<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 in public preview, touting it as their latest agentic coding and state-of-the-art reasoning model. It scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, a big jump from its predecessor, and leads most coding benchmarks. This model supports multimodal inputs and offers a massive 1 million token context window, intensifying the AI model race with competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI. Pricing is also competitive at $2 per million input tokens. <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. They’re concerned about declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap. This move aims to revitalize MySQL development and address growing fragmentation, though analysts are skeptical about resolving power dynamics if Oracle retains control over trademarks and releases. <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 rapidly changing developer roles, with 93% of developers now using AI assistants, shifting focus from writing code to reviewing and orchestrating AI agents. While some report significant productivity gains, there’s a growing ‘AI slop problem’ in open source, where AI-generated code introduces subtle bugs and increases review burden for maintainers. This highlights the need for robust engineering maturity and new developer skills like context fluency to manage agentic AI effectively. <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>Most developers don’t build new things</strong>: The reality of software development is that most careers are spent maintaining and evolving existing systems, not constantly building greenfield projects, emphasizing stewardship over rewrites. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=NmI2DGMqJ&amp;id=eVsjSCHqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vitest 3.x significantly outperforms Jest 30</strong>: Vitest 3.x shows dramatically faster cold starts and watch mode re-runs compared to Jest 30, along with lower memory usage, making it a strong contender for JavaScript testing, especially for Vite-based projects. <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>FBI warns of surge in ATM jackpotting attacks</strong>: The FBI issued an alert about a surge in ATM jackpotting attacks, where criminals use malware like Ploutus to force cash dispensing, stealing over $20 million in 2025. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LFNwj8vdP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games</strong>: Sony closed Bluepoint Games, known for remakes like Demon’s Souls, citing rising development costs and slowed industry growth, leading to approximately 70 job losses. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NivzB6VtH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Epic Games discontinues Quixel Mixer</strong>: Epic Games has ended development of Quixel Mixer, releasing a final unsupported version, pushing users towards alternatives like Substance Painter for 3D texture painting. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YFmiwWeKv" 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 and a broader software update introducing ‘kneel mode’ and cold weather battery indicators. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VXVQM04su&amp;id=WnnenuOfb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>KFC architecture blueprint for real-time data processing</strong>: The KFC (Kafka, Flink, ClickHouse) Architecture Blueprint offers a robust solution for end-to-end real-time data processing, suitable for fraud detection and IoT telemetry, though often overkill for simpler workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pAQO9MXVw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Claude Pro integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint</strong>: Oh, joy! Claude Pro now integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing users to ‘pull context from their daily tools directly into presentations.’ Because what we really needed was another AI to help us make more slides, faster. I’m sure this will revolutionize the art of corporate deck-building, or at least make it easier to generate more bullet points for those thrilling quarterly reviews. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oLQ4V0bPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Trajectory Explorer tool announcement</strong>: Someone announced ‘Trajectory Explorer,’ a new tool for ‘navigating AI agent traces’ and providing a ‘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 promises to reveal ‘every decision an AI agent makes,’ which sounds less like a breakthrough and more like basic debugging for something that should already be transparent. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AzPQg0qJn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will solve the climate crisis, says energy analyst</strong>: An energy analyst is challenging claims that AI will solve the climate crisis, pointing out that most claims conflate traditional AI with generative AI, which, ironically, drives massive energy demand. So, we’re supposed to believe the technology that’s guzzling power like there’s no tomorrow is also our savior from climate change? Sounds like classic greenwashing to me. <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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