<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 experiment reportedly shipped a beta product with a million lines of code, all generated by AI, shifting engineers’ roles to designing environments and specifying intent. This approach emphasizes declarative prompts and machine-readable documentation as the source of truth for AI agents, as noted 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 significantly reduces cross-region write latency by up to 75%. This feature allows data to be written to the nearest Cloudflare PoP and then asynchronously replicated to the bucket’s home region, making objects immediately accessible. This is a direct competitor to AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration, but with a different technical approach, as reported by Renato Losio. <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 mechanism uses stored procedures to write messages to SQL Server’s ERRORLOG, which CloudWatch Logs then detects to invoke Lambda functions. This decouples business logic from the database, offering scalability and potential cost reductions, as highlighted 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>PostgreSQL 19 adds hot standby status to psql prompt</strong>: PostgreSQL 19 introduces a new <code>%i</code> prompt escape for psql, allowing the prompt to display whether the connected server is a primary or a hot standby, simplifying role identification in replicated environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nQ1LJvlCo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL 19 allows per-process log levels</strong>: PostgreSQL 19 now supports configuring <code>log_min_messages</code> per process type, enabling targeted debug logging for specific backend processes like autovacuum without flooding logs from all processes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jFpuJ6YrS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>.NET 11 preview 1 released with async improvements and C# 15</strong>: .NET 11 Preview 1 is out, featuring runtime-level async improvements, Zstandard compression support, and new C# 15 language features, signaling the direction for the next major .NET release. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=QBAQQNpLN&amp;id=xPZZ4nMO0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>EFF updates open-source policy for AI-assisted coding</strong>: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) updated its open-source contribution policy, requiring contributors to understand and be accountable for AI-assisted code, shifting focus from AI detection to human explanation and intent. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/W3yzAhjLd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI data centers explore high-temperature superconductors</strong>: Hyperscalers are investigating high-temperature superconductors (HTS) to replace copper wiring in AI data centers to address severe power constraints, with Microsoft investing in a startup developing HTS cables for improved efficiency and capacity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jbBqj45d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare outage caused by BYOIP bug</strong>: Cloudflare experienced a 6-hour outage due to a software bug in its Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service, which unintentionally withdrew BGP prefixes from the network, highlighting the complexities of distributed systems and the need for robust validation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hy3FNhBxD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Java 25 addresses performance myths with AOT and GC enhancements</strong>: Java 25 introduces significant performance improvements, including Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) caching for faster startup, generational garbage collector enhancements for Shenandoah and ZGC, and compact object headers to 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>Google VP warns about AI startup survival</strong>: Google Cloud VP Darren Mowry is out here warning that AI startups relying on thin LLM wrappers or aggregation without deep differentiation are doomed. Because, apparently, nobody saw that coming. It’s almost like building a business on someone else’s platform without adding significant value is a bad idea. Who knew? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/djwfpUzVm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity CEO claims AI will make entire games</strong>: Unity’s CEO is making bold claims that AI will soon generate entire casual games from natural language prompts. While rapid prototyping is cool, the idea that AI will replace human creativity and design for anything beyond a Flappy Bird clone is, shall we say, optimistic. Let’s see those AI-generated masterpieces, shall we? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VkFal2xDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta’s AI is killing agencies, literally</strong>: A digital marketing agency is having a meltdown because Meta’s AI keeps auto-banning their new hires’ ad accounts, often before they even run an ad. Appeals are impossible, and support is useless. It’s almost as if relying solely on opaque AI for critical business functions without human oversight is a recipe for disaster. But hey, at least it’s scalable! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/llEdpZB7r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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