<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools: productivity gains, quality concerns, and shifting roles</strong>: A Q1 2026 benchmark across 219 companies shows AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude are boosting developer throughput, with Cursor increasing daily individual throughput by 46%. However, a Carnegie Mellon University study found that while initial productivity spikes, code quality declines, with static analysis warnings up 30% and complexity rising over 40% long-term. This suggests developers need to adapt to a ‘VC mindset’—managing AI agents and focusing on high-level architecture and critical thinking, as AI takes over entry-level coding tasks, according to TechCrunch and The Register. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=XkFn8TQqF&amp;id=BJsnyHclD&amp;id=EZUXhYwRZ&amp;id=HWjGJHh6I&amp;id=7KqSlBkW9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI addresses Stargate datacenter concerns amid local pushback</strong>: OpenAI is publicly addressing community concerns about its $500 billion Stargate datacenter project, pledging to mitigate environmental impacts like electricity and water consumption. The company commits to self-funded energy infrastructure and closed-loop cooling systems, while promising workforce development programs. This comes as 20 US datacenter projects were blocked or delayed in Q2 2025 due to local opposition, highlighting growing scrutiny over the environmental footprint of large-scale AI infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/O0VoWxWDb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical vulnerabilities found in Chainlit AI framework</strong>: Two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-22218, CVE-2026-22219) in Chainlit, a Python-based AI chatbot framework with millions of downloads, allow unauthenticated attackers to read any file on the server and perform CSRF/SSRF attacks. This could lead to the exfiltration of API keys, credentials, and database contents, enabling lateral movement within enterprise networks. Users are urged to upgrade to Chainlit version 2.9.4 immediately to patch these flaws. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/I9vckVFsM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Databricks scales feature flagging with SAFE platform</strong>: Databricks developed SAFE, an in-house feature flagging platform handling over 300 million evaluations per second with low latency, managing 25,000 active flags across hundreds of services by decoupling code deployment from feature enablement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EfIBAJOrr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mesa 26.0-rc1 brings major GPU driver enhancements</strong>: Mesa 26.0-rc1 has been released, featuring significant improvements to AMD’s RADV, Intel’s ANV, and NVIDIA’s NVK Vulkan drivers, including new API extensions and video encoding capabilities for RADV, with the stable release expected in February 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xa7zoapmT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LLVM restricts unchecked AI-assisted code contributions</strong>: The LLVM compiler project has implemented a ‘human in the loop’ policy, banning AI-generated code contributions without thorough human review, citing a surge in low-quality submissions and aiming to preserve project quality and beginner learning opportunities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DXhDzQ15v" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare patches WAF bypass vulnerability</strong>: Cloudflare fixed a vulnerability in its Web Application Firewall (WAF) ACME validation logic that allowed attackers to bypass security rules and access origin servers directly by exploiting improper validation of ACME challenge tokens. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PoZiSIcPJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon launches Bedrock AgentCore for AI agent deployment</strong>: Amazon introduced Bedrock AgentCore, a platform for deploying and operating AI agents with zero infrastructure management, offering modular services like Runtime, Memory, and Code Interpreter, along with a CLI toolkit for rapid creation and integration with popular frameworks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PbCI8QH1q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PyTorch 2.10 expands AMD ROCm and Intel GPU support</strong>: PyTorch 2.10 has been released, primarily enhancing support and performance for AMD ROCm and Intel GPUs to improve hardware compatibility within the deep learning ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qtIrJcChn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>BlackIce toolkit targets AI security testing</strong>: BlackIce is an open-source Dockerized toolkit bundling 14 AI security testing tools, designed to simplify prompt injection, jailbreak detection, data leakage, and adversarial example creation, mapping functionalities to MITRE ATLAS and DASF frameworks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PSfiaCphA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Palantir CEO says AI will fix immigration. Sure, Jan.</strong>: Palantir CEO Alex Karp, speaking at the World Economic Forum, declared that AI will eliminate the need for large-scale immigration in Western economies, except for specialized roles. This bold claim comes as Deutsche Bank, Gartner, and PwC all report widespread industry skepticism and minimal ROI from AI investments. So, while everyone else is still trying to figure out how to make AI actually work, Karp’s already got it solving global labor and immigration issues. Impressive, if you ignore reality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3s1vrBGbY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Netflix’s ‘strong uptake’ in casual gaming: 10% of eligible users. Wow.</strong>: Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters is touting ‘strong uptake’ and ‘strong engagement’ for their cloud-based casual games like Boggle and Pictionary, which have reached a whopping 10% of eligible subscribers. Meanwhile, they’re reportedly trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s games division for $82.7 billion. It seems ‘strong uptake’ for Netflix means a fraction of their user base playing Boggle, while their real strategy is to throw billions at acquisitions. Clearly, the future of gaming is in party games and massive M&amp;A, not, you know, actual game development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SBSWaa9fL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI world models vs. game engines: a philosophical debate for the ages</strong>: Apparently, ‘real-time rendering and generative AI video models are described as design opposites,’ with game engines focusing on efficiency and AI models on content creation speed. The article then goes on to ponder the deep philosophical implications of ‘learned hallucinations’ in AI. It’s a fascinating discussion, if you enjoy abstract hand-waving about future hybrid systems without a single concrete example, company, or benchmark. Because nothing says ‘tech insight’ like a purely theoretical debate about things that don’t exist yet. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OIj9HQhHA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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