<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are still pretty dumb for real work</strong>: A new benchmark, Apex-Agents, from Mercor, tested leading AI models like Gemini 3 Flash and GPT-5.2 on complex white-collar tasks, revealing a maximum accuracy of only 24%. This suggests current AI agents can’t reliably replace knowledge workers in multi-tool, multi-domain tasks, despite year-over-year improvements. The critical challenge remains AI’s inability to reason effectively across various platforms and tools, a routine requirement for professionals. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OsmrZ9UpM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot gets an SDK for agentic workflows</strong>: GitHub released a multi-platform SDK for integrating Copilot’s agentic workflows into applications, supporting Python, TypeScript, Go, and .NET. This SDK enables embedding the same engine used by the Copilot CLI, offering functionalities like orchestration, planning, tool invocation, and programmatic file edits. It’s currently in technical preview and requires a GitHub Copilot subscription, signaling GitHub’s push to expand Copilot’s ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=GXXnGjqMp&amp;id=GuG7K2ryZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vimeo lays off staff after acquisition, shifts to AI video</strong>: Vimeo is undergoing significant layoffs following its $1.38 billion acquisition by Italian tech conglomerate Bending Spoons, which previously acquired Evernote and WeTransfer. The company has struggled against YouTube and recently pivoted to AI-powered video creation tools. While the exact number of affected employees isn’t disclosed, former executives confirm the workforce reduction is substantial, indicating a major restructuring under new ownership. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/t308ZGeVB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust 1.93.0 updates musl and improves inline assembly</strong>: Rust 1.93.0, released on January 22, 2026, updates the bundled musl libc to version 1.2.5, improving DNS resolution for static Linux binaries, and stabilizes 23 APIs while enhancing inline assembly handling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=wF6DW7Hp4&amp;id=O9g10PE7Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New AI-driven version control for machine-speed code</strong>: Atomic Software introduced a version control system tailored for AI-generated code, based on Pijul’s patch theory, to manage the validation and tracing bottlenecks created by machine-speed development, with a companion tool, Circuit Breaker, using petri nets for efficient workflow management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xcY01cgn0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Datadog unifies RUM and APM data with automatic retention filters</strong>: Datadog launched cross-product retention filters that automatically link Application Performance Monitoring (APM) traces to Real User Monitoring (RUM) sessions, unifying frontend and backend observability data for improved troubleshooting of user experience issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fs5040Sq6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vercel Sandboxes now support filesystem snapshots</strong>: Vercel Sandboxes introduced filesystem snapshot support, allowing users to capture and launch new sandbox environments from saved states, streamlining CI/CD workflows, testing, and rapid prototyping by eliminating repetitive setup tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Uv3Zx9otG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ClickHouse launches managed Postgres service with native integration</strong>: ClickHouse unveiled a new managed Postgres service, promising up to 10X faster performance for disk-bound workloads using NVMe storage, and offering native integration with ClickHouse via CDC and pg_clickhouse for a unified transactional and analytical data stack. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WHTgaLabX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Feast integrates with PyTorch for enhanced feature management</strong>: Feast, an open-source feature store, joined the PyTorch Ecosystem to provide a unified API for consistent feature management across AI model training and deployment, aiming to eliminate training-serving skew and accelerate deployment pipelines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dPG1hvjH4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux to remove HIPPI networking standard</strong>: Linux 7.0 will remove support for HIPPI (High Performance Parallel Interface), an unmaintained, decades-old networking standard for supercomputers, eliminating nearly 3,000 lines of code that haven’t been in real use for years. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kXLz11wmd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI Codex integrated into JetBrains IDEs: because we needed more AI in our IDEs</strong>: OpenAI Codex is now natively integrated into JetBrains IDEs, powered by GPT-5.2-Codex, offering adjustable autonomy levels and ‘reasoning budgets’ for tasks like refactoring and security detection. JetBrains says it’s free for a limited time, because nothing says ‘innovation’ like a subscription model for AI that’s already baked into your tools. Apparently, developers just can’t code without AI holding their hand now. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uAvdGTErT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google AI Mode reads your Gmail and Photos: because privacy is so last year</strong>: Google launched AI Mode for AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, allowing the AI to access users’ Gmail and Google Photos to suggest vacation itineraries or shopping items. Google assures us it ‘does not train on full Gmail inboxes or photo libraries,’ only ‘specific prompts and responses.’ So, just a little peek, then? What could possibly go wrong with an AI sifting through your most personal data for ‘personalized value’? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Kw6SK0Mqr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tesla launches unsupervised robotaxis in Miami: what could go wrong?</strong>: Waymo has launched its driverless robotaxi service to the general public in Miami, with plans to expand rapidly and achieve 1 million trips per week by year-end. This comes despite ongoing federal safety investigations into incidents, including robotaxis passing stopped school buses. But hey, who needs human drivers or regulatory oversight when you have ‘rapid expansion and innovation’? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=dBwgodiTL&amp;id=rPrfHRuqw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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