<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding agents are here, and they’re hungry for power and data</strong>: Anthropic’s Claude Code is evolving into a terminal-based agent, transforming developer workflows by analyzing entire projects and generating documentation. However, Anthropic’s recent ban on third-party apps using subsidized API pricing has sparked controversy, pushing developers towards open-source alternatives like OpenCode. Meanwhile, security experts warn that AI coding agents embedded in chat platforms like Slack introduce significant risks, including prompt injection attacks and credential exposure, as 85% of developers now use AI tools, with 41% of code being AI-generated. Adding to the concerns, a typical Claude Code session consumes about 41 Wh, comparable to running a dishwasher, highlighting the environmental impact of these tools, according to Tech Lead Digest. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9XKw67enr&amp;id=3wv1aKzIr&amp;id=ex1Cm3GIg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s new sideloading friction and Go JSON Schema for LLMs</strong>: Google is implementing a ‘high-friction’ sideloading process for Android, adding extra steps for users installing apps from unverified developers. While Google frames this as an ‘Accountability Layer’ for risk education, power users are concerned about diminished ease of use. In other Google news, they’ve released jsonschema-go, a JSON Schema package for Go, specifically targeting structured interactions with large language models (LLMs). This package, already in production within Google’s MCP Go SDK, provides schema creation, validation, and inference from Go types, positioning JSON Schema as a standard for LLM development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ICjHMVGeX&amp;id=QUtLwKAlO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Europe pushes for digital sovereignty amid cloud reliance</strong>: Europe is heavily dependent on US cloud providers, with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud controlling about 70% of the region’s market. This reliance raises concerns about service disruptions and geopolitical leverage, prompting European officials to frame digital infrastructure as critical. Countries like Germany, France, and Sweden are developing sovereign digital platforms, and the EU is drafting a cloud sovereignty framework and a Cloud and AI Development Act to mandate data localization and enhance security, aiming to reduce foreign dependency and safeguard citizen data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BxeJ5ByjW&amp;id=sCcT14y3N" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Linux 7.0 gets Qualcomm and AMD GPU support</strong>: The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel will include support for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 display hardware and Adreno 225 GPUs, alongside AMD graphics driver fixes for AMDGPU and AMDKFD, covering RDNA4 and other generations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LVxtNaVxq&amp;id=cxhDtp9rh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PHPStan 2.1.34 delivers major performance boost</strong>: PHPStan 2.1.34, a static analysis tool for PHP, now runs 25-40% faster on real-world projects, with internal benchmarks showing up to a 50% reduction in runtime, significantly shortening CI pipelines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hEVb27hAV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL as a dead letter queue at Wayfair</strong>: Wayfair is using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for its event-driven systems, redirecting failed Kafka events to a PostgreSQL table for improved visibility, queryability, and operational simplicity in error handling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eKm9n1imv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Turbopuffer ANN v3 achieves low latency on massive datasets</strong>: Turbopuffer’s ANN v3 system boasts 200ms p99 query latency for 100 billion vectors at 1,000 QPS, utilizing hierarchical clustering, binary quantization for 16-32x compression, and selective reranking to maintain 92% recall. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EHAeemnne" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New macOS library for tab bar and split pane functionality</strong>: Bonsplit, a new SwiftUI-based macOS library, offers a customizable tab bar with split pane operations, 120fps animations, drag-and-drop reordering, keyboard shortcuts, and programmatic control over tab and pane states. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EwZlNqIYw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud opens Iceberg REST Catalog for public datasets</strong>: Google Cloud now provides read-only access to public datasets via the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog through BigLake, allowing users to query data with Spark, Trino, Flink, and BigQuery without infrastructure setup. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tn371FITl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Emacs diagnostic system transitions to flymake</strong>: Emacs is transitioning from flycheck to flymake for on-the-fly syntax checking, requiring users to enable flymake-mode and adjust configurations for eglot and built-in packages to ensure proper diagnostic functionality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/akOz9vhAD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding agents: the free ride is over, now pay up</strong>: Remember when AI coding was going to be free and revolutionize everything? Well, Grok Code Fast just killed its free tier, and now everyone’s scrambling to figure out how much this ‘productivity’ actually costs. Apparently, heavy users are looking at $100-200 a month, and those ‘VC-subsidized’ subscriptions are just loss leaders waiting to hike prices. So much for the AI revolution being cheap; turns out, someone still has to pay for all that ‘autonomous’ code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9XKw67enr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Encrypted quantum cloning: because the no-cloning theorem was just a suggestion</strong>: A new quantum protocol claims to enable ‘encrypted cloning’ of quantum states, supposedly circumventing the no-cloning theorem. This ‘breakthrough’ promises quantum data storage and secure communications, but conveniently, no specific researchers, institutions, or technical details on how it defies a foundational quantum mechanics principle are provided. It’s almost as if they’re hoping we’ll just take their word for it without any pesky independent verification. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/z7OYuDS7t" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will write all the code, say the guys who wrote all the code</strong>: Ryan Dahl (Node.js creator) and Linus Torvalds (Linux creator) are now claiming the ‘era of humans writing code is over,’ with AI taking over direct code generation. It’s a bold prediction from two guys who made their careers writing a lot of code. While they pivot to ‘system architecture’ and ‘code quality assurance,’ one has to wonder if this is genuine foresight or just a convenient way to stay relevant while junior developers ponder their future in an AI-dominated world. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lMnVwtEMR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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