<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google’s new Gemini 3.1 Pro is out</strong>: Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Pro in public preview, touting it as their latest agentic coding and reasoning model. It’s available across a bunch of platforms like GitHub Copilot and Google AI Studio, and they’re claiming a massive jump in benchmark scores. This release is clearly Google’s play to keep pace in the AI model race, especially with competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI also pushing out new versions, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjE6Xo1XG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are changing how we code, for better or worse</strong>: AI coding tools are shifting developer roles from writing code to reviewing and orchestrating AI agents, with 93% of developers now using AI assistants. While some report significant productivity gains, there are growing concerns about AI-generated code introducing subtle bugs and the ‘AI slop problem’ in open source, where AI-generated PRs create extra review burdens for maintainers. This is leading to new roles like Agent Orchestration Engineer and a focus on robust engineering maturity to ship AI applications reliably. <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>
<li><strong>Vitest is crushing Jest in performance</strong>: New benchmarks show Vitest 3.x significantly outperforming Jest 30, with 5.6x faster cold starts and 28x faster watch mode re-runs in large monorepos. It also uses 57% less memory, thanks to its Vite-based pipeline. If you’re on Vite or struggling with ESM in Jest, a migration guide is available, but for stable Next.js/Webpack setups, sticking with Jest might still be the play. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9RmovJfdu&amp;id=GsL0A9M1P&amp;id=T3G4VUzdk&amp;id=yRN3HZsMy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Docker hardened images for HIPAA compliance</strong>: Medplum, an open-source HIPAA-compliant EHR platform, significantly enhanced its security posture and compliance by switching to Docker Hardened Images with minimal code changes, eliminating manual non-root user setup and reducing CVE noise. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tcR1V1vMG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New open-source SVG editor for web developers</strong>: VectorNest is a free, browser-based SVG editor designed for front-end developers to create web icons and UI elements, offering a streamlined workflow compared to Illustrator and producing smaller, web-optimized SVG files. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9RmovJfdu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js memory usage halved with node-caged</strong>: 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><strong>Shopify dev dashboard now multilingual</strong>: Shopify’s Dev Dashboard now supports multiple languages, automatically rendering in the user’s preferred language across all options available in the Shopify admin. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wUWwnWTFq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WinterTC aims for true write-once, run-anywhere JavaScript</strong>: WinterTC (Ecma TC55) is standardizing a unified API surface across JavaScript runtimes like Node, Deno, and Bun, treating the browser as the baseline to finally deliver on the promise of isomorphic JavaScript. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hSdXmiGXO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Free animated react components with framer motion</strong>: Uselayouts offers a free micro-interaction UI component library with copy-paste ready, animated React components built using Framer Motion, Shadcn UI, and Tailwind CSS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/M8mSdjKik" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ASCII art animations for your react website</strong>: ASCII Gen is a paid toolkit for adding ASCII art animations to React-based websites, including a React component, a local editor for video conversion, and pre-made animations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tAJXrpxsh" 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 is a mess, surprise</strong>: MIT CSAIL’s latest report found that 23 out of 30 AI agents are closed-source, and only 4 of 13 ‘frontier-autonomy’ agents bothered to disclose safety evaluations. Apparently, ‘industry standards’ and ‘accountability’ are just quaint suggestions in the AI world, according to MIT CSAIL’s research. Who needs transparency when you have hype? <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>Claude Pro integrates with PowerPoint, because that’s what we needed</strong>: Anthropic announced Claude Pro now integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing users to ‘pull context’ from daily tools into presentations. Because clearly, the biggest problem facing enterprise users was the lack of AI-powered slide generation, not, you know, actual productivity. One source even claims Claude Pro is ‘getting bigger every week,’ which sounds suspiciously like marketing fluff for a feature nobody asked for. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oLQ4V0bPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Next.js for the long term? Maybe not</strong>: A critical take suggests that Next.js might not be the best choice for long-term projects, citing upgrade churn, tight coupling to Vercel’s ecosystem, and implicit behavior traps as compounding risks. Apparently, building something that lasts means avoiding frameworks that constantly demand your attention and tie you to a single vendor. Who knew stability was a feature? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0vMYzSZd0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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