<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools are a double-edged sword for code quality</strong>: A Carnegie Mellon University study of 807 GitHub repositories found that while AI coding assistants initially boosted productivity by 30-40%, this gain vanished after three months. Worse, static analysis warnings increased by 30% and code complexity rose over 40%, persisting long-term. This aligns with 2024 data from GitClear, suggesting that while tools like Cursor can help junior engineers navigate codebases, they also introduce ‘context collapse’ and degrade overall code quality if not carefully managed. Meanwhile, Salesforce reports 90% adoption of Cursor across 20,000 engineers, claiming double-digit gains in cycle time and code quality, though these claims lack independent verification. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EZUXhYwRZ&amp;id=7KqSlBkW9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LLVM and cURL push back on low-quality AI 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. Similarly, cURL ended its bug bounty program due to an overwhelming influx of ‘AI slop’ and ‘AI-generated nonsense,’ as reported by maintainer Daniel Stenberg. While some AI-assisted reports led to fixes, the sheer volume of poor submissions made triage unsustainable. This highlights a growing concern in open-source communities about maintaining code quality and project integrity against a tide of unvetted AI output. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DXhDzQ15v&amp;id=zNsgAYHqy&amp;id=ssDvZHbZq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon launches Bedrock AgentCore for AI agent deployment</strong>: Amazon has rolled out Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform designed for deploying and operating AI agents at scale with ‘zero infrastructure management.’ This modular service includes components for runtime, memory, gateway, code interpreter, browser interaction, observability, evaluation, identity, and policy. A starter CLI toolkit supports integration with popular frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, and Strands, aiming to streamline AI agent development and deployment within the AWS ecosystem. This move signals a push towards making AI agent orchestration more accessible and scalable for developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PbCI8QH1q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Reinforcement learning and LoRA advance LLM customization</strong>: Reinforcement learning (RL) is becoming central to enhancing LLM abilities, and when combined with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), it allows for rapid and compute-efficient experimentation, enabling mass production of personalized AI agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EKwyPDRul" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New CUDA API simplifies GPU programming</strong>: CUDA 13.1 introduces a single-call API for CUB, simplifying GPU primitive algorithms by automatically handling memory allocation with zero performance overhead, making it easier for developers to integrate into frameworks like PyTorch. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/p4Equ0mQW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bolna raises $6.3M for India-focused voice AI platform</strong>: Bolna, an India-based voice orchestration platform, secured $6.3 million in seed funding to expand its AI voice technology, which handles over 200,000 calls daily and addresses India-specific challenges like noise cancellation and mixed-language scenarios. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/w8hY3qaH3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>BlackIce toolkit targets AI security testing</strong>: BlackIce is a new open-source toolkit that bundles 14 AI security testing tools into a single Docker image, simplifying prompt injection, jailbreak detection, and data leakage testing, inspired by Kali Linux. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PSfiaCphA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LLM benchmarking reveals major API cost savings</strong>: Targeted benchmarking of LLMs on real customer support prompts, rather than generic leaderboards, can reduce API costs by 5-10x, as cheaper models often perform comparably to more expensive ones for specific tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x3aieeCav" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elixir framework Hologram gets new sponsor</strong>: Curiosum is now the main sponsor of Hologram, an Elixir framework that transpiles Elixir code to JavaScript for browser-side execution, aiming to accelerate its development and adoption for pure Elixir end-to-end applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ePz5bRXJH&amp;id=jyQtn5H4O" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go developer survey 2025 highlights satisfaction and challenges</strong>: The 2025 Go Developer Survey shows 91% satisfaction with Go’s cohesiveness and tooling, but developers still struggle with best practices, missing language features like enums, and finding trustworthy third-party modules, while AI-powered tools show mixed results for code quality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1aHMO98uB" 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, industry says ‘not so fast’</strong>: Palantir CEO Alex Karp, speaking at the World Economic Forum, boldly declared that AI will eliminate the need for large-scale immigration in Western economies, except for specialized roles. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank, Gartner, and PwC are all reporting that AI’s ‘honeymoon’ is over, with most CEOs seeing zero payoff from their AI investments. So, while Karp is busy selling the dream of AI-powered demographic shifts, the rest of the industry is still trying to figure out if AI can even balance a checkbook. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3s1vrBGbY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI world models vs. game engines: a clash of the titans (or just more buzzwords)</strong>: Apparently, real-time rendering and generative AI video models are ‘design opposites,’ with game engines focusing on efficiency and AI models on content creation speed. The article then speculates about ‘learned hallucinations’ and hybrid systems, without naming a single company, product, or providing any actual data. It’s almost as if someone just discovered two different ways to make digital stuff and decided it was a profound philosophical conflict worthy of a think piece, rather than just different tools for different jobs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OIj9HQhHA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ChatGPT UI replication: looks good, breaks fast</strong>: A developer found that ChatGPT can visually replicate Apple demo UIs, but the generated implementations ‘break under performance load’ because ChatGPT lacks understanding of underlying system constraints like SwiftUI’s performance management. So, it can draw a pretty picture, but it can’t actually build a house that stands up. Maybe we should stick to human architects for now, or at least give ChatGPT a proper mentor to teach it about gravity and load-bearing walls. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LQOYGhWvV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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