<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools are making developers slower, not faster</strong>: Turns out, AI coding assistants aren’t the productivity panacea everyone’s been hyping. Studies show developers using these tools are 19% slower overall, despite feeling faster, and code reviews take 91% longer. Why? AI-generated code has 1.7x more bugs and security issues, lacks architectural understanding, and leads to more code churn, according to The Serious CTO. It seems optimizing for typing speed doesn’t quite cut it for real engineering problems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5khP9Wt37" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js gets critical security patches for DoS vulnerability</strong>: Node.js released urgent patches for a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-59466) affecting <code>async_hooks</code> and <code>AsyncLocalStorage</code>. This bug can crash applications using popular frameworks like Next.js and APM tools, as it causes uncaught stack overflows. Node.js versions 8.x through 24.x are affected, with fixes available in 20.20.0, 22.22.0, 24.13.0, and 25.3.0. If you’re on Node.js 18, you’re out of luck for a backport, so upgrade ASAP. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EyLXGRUe2&amp;id=Zr0Dv9dwZ&amp;id=sOiXdYVe6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare acquires Astro, but it’s still open source</strong>: Cloudflare just snapped up The Astro Technology Company, the creators of the Astro JavaScript web framework. Good news for Astro fans: it’s staying open source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. The entire Astro team is joining Cloudflare to focus solely on framework development, which means they can stop worrying about monetization. This move provides financial stability for Astro, addressing sustainability concerns, and coincides with the public beta launch of Astro 6. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=a23rECuU6&amp;id=sjblxSwgi&amp;id=yRAOJZmiR&amp;id=oWHYd6BqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>React compiler and new patterns are shaping the ecosystem</strong>: The React ecosystem is buzzing with updates on React 19.2 and the React Compiler, with a focus on modern Hook patterns and novel applications like 3D Blender scenes. React Aria also released new documentation and a component library, emphasizing accessibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D2DOQ44q3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New CSS features are coming to browsers</strong>: Get ready for new CSS features in 2026, including <code>sibling-index()</code> and <code>sibling_count()</code> for position-based calculations, <code>@container scroll-state()</code> for styling scroll states, <code>text-box</code> for trimming font spacing, and an enhanced <code>attr()</code> function. Chrome DevTools also now supports throttling individual network requests. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2a8HRxzCb&amp;id=fzPCRf2as" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun v1.3.6 brings performance and new APIs</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 is out with new APIs for tarball creation/extraction and JSONC parsing, plus significant performance boosts: <code>Response.json()</code> is 3.5x faster, <code>async/await</code> 15% faster, and <code>Promise.race</code> 30% faster. It also includes 45 bug fixes and improved Node.js compatibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Wx4br4Zyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vercel agent now offers on-demand code reviews</strong>: Vercel Agent now lets you trigger code reviews manually from GitHub pull request deployment tables, or set them to run automatically. This feature requires the Vercel GitHub App and aims to streamline the review process. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EobTrupL9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel Boost gets AI prompts for code simplification</strong>: Laravel Boost v1.8.10 now includes new AI prompts for code simplification and Livewire v4 upgrade assistance. The ‘Code Simplifier’ prompt, inspired by the Claude plugin, helps with Laravel code refactoring, and installation documentation has been improved. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TQr7IJii0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ESLint 2025 review shows growth and new features</strong>: ESLint expanded language support in 2025 with official CSS and HTML plugins, introduced multithreaded linting for 30-300% performance improvements, and integrated with AI tools like GitHub Copilot. Weekly npm downloads grew 65% to over 70 million. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2lLhf9kl2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pulumi journaling speeds up infrastructure operations</strong>: Pulumi introduced journaling, a new snapshotting approach that can speed up infrastructure operations by up to 20x for large stacks. This feature is currently opt-in for Pulumi Cloud users and aims to eliminate the serialization bottleneck of the old snapshot system. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cxlasSy81" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-powered web browser built in a week: innovation or just a lot of code?</strong>: Cursor’s CEO, Michael Truell, proudly announced building a web browser in a week using hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents, resulting in over 3 million lines of code. While it can render simple websites, it conveniently ‘lacks critical features such as robust security and accessibility’ and isn’t ‘production-ready.’ So, we’ve got a browser that’s basically a fancy demo, proving AI can generate a lot of code, but not necessarily anything useful or secure. Impressive, if your goal is quantity over quality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=UbZlY7YDE&amp;id=qHCb0ov8q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailwind CSS revenue crash: AI’s ‘help’ is killing business models?</strong>: Tailwind CSS is laying off 75% of its engineering staff and reporting an 80% revenue drop, blaming AI coding assistants for a 40% reduction in documentation visits. Apparently, AI is so ‘helpful’ that developers no longer need to visit documentation, thus destroying the primary revenue stream for paid product discovery. It’s almost like these AI tools are consuming content without giving back, creating a ‘paradox’ where they boost framework popularity while simultaneously gutting the businesses that create them. Who could have seen that coming? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=f3fYMXuKZ&amp;id=bNykMIpel" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The ‘disappearance’ of the junior developer: now they’re ‘AI architects’?</strong>: Reports claim junior developer roles are down 46-67% because AI automates entry-level coding. But don’t worry, aspiring devs, you’re not obsolete! You just need to become ‘AI architects’ who orchestrate AI systems and manage context windows. Because, you know, ‘orchestrating AI’ is totally the same as learning to code, and definitely not just a fancy way to say ‘prompt engineer’ until the next buzzword comes along. Good luck with that 12-month roadmap to AI architect stardom! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BlB3n2pFk&amp;id=dc9HNh5yX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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