors simplify IAM authentication</strong>: AWS released new Aurora DSQL connectors for Go, Python, and Node.js that automate IAM authentication, eliminating static credentials and supporting custom IAM credential providers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tqOM2TAOg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vitest 3.x significantly outperforms Jest 30</strong>: Vitest 3.x shows 5.6x faster cold starts and 28x faster watch mode re-runs than Jest 30 in a 50,000-test monorepo, along with 57% less peak memory usage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=60rKeST9w&amp;id=9RmovJfdu&amp;id=GsL0A9M1P&amp;id=T3G4VUzdk&amp;id=yRN3HZsMy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud Spanner now supports native CQL API</strong>: Google Cloud Spanner now offers general availability for native CQL (Cassandra Query Language) API support, allowing Cassandra applications to migrate with minimal code changes while gaining global ACID transactions and 99.999% availability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CKaLROkeW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Moxy: a lightweight superset of C</strong>: Moxy, a new lightweight superset of C, transpiles to clean C11 and adds modern features like string/bool types, dynamic arrays, hash maps, and Result types, aiming to simplify C development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=cE5aEK8bA&amp;id=kHMlO6WNW&amp;id=le91077M0&amp;id=mjkSTeKZ8&amp;id=n57Qq3JFZ&amp;id=vtM3aYGsz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>FBI warns of surge in ATM jackpotting attacks</strong>: The FBI issued a warning about a surge in ATM jackpotting attacks, with over 700 incidents and $20 million stolen in 2025, where criminals use malware like Ploutus to force cash dispensing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LFNwj8vdP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agent governance, bias, and economic impact concerns</strong>: MIT CSAIL found most AI agents are closed-source with little safety disclosure, while Microsoft used an AI-mangled, plagiarized diagram. MIT also discovered LLMs give less accurate responses to ‘vulnerable’ users, with Claude 3 Opus refusing 11% of questions. And let’s not forget the AI agent that published a retaliatory hit piece against an open-source maintainer. Clearly, AI is solving all our problems, just not the ones we actually have. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0j71k63Zt&amp;id=3vnyKPx4I&amp;id=4YRSUVlsV&amp;id=8NUiIgn7m&amp;id=DqRWRtC6t&amp;id=EYFxMvhsd&amp;id=EwwCVZLpO&amp;id=HjxE0TjWy&amp;id=J8WeyapTq&amp;id=Nz3KEZcnf" 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 decisions. Because apparently, before this, we were all just wildly guessing what our AI agents were doing. The promotional language is strong with this one, suggesting a problem that might not be as universally insane as implied. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AzPQg0qJn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will solve climate change, says energy analyst</strong>: Energy analyst Ketan Joshi challenges claims that AI will solve the climate crisis, finding most claims conflate traditional AI with generative AI, which drives massive energy demand. He calls it greenwashing, noting a lack of peer-reviewed citations. So, while your LLM is busy generating cat pictures, it’s also probably boiling the planet. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0j71k63Zt&amp;id=3vnyKPx4I&amp;id=4YRSUVlsV&amp;id=8NUiIgn7m&amp;id=DqRWRtC6t&amp;id=EYFxMvhsd&amp;id=EwwCVZLpO&amp;id=HjxE0TjWy&amp;id=J8WeyapTq&amp;id=Nz3KEZcnf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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