<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agent security is a mess</strong>: AI coding agents, like Stripe’s ‘Minions’ generating 1,000+ PRs weekly, are prioritizing speed over security, creating a ‘security debt crisis’ with issues like hardcoded API keys. A security researcher even demonstrated ChatGPT recommending a malicious site for Tesseract OCR, leading to a reverse C2 shell. Mitigations include spec-driven prompting with OWASP Top 10 and thorough code reviews, but the problem is systemic, as highlighted by Columbia University research. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DD6LZnw0Q&amp;id=Et2d8uHu3&amp;id=LUO8dPKde&amp;id=RH1TYGIET&amp;id=UGo4Ea1t8&amp;id=bDJrJKMJX&amp;id=em7afQ5sm&amp;id=l0KLAjYGc&amp;id=ohhVPexbM&amp;id=vXBWwcwBk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic and Figma team up for code-to-design workflow</strong>: Anthropic and Figma have collaborated on a new workflow that allows Claude Code to convert production code into editable Figma designs. This means developers can send a live web page to a Figma file with a simple prompt, facilitating design collaboration. The updated designs can then be round-tripped back to code, with Claude Code updating the codebase to match the new design, as announced on February 21, 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aCaE5xJ9z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro: high benchmarks, low usability</strong>: Despite achieving top benchmark scores, Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro consistently underperformed Claude Opus 4.6 in real-world coding and UI generation tasks, according to comparisons on February 22, 2026. Gemini 3.1 Pro struggles with tool-calling failures, incomplete features, and poor environment detection, leading to significant practical usability issues for coding and agentic workflows, suggesting Google might be ‘benchmaxing’ at the expense of real-world performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=bIAFUawfa&amp;id=mGa3eARS3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong><a href="http://Lobste.rs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Lobste.rs</a> migrates to SQLite, then reverts</strong>: <a href="http://Lobste.rs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Lobste.rs</a> attempted a live migration from MariaDB to SQLite but quickly reverted due to severe performance degradation, with plans to retry after addressing the issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RLQeRSeS0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go’s FFI now faster than GDScript and Rust</strong>: Go bindings for Godot via GDExtension have achieved FFI performance surpassing GDScript and ‘safe’ Rust, thanks to call batching and Go 1.26 improvements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/j8AoMYJTv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NTransformer runs Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090</strong>: NTransformer, an open-source C++/CUDA LLM inference engine, claims to run Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 using adaptive caching and layer streaming. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Ahx4zgQks&amp;id=WoJMuyqAQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Database design starts with consequences, not tables</strong>: Good database design prioritizes understanding business domain consequences and rigorous schema changes, emphasizing normalization, proper indexing, and constraints. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fI73pTtiz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elixir language server reaches first release candidate</strong>: Expert, the new official Elixir language server merging Lexical and Next LS, has released its first release candidate, focusing on stability and feature parity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ItEtgwo7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>KittenTTS offers nano-sized text-to-speech models</strong>: KittenTTS by Kitten ML provides ultra-compact text-to-speech models, including a nano model under 25MB, optimized for edge and browser deployment. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aXA1rlMhE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Passkeys explained: public/private key cryptography</strong>: Passkeys use public/private key cryptography, with a private key on your device and a public key shared with the website, offering phishing resistance but device dependency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aWiqcUWV2" 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 observability is ‘fundamentally different’</strong>: Apparently, ‘agent observability’ is fundamentally different from traditional software observability because agents are ‘non-deterministic’ and require debugging ‘reasoning’ rather than code. So, we’re just going to pretend that debugging non-deterministic systems is a new problem, and not something we’ve been doing with distributed systems and concurrent programming for decades. It’s just more buzzwords to justify new tools for the same old problems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LY7p8IODB&amp;id=ZmcjIu8ai&amp;id=frjHTf2Ap&amp;id=xhDI1zj4i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The ‘web revival’ is just people making personal websites again</strong>: There’s a ‘web revival’ movement where people are ‘reclaiming the internet’ by building personal websites outside of big tech platforms. So, after two decades of everyone flocking to social media, we’re now celebrating the radical idea of owning your own content on your own domain. Groundbreaking. It’s almost like the internet was designed for this in the first place, before we all decided to hand over our digital lives to a handful of corporations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HW8BqQEkv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Old tech making a comeback: a ‘cultural shift’</strong>: A podcast discusses ‘old tech’ like MP3 players and dumb phones making a comeback, wondering if it’s a ‘fad or a genuine cultural shift’ driven by ‘distraction fatigue.’ Because apparently, realizing that constantly being connected to a firehose of notifications is exhausting is a profound cultural shift, not just common sense finally catching up. Next, they’ll discover that reading a physical book is also a ‘revolutionary’ act of digital detox. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u9gGdIsNO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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