<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI introduces AI-driven harness engineering</strong>: OpenAI has unveiled “Harness Engineering,” an internal methodology leveraging Codex agents for large-scale software development, including code generation, testing, and CI workflows. A five-month internal experiment reportedly shipped a beta product with one million lines of code, all generated without manual source code. This shifts the engineering role to designing environments and specifying intent, as highlighted by Martin Fowler. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dPCNsAxds" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare R2 local uploads reduce latency</strong>: Cloudflare launched “Local Uploads” for its R2 object storage, now in open beta, which can cut cross-region write latency by up to 75%. Data is written to the nearest Cloudflare PoP and then asynchronously replicated to the bucket’s home region, making objects immediately accessible. This feature aims to boost upload performance for geographically distributed workloads, according to Cloudflare’s announcement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XbGrpoJDs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS enables event-driven architectures for RDS SQL server</strong>: AWS now allows Lambda function triggers directly from RDS for SQL Server database events, enabling event-driven architectures. This approach uses stored procedures to write messages to SQL Server’s ERRORLOG, which CloudWatch Logs then filters to invoke Lambda functions. This decouples business logic from the database, offering scalability and potential cost reductions, as reported by SteefJan. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KzhIuYzeh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>EFF updates open-source policy for AI-assisted coding</strong>: The Electronic Frontier Foundation updated its open-source policy, requiring contributors to understand and be able to explain all submitted code, including AI-assisted portions, shifting accountability upstream. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/W3yzAhjLd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google VP warns about AI startup survival</strong>: A Google Cloud VP warns that AI startups relying on thin LLM wrappers or acting as aggregators without deep differentiation are unlikely to survive, drawing parallels to early AWS resellers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/djwfpUzVm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare experiences 6-hour BYOIP outage</strong>: Cloudflare had a 6-hour outage affecting its Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service due to a software bug that unintentionally withdrew ~1,100 BGP prefixes, leading to complex recovery efforts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hy3FNhBxD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Datastar simplifies modern web development</strong>: Datastar is an 11 KB backend-driven hypermedia framework that unifies HTMX and Alpine.js functionalities, using Server-Sent Events for real-time push updates without WebSockets or a JavaScript build pipeline. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GKcflwWUw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MicroGPT visualizes GPT model internals</strong>: MicroGPT is a browser-based tool that interactively visualizes the internal workings of a simplified GPT model, allowing users to observe training and adjust parameters to understand model behavior. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OVC1wsXuk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sandkasten provides sandbox for AI agents</strong>: Sandkasten is a self-hosted sandbox runtime for AI agents, offering stateful Linux sandboxes with persistent shell sessions and file operations using native Linux primitives for isolation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kdJWfknAe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Java 25 addresses performance myths</strong>: Java 25 introduces significant performance improvements, including Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) caching, Garbage Collector enhancements, and Compact Object Headers, aiming to cut startup times and reduce heap size. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5Gmq7wbhe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Unity CEO claims AI will soon make entire games</strong>: Unity’s CEO is out here claiming AI will soon let developers prompt entire casual games into existence. Because, you know, the world is just clamoring for more Flappy Bird clones generated by a machine. Apparently, human creativity and polish are just optional extras now, according to Code Monkey. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VkFal2xDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta’s AI is killing agency accounts</strong>: Meta’s AI identity verification system is apparently so brilliant it’s auto-banning legitimate digital marketing agency accounts faster than they can be created, with no human recourse. It’s almost like they designed a system to actively prevent professionals from using their platform, as reported by Hacker News. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/llEdpZB7r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Is AWS cloud still worth learning in this AI-obsessed world?</strong>: A former AWS solutions architect is asking if learning AWS is still worth it in an “AI-Obsessed World.” Spoiler alert: yes, but now you need to pair it with AI knowledge and a “strong personal brand.” Because apparently, just being good at cloud isn’t enough; you also need to be an influencer, according to Tech With Lucy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8yc6ZDNd6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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