<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools are changing the game, but not how you think</strong>: Salesforce deployed Cursor AI to 20,000 engineers, reporting double-digit improvements in cycle time and code quality, with 90% adoption. This aligns with Q1 2026 benchmarks showing AI coding tools increasing developer throughput, with Cursor leading in daily PR throughput and Claude in weekly/monthly usage. However, a hands-on review of OpenCode, a local LLM code generation tool, found it underperforms on complex tasks and greenfield projects, producing verbose, generic code, as reported by The Replay. This suggests that while AI can boost productivity for specific tasks, human expertise and oversight remain crucial, especially for quality and innovation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7KqSlBkW9&amp;id=XkFn8TQqF&amp;id=Bph7neqjl&amp;id=EHuoSn58k" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The EU is pushing for open source and digital sovereignty</strong>: The European Commission is seeking public input on mandating Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) adoption in the public sector to reduce dependency on non-EU software firms. This initiative aims to foster digital sovereignty by replacing proprietary software with open-source tools in education and government, as reported by the European Commission. This move could significantly impact the tech landscape, potentially creating new opportunities for EU-based FOSS companies and shifting market dynamics away from major US tech providers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bi5i4eszo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailscale’s control plane struggles with hypergrowth</strong>: Tailscale’s CEO addressed recent uptime issues, explaining that while the data plane remains resilient, the control plane’s message bus architecture, which maps each customer tailnet to a single coordination server, has led to management function outages during rapid expansion. The company plans architectural enhancements like improved sharding and geographically distributed control planes to boost resilience, as detailed in a company communication. This highlights the challenges of scaling critical infrastructure during ‘hypergrowth’ and the importance of robust control plane design. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/F6JvRyFcY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Laravel News migrates to Laravel Cloud live</strong>: Laravel News successfully migrated its production application from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud during a live YouTube stream, demonstrating deployment steps, risk reduction, and verification checks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=mmUNoPgPZ&amp;id=Y6tGAKXUQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New open-source tools for code snippet management and AI security testing</strong>: Snipplle, an open-source code snippet manager with version control and CLI integration, and BlackIce, a containerized toolkit for AI security testing, have both been released to streamline developer workflows and enhance security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AIlcmWOAv&amp;id=Lhaif3YU8&amp;id=PSfiaCphA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kotlin 2.3 and Laravel 12.48.0 bring new features and performance boosts</strong>: Kotlin 2.3 introduces an unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, and improved multiplatform support, while Laravel 12.48.0 adds query builder expression aliases, a BatchFinished event, and enhanced JSON decoding flags. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1q33ZUkes&amp;id=HOCHgCfJT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps</strong>: The AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now allows deploying web applications for file transfers to and from Amazon S3, complete with branding, federated authentication via IAM Identity Center, and fine-grained permissions using S3 Access Grants. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oBG0qA6hP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PHPStan 2.1.34 delivers faster static analysis</strong>: PHPStan 2.1.34 has been released, boasting a 25-40% increase in static analysis performance, which should positively impact developer productivity for PHP projects. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nNqA8xPSh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New open-source charting library leverages WebGPU</strong>: ChartGPU is an open-source TypeScript charting library that uses WebGPU for high-performance rendering of large datasets, supporting various chart types, interactions, and streaming data updates, with React bindings available. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bruP1nBn4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AdGuard open-sources TrustTunnel VPN protocol</strong>: AdGuard has open-sourced its proprietary VPN protocol, now called TrustTunnel, designed to evade detection and blocking by mimicking regular HTTPS traffic, optimized for mobile devices and unreliable networks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/66HApAE7f" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will solve all your problems, just ask Palantir</strong>: Palantir CEO Alex Karp, at Davos, claimed AI will eliminate the need for large-scale immigration and cut organizational costs by 80%, according to various reports. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank and Gartner are saying the AI ‘honeymoon is over’ and most CEOs aren’t seeing returns. So, either Palantir has magic AI, or someone’s selling a bridge. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3s1vrBGbY&amp;id=FLsBFoZv3&amp;id=FWpexauJL&amp;id=KOoayUI82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated code: the new gold rush or just more slop?</strong>: The cURL project is shutting down its bug bounty program because it’s drowning in low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports, as reported by Elektroniktidningen. Apparently, the ‘effort to filter garbage’ now outweighs the benefits. This comes as a hands-on review of OpenCode, a local LLM code generation tool, found it produces verbose, generic code and underperforms on complex tasks. So much for the AI coding revolution, looks like we’re just generating more work for ourselves. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=zNsgAYHqy&amp;id=ssDvZHbZq&amp;id=Bph7neqjl&amp;id=EHuoSn58k" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI sovereignty: it’s not where you put your data, it’s how you control your models</strong>: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, at Davos, redefined AI sovereignty as control over models trained with proprietary knowledge, rather than physical datacenter location, as reported by various sources. This conveniently shifts the focus from regulatory concerns about data residency to a more ‘technical’ definition. It’s almost as if a major cloud provider has a vested interest in downplaying geographical data restrictions. Who would’ve thought? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/n1gYMuFrF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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