<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools: hype vs reality</strong>: AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are boosting developer velocity by 55% but at a cost: 7.2% lower delivery stability and 322% more security vulnerabilities, according to research. While some claim 10-100x productivity gains for well-defined tasks, others, like Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson, find them unreliable and unable to match junior developers in understanding system architecture. The consensus, as reported by METR, is that experienced open-source developers see negligible or negative productivity gains due to the time spent verifying AI output and maintaining quality standards. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0fzwUL3Um&amp;id=15Mjf12HP&amp;id=2IKuR9DJZ&amp;id=3DI7vnha4&amp;id=3sM5oeueQ&amp;id=AJzG7x8FZ&amp;id=AS53pzdrZ&amp;id=ATZPMmQn8&amp;id=DdiXGTqPN&amp;id=EqMZfdLoq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Intune enforces mandatory app updates</strong>: Microsoft Intune will require administrators to update iOS and Android enterprise apps to the latest SDK versions by January 19, 2026. Apps failing to meet these requirements will be blocked from launching, impacting both Microsoft and third-party applications. This move, as reported by multiple sources, aims to enhance security with features like PIN enforcement and biometric authentication, but unprepared organizations risk immediate service interruptions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PNEoUht10" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust’s value proposition shifts to program correctness</strong>: Socket has announced general availability for Rust and Cargo support, offering dependency analysis and SBOM generation to address supply chain threats beyond memory safety. Concurrently, Helge Penne argues that Rust’s primary value lies not just in memory safety, but in the program correctness enforced by its static type system, which reduces bugs and enables ‘fearless refactoring.’ This suggests a growing recognition that Rust’s benefits extend to overall code quality and maintainability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=O8W5FyqYs&amp;id=UzbpNQhI8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>PHP 8.4 breaks legacy code with http_build_query changes</strong>: PHP 8.4 introduced a backward-incompatible change in <code>http_build_query()</code> that can break legacy code by altering how enums are serialized, leading to unexpected errors for developers upgrading. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=FEB00NeSK&amp;id=JGaGDggzi&amp;id=WxxatAu48&amp;id=yD7tXoOfp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0 drops legacy browser support</strong>: jQuery 4.0 has been released, marking its 20th anniversary with a major cleanup that removes deprecated features and drops support for Internet Explorer 10 and older versions, focusing on modernization and security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5SOCKxGlX&amp;id=dThF1vPz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft open-sources XAML Studio</strong>: Microsoft has open-sourced XAML Studio under the .NET Foundation, making its lightweight prototyping tool for XAML UI development available on GitHub for community contributions and deeper integration with WinUI 3. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUJrXK08w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab releases Duo Agent Platform for AI orchestration</strong>: GitLab 18.8 introduces the Duo Agent Platform, enabling orchestration of multiple AI agents across the software development lifecycle, including a Planner Agent and a Security Analyst Agent for automated vulnerability triage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R9WyVAVPv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel updates LLM-Scaler-Omni for Arc Graphics</strong>: Intel has updated its LLM-Scaler-Omni product to improve support for ComfyUI and SGLang on Intel Arc Graphics hardware, enhancing multi-modal generative AI capabilities for image, voice, and video generation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XBX3pzO5M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft patches Windows 11 shutdown bug</strong>: Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update (KB5077797) for Windows 11 23H2 to fix a critical bug from the January Patch Tuesday that prevented proper shutdown, restart, or hibernation, also addressing Remote Desktop authentication issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u2UYa6XNM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New language models GLM-4.7-Flash and Differential Transformer V2</strong>: GLM-4.7-Flash, a 30B-A3B Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, and Differential Transformer V2, with a revamped attention mechanism, are new language models focused on efficient deployment and improved training stability, respectively. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0sHlXeafO&amp;id=a35LKDHC2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI website builders: shipping apps or just hot air?</strong>: Apparently, we now have ‘agentic AI website builders’ that ‘actually ship’ full-stack applications. Because, you know, the problem with web development was always the lack of tools that promise to do everything for you without any actual coding background. I’m sure these ‘zero-config’ wonders will totally solve all our problems, right up until the point where you need to debug something beyond a basic CRUD app. But hey, at least you can say an AI ‘built’ it. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=e3oUC0g8q&amp;id=URKNqvn9u" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The incredible overcomplexity of the Shadcn radio button</strong>: In a stunning display of modern web development, UI libraries like Shadcn and Radix have managed to turn a simple HTML radio button into a multi-dependency, hundreds-of-lines-of-code monstrosity. Apparently, native HTML inputs, which have worked perfectly for 30 years, are just too basic. Why use <code>appearance: none</code> when you can rebuild the entire component from scratch with ARIA attributes, increasing cognitive load and degrading performance? Truly revolutionary. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cuZVekEgv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered coding for beginners: the new ‘vibe coding’</strong>: A new book promises to teach ‘vibe coding’ for video games using Python and AI assistants, claiming complete beginners can build functional games with just AI prompts. Because nothing says ‘engineering excellence’ like letting an LLM write your game code without understanding the fundamentals. I’m sure this will produce robust, maintainable, and bug-free games, and definitely won’t lead to a generation of developers who can’t actually code their way out of a paper bag. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LklGkgpse&amp;id=LpF1NSIQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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