<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Hugging Face and GGML team up for local AI</strong>: The creators of llama.cpp, Georgi Gerganov and his GGML team, are joining Hugging Face. This collaboration aims to bolster local AI inference, ensuring llama.cpp remains open-source and community-driven while gaining sustainable resources from Hugging Face. The goal is to make open-source AI accessible on consumer hardware, integrating llama.cpp with the Transformers library and improving packaging for easier local model deployment. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ONSshEfvD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI launches enterprise AI agent platform</strong>: OpenAI has rolled out “Frontier,” an enterprise-focused platform designed to help businesses build, deploy, and manage AI agents at scale. It offers tools for the entire agent development lifecycle, integrating with existing systems like CRMs and data warehouses, and includes identity and governance controls. Despite community concerns about vendor lock-in, OpenAI is providing Forward Deployed Engineers to assist with adoption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NGz762AB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Human guidance is critical for AI agent performance</strong>: New research using the SkillsBench benchmark reveals that AI agents perform significantly better—an average of 16.2 percentage points higher—when provided with curated, human-defined skills. Agents that generate their own skills or receive no human input show no performance improvement. This highlights the current limitations of AI agents in autonomous skill development and underscores the necessity of human oversight for effective agentic AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/c3BmZNVYL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Red Hat launches enterprise Podman Desktop</strong>: Red Hat has released an enterprise-supported version of Podman Desktop in technical preview, offering Docker-compatible container workflows with vendor-backed SLAs and deep OpenShift integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jbEPljaPx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel 13 to feature PHP 8 attributes and new cache method</strong>: Laravel 13, requiring PHP 8.3, will introduce first-class PHP 8 Attributes for Eloquent models and a <code>Cache::touch()</code> method to extend cached item TTLs without re-fetching. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/noeEN07CU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TypeScript 6 beta focuses on compiler rewrite to Go</strong>: TypeScript 6 is in beta, serving as a bridge to TypeScript 7, which will rewrite the compiler in Go for significant performance improvements and a shift towards clearer errors and agent-friendliness. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bVQbQIYQR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Halodoc migrates Angular SSR monolith to Angular 20</strong>: Halodoc successfully migrated its Angular SSR monolith to Angular 20, tackling 12 challenges including switching to Vite+esbuild for 56% faster builds and upgrading to Express 5. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TzZRtuZ8M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New GraphQL APIs for Shopify shipping options</strong>: Shopify is rolling out new GraphQL APIs for managing shipping options within delivery profiles, replacing legacy fields and requiring app migrations for write operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a5y6J79zH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vulkan 1.4.344 adds mixed-precision dot product extension</strong>: Vulkan 1.4.344 introduces a new extension from Valve, VK_VALVE_shader_mixed_float_dot_product, enabling mixed-precision dot product operations for various float input types. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NGuKvBmKD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel patches for PCIe 7.0 support emerge</strong>: Early Linux kernel patches are appearing for PCIe 7.0 support, indicating proactive development for future high-speed interconnects, even as PCIe 6.0 devices are still on the horizon. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RLOBJ6KYd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-native mobile development: more buzzwords, less substance</strong>: Apparently, in 2026, we’ll all be doing ‘AI-native mobile development’ with ‘Predictive UX’ and ‘on-device inference’ on our NPU-accelerated phones. Because Flutter and React Native weren’t already complex enough, now we need to cram federated learning and privacy-first architectures into our apps. Sounds like a lot of fancy terms for what will likely be another battery-draining gimmick. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QWkRl6v8e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0: the comeback nobody asked for</strong>: After nearly a decade, jQuery has graced us with version 4.0, dropping support for IE10 (groundbreaking!) and migrating to ES modules. The community is ‘largely positive,’ apparently, because nothing says ‘modern web development’ like maintaining legacy codebases with a library that’s older than most of your junior devs. Good to know it’s still relevant for ‘progressive enhancement’ and ‘server-rendered sites’—you know, all the cutting-edge stuff. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TvF7uW4a5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The death of the ‘pure’ frontend developer: or just scope creep?</strong>: According to some, the ‘pure’ frontend developer is dead, replaced by a full-stack DevOps guru who also handles ORM, CDN invalidation, and CI/CD. Because, clearly, React Server Components and edge functions mean every frontend dev now needs to be a full-blown infrastructure engineer. Or maybe, just maybe, companies are trying to get three jobs for the price of one. Time to ‘renegotiate titles, compensation, and role boundaries,’ or just find a sane job. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RXxBjrWnR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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