<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding agents are changing software engineering, but not how you think</strong>: The rise of AI coding agents is forcing a shift in software development, with some open-source maintainers, like those for TL Draw and Curl, limiting external contributions due to an influx of low-quality, AI-generated pull requests. This ‘AI slop’ often lacks context and introduces technical debt, requiring more human effort to fix than it saves. Meanwhile, companies like Ramp are building internal AI agents, such as ‘Inspect,’ which now accounts for 30% of merged pull requests, operating in sandboxed VMs with full access to company resources. This suggests that while AI can accelerate routine tasks, deep human expertise remains critical for architectural understanding, complex problem-solving, and maintaining system integrity, as highlighted by Zed’s Blog. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0fyNmKnQE&amp;id=AnhMtsEYf&amp;id=DczaKkmGw&amp;id=KfJ8s7nDm&amp;id=NagkQXPrh&amp;id=dSFznJ0W1&amp;id=zJhxrzVIY&amp;id=9Rmqfgu76&amp;id=TFZmmg40D&amp;id=xUDvcEt3P" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google is restructuring its programmable search engine, forcing users to Vertex AI</strong>: Google is overhauling its Programmable Search Engine products, effective January 1, 2027. The free Programmable Search Element will be limited to 50 domains, pushing users needing broader search capabilities to Vertex AI Search or bespoke enterprise solutions. This move, announced on Google’s Programmable Search Engine Blog, impacts webmasters and developers, forcing a transition for existing users with broader configurations. Google has offered no explanation for the change, leaving users to speculate on the rationale behind this significant shift. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DC2sDltji" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft gave BitLocker keys to the FBI, raising privacy concerns</strong>: In a first publicly known instance, Microsoft provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI to decrypt three laptops during a fraud investigation in January 2026. This occurred because, by default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud when users set up the encryption with a Microsoft account. While users can opt for local storage, most don’t, exposing their encrypted data to legal disclosures and potential hacking risks if Microsoft’s cloud is compromised, according to security experts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6Aq315WBk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>vLLM-SR launches Mixture-of-Models on AMD GPUs</strong>: vLLM Semantic Router (vLLM-SR) v0.1 introduces a Mixture-of-Models (MoM) architecture for intelligent routing across specialized LLMs, deployed on AMD MI300X and MI355X GPUs, routing queries based on semantic signals to models like Qwen3-235B for math and DeepSeek-V3.2 for coding. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=WCsxS7S7s&amp;id=WCsxS7S7s" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 brings null safety and new integrations</strong>: The Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 milestone release introduces null safety across core APIs using JSpecify, updates the Model Context Protocol SDK, and adds new vector store integrations with Amazon S3, Infinispan, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base, alongside Redis-based semantic caching and structured output support for Mistral AI and Ollama. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7qw3Pandm&amp;id=7qw3Pandm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenTelemetry eBPF roadmap targets stable 1.0 release</strong>: The OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation SIG has outlined its 2026 roadmap, aiming for a stable 1.0 release with expanded protocol support for messaging systems (MQTT, AMQP, NATS), enhanced NoSQL database support (MongoDB), and improved cloud service SDKs for AWS, GCP, and Azure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mC6R9vti3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust-powered Oxfmt alpha released, 30x faster than Prettier</strong>: VoidZero released Oxfmt alpha, a Rust-based code formatter that boasts 30x faster performance than Prettier while maintaining 95% compatibility, built on the Oxc compiler stack and supporting major Prettier configuration options. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CeKnBbrIS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Databricks Delta Sharing now integrates Apache Iceberg</strong>: Databricks now supports Apache Iceberg in Delta Sharing, allowing users to share Delta tables with Iceberg-compatible clients like Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark via the Iceberg REST Catalog API, eliminating the need for manual data exports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=hqDVaLN8F&amp;id=hqDVaLN8F" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub enhances pull request ‘Files changed’ page</strong>: GitHub has made its improved ‘Files changed’ page the default for all users, allowing comments on any line of code, providing an overview panel for PR descriptions, and offering a resizable file tree with comment and error indicators, all aimed at streamlining developer workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0EF6M9haP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel News boosts performance with Cloudflare caching</strong>: Jason McCreary demonstrated how Laravel News achieved significant performance gains by using Cloudflare page caching for static content, reducing response times from hundreds of milliseconds to around 40ms and cutting infrastructure costs, primarily by optimizing Laravel’s default settings and swapping Livewire components for Blade where possible. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uyivTZsPN" 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 replace software engineers in 6-12 months, says Anthropic CEO</strong>: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, speaking at the World Economic Forum, boldly predicted that AI models could handle most software engineering tasks within 6-12 months, claiming Anthropic engineers already edit AI-generated code rather than writing it from scratch. While he admitted uncertainty, this aggressive timeline conveniently overlooks the persistent challenges of transferring tacit human knowledge to AI, a bottleneck that even technical sources acknowledge. So, if you’re a software engineer, better start practicing your prompt-editing skills, because apparently, your days of actual coding are numbered. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0fyNmKnQE&amp;id=AnhMtsEYf&amp;id=DczaKkmGw&amp;id=KfJ8s7nDm&amp;id=NagkQXPrh&amp;id=dSFznJ0W1&amp;id=zJhxrzVIY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Nvidia’s copper miscalculation: a gigawatt data center needs how much?</strong>: Nvidia, in a recent paper, managed to claim a gigawatt-scale data center would require a whopping 500,000 tons of copper. Turns out, that’s just a tiny unit conversion error, and the actual figure is closer to 200 metric tons. This blunder, highlighted by critics, is being compared to classic engineering screw-ups like the Gimli Glider. It makes you wonder if anyone at Nvidia bothered to double-check their numbers, or if they’re just hoping we’ll all be too impressed by ‘gigawatt-scale’ to notice the basic math fail. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=kgMlKXNFr&amp;id=kgMlKXNFr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TikTok’s new US ownership means more data collection, because freedom</strong>: Under its new US ownership, TikTok has updated its privacy policy to enable precise GPS location collection, explicit tracking of AI user interactions (prompts and generated content), and expanded ad network data sharing. Users were, of course, required to accept these changes to continue using the app. The article frames this as a straightforward policy update, but it’s a curious definition of ‘freedom’ when US ownership leads to more pervasive data collection, especially after all the previous privacy concerns. Guess some things never change, regardless of who’s in charge. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BFPMM0rX7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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