<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Salesforce deploys AI coding assistant to 20,000 engineers</strong>: Salesforce rolled out the Cursor AI coding assistant to its entire 20,000-strong engineering team, achieving over 90% adoption in months. This led to double-digit improvements in cycle time and code quality, along with an 85% reduction in legacy code coverage time, according to Salesforce. The company also reports increased unit test generation and enhanced product reliability, particularly for its new Agentforce platform, as detailed by Salesforce Engineering. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7KqSlBkW9&amp;id=uHSJtrcRQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-driven web traffic decline forces Tailwind Labs layoffs</strong>: Tailwind Labs laid off 75% of its developers due to a significant drop in website traffic and revenue. The company attributes this decline to AI-assisted coding tools, which are reducing the need for developers to search documentation sites. This trend threatens the financial sustainability of open-source projects that rely on web traffic for monetization, raising questions about the future of innovation in the open-source ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PBAzOX1yL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>cURL ends bug bounty program due to AI-generated spam</strong>: The cURL project is shutting down its bug bounty program, citing an overwhelming influx of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports. Daniel Stenberg, cURL’s maintainer, stated that the effort to filter this ‘garbage’ now outweighs the program’s benefits, despite having paid out over $100,000 for legitimate bugs. This move highlights a growing problem in open-source security, where AI tools are generating a flood of false positives, as reported by Elektroniktidningen. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=zNsgAYHqy&amp;id=ssDvZHbZq" 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 live streams migration to Laravel Cloud</strong>: Laravel News successfully migrated its production application from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud during a live YouTube stream, demonstrating all deployment steps, risk mitigation, and verification checks for developers interested in similar transitions. <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>PHPStan static analysis gets a speed boost</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 code snippet manager Snipplle</strong>: Snipplle is a new open-source code snippet manager built with Nuxt 4, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL, offering syntax highlighting, collections, workspaces, version control, CLI integration, and Docker support for self-hosting. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AIlcmWOAv&amp;id=Lhaif3YU8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS Transfer Family Terraform module adds web app support</strong>: The AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports deploying web applications, enabling file transfers to and from Amazon S3 via a web interface with configurable branding, federated authentication, and fine-grained permissions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oBG0qA6hP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kotlin 2.3 enhances performance and multiplatform support</strong>: Kotlin 2.3 introduces an unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, stable Clock and Instant types, experimental UUID v7 generation, and significant performance improvements for Kotlin Native and WebAssembly. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1q33ZUkes" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel 12.48.0 brings query builder aliases and more</strong>: Laravel 12.48.0 introduces query builder expression aliases, a BatchFinished event, JSON decoding flags in HTTP responses, conditional CORS middleware skipping, and isolated view compilation for parallel testing, alongside various bug fixes and type safety improvements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HOCHgCfJT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go developer satisfaction remains high, but onboarding lags</strong>: The 2025 Go Developer Survey shows 91% satisfaction with the language, praising its holistic platform and tooling, but highlights challenges with unclear best practices, missing features, and declining entry-level adoption due to documentation gaps. <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>AI will eliminate immigration, says Palantir CEO</strong>: Palantir CEO Alex Karp, speaking at Davos, boldly declared that AI will soon make large-scale immigration unnecessary for Western economies, except for ‘specialized talent.’ He also claimed Palantir’s AI can slash organizational costs by 80% and boost revenue, conveniently without any third-party evidence. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank and Gartner are busy pointing out that the ‘AI honeymoon is over’ and most CEOs aren’t seeing any returns. But hey, why let pesky facts get in the way of a good sales pitch? <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-powered shopping bots: eBay says ‘not on my watch’</strong>: eBay, in a stunning display of self-preservation, has updated its user agreement to explicitly ban AI-powered shopping bots that operate without human oversight. Apparently, these autonomous agents are threatening eBay’s precious revenue by driving down auction prices and reducing user engagement. While Google is out there launching its own ‘agentic shopping tools’ with claims of retailer support, eBay is drawing a line in the sand. Because nothing says ‘innovation’ like protecting your commission structure from the future. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pVV05ys2O" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-native CMS for live production websites: what could go wrong?</strong>: Strapi just announced <a href="http://Fimo.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Fimo.ai</a>, an ‘AI-native content management system’ for live production websites, promising real-time visual editing and instant rollbacks. It’s designed to let teams collaborate on active sites without traditional deployment steps, leveraging Neon’s Postgres for database branching. Because what every production website needs is an AI-powered system that allows ‘instant updates’ and ‘real-time visual editing’ without, you know, actual deployment steps or a proper review process. I’m sure the ‘in-built safety mechanisms’ will catch everything. Absolutely everything. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/f5IhxeEO5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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