<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools are everywhere, but quality is still a question mark</strong>: AI coding assistants are now used by 92% of developers, generating up to 40% of new code, according to Security Boulevard. Tools like Cursor are showing impressive throughput, with Salesforce reporting double-digit improvements in cycle time and code quality after deploying Cursor to 20,000 engineers. However, a hands-on review of OpenCode found it underperforms on complex tasks and produces verbose, generic code. The consensus is that while AI can boost productivity for boilerplate, human oversight and strict git practices are crucial to prevent flawed output from entering codebases. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EHuoSn58k&amp;id=7KqSlBkW9&amp;id=4Q68q9tpN&amp;id=Bph7neqjl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI and Apple are racing to launch AI wearables</strong>: Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered wearable pin with dual cameras and three microphones, aiming for a 2027 launch with 20 million units. This move appears to accelerate in response to OpenAI’s own hardware plans: AI-powered earbuds, codenamed ‘Sweet Pea,’ expected in late 2026 with a custom 2nm processor and a target of 40-50 million units. Both companies are pushing for mass-market adoption, but the market demand for such devices remains uncertain, especially after Humane AI’s pin product failed within two years. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=fgglWe8Qn&amp;id=vOBU57mgd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI is straining global power and supply chains</strong>: The rapid growth of AI is putting immense pressure on global supply chains, particularly for power technology manufacturing. Semiconductor production facilities are at full capacity, and raw material scarcity is causing lead times to stretch from weeks to months. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, speaking at Davos, called the AI buildout the ‘largest infrastructure project in human history,’ spanning energy, chips, data centers, models, and applications. This massive demand is creating new jobs for skilled trades but also highlights the need for new manufacturing plants and enhanced supply chain visibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SfHWr5lfZ&amp;id=k9yDuYtiX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>New open-source tools for AI development and security</strong>: RubyLLM::Instrumentation is a new Ruby on Rails gem for tracking LLM operations, while BlackIce offers a containerized toolkit for AI security testing, bundling 14 tools for red teaming and penetration testing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=B1cAlIUwy&amp;id=PSfiaCphA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SwiftUI still has some nasty surprises</strong>: Developers are finding that SwiftUI can hide critical performance bugs and memory leaks, especially with asynchronous tasks, which traditional testing methods and Xcode diagnostics often miss, requiring explicit rendering metrics and careful task cancellation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=c9tVR6fSG&amp;id=t8prRLCAI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI is changing how we test software</strong>: GenAI systems require a shift from deterministic testing to ‘curatorial testing,’ focusing on semantic evaluation and continuous assessment due to their probabilistic outputs, while engineering challenges like context management and robust evaluation pipelines are critical for moving GenAI from proof-of-concept to production. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LRwVDCANf&amp;id=PgmW3e4un" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano, a compact MoE model</strong>: NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3 Nano, a 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model that uses only 3.6 billion active parameters, designed for 24GB VRAM hardware, though its full 1-million-token context window exceeds this limit on a single card. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/o2Y2OkLyO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vercel and WordPress add AI features</strong>: Vercel Agent now provides AI-generated code suggestions directly in the Vercel Dashboard for pull request reviews, while WordPress AI Experiments 0.2.0 introduces AI-powered excerpt generation and an ‘Abilities Explorer’ for registered AI capabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=93nUmFPYd&amp;id=e6wUPoYI2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New tools for modern web development</strong>: Firefox 147 now supports CSS Module Scripts for importing CSS directly in JavaScript, and nuqs is a new 6kB open-source library for synchronizing React application state with URL query parameters, supporting various frameworks including Next.js and Remix. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7EvuIZfDg&amp;id=ZeIjZxaxs&amp;id=zjqLhhiKK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI is changing the game for customer support</strong>: Bunq, Europe’s second-largest neobank, deployed Finn, an AI customer support assistant powered by Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude models, now managing 97% of support interactions with 82% fully automated and an average response time of 47 seconds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mMFFFln2H" 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 make immigration obsolete, says Palantir CEO</strong>: Palantir CEO Alex Karp, at Davos, declared AI will eliminate the need for large-scale immigration in Western economies, except for ‘specialized talent.’ He also claimed Palantir’s AI can cut organizational costs by 80%. Because, apparently, AI is not just a tool, it’s a magic wand that solves complex societal issues and delivers unprecedented ROI without any pesky third-party validation. <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 is eroding expertise and democratic institutions, apparently</strong>: A recent article claims AI systems are undermining universities, legal systems, and the free press by sidelining human judgment and shortening decision-making processes. It suggests AI isolates individuals and degrades transparency and accountability. So, apparently, AI isn’t just a tool; it’s a sentient, institution-destroying entity, and we’re all just helpless bystanders as it dismantles democracy, one LLM prompt at a time. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=zxareKd2O&amp;id=N5NjltfbY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>eBay bans AI shopping bots because… engagement?</strong>: eBay updated its user agreement to ban AI-powered shopping bots, citing concerns over ‘diminished user engagement’ and server load. They’re also worried about bots driving down auction prices, which, let’s be honest, is probably the real reason. Because nothing says ‘innovation’ like protecting your commission-based revenue model from efficient, autonomous agents, while Google is out there launching its own agentic shopping tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pVV05ys2O" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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