<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Next.js 16.2 swaps JSON parsing for pure JavaScript walks</strong>: The latest Next.js release claims a 400% faster dev server startup by overhauling how it handles Server Component payloads. By replacing standard JSON.parse reviver callbacks with a recursive JavaScript walk for deserialization, HTML rendering speeds have improved by up to 60%. The update also formalizes AI integration by including an <a href="http://agents.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">agents.md</a> file in new projects to provide structured context for coding assistants. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pLH5NluEB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI acquires Astral to own the Python tooling stack</strong>: OpenAI has acquired Astral, the team behind high-performance Rust-based Python tools like uv and Ruff. While OpenAI promises to maintain these as open-source projects, the move strategically integrates critical developer infrastructure directly into the Codex ecosystem. This follows a broader industry trend of AI giants snapping up low-level tooling to tighten the loop between LLMs and local execution environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=lqMrRsYud&amp;id=G7iZQZ26W" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cursor launches Composer 2 with self-summarizing context</strong>: Cursor has released its third in-house model in five months, introducing a ‘self-summarization’ technique that compacts context windows to 1,000 tokens when limits are hit. This reinforcement learning approach reportedly reduces compaction errors by 50% compared to traditional sliding windows. Benchmarks shared by Cursor suggest the model is outperforming Claude 4.6 on terminal-heavy tasks while remaining significantly cheaper per million tokens.</li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>TanStack Start emerges as a Vite-based React 19 alternative to Next.js</strong>: Developers are reporting doubled shipping velocity after migrating to TanStack Start to escape Next.js App Router abstractions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4nwi9O4T1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Stitch 2.0 introduces AI-native vibe design canvas</strong>: The experimental tool now features an agent manager for parallel UI exploration and direct export to Figma or React code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ke9ZMEd7T" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wasmer Edge.js brings sandboxed Node.js to the edge via WebAssembly</strong>: The new runtime uses WASIX to isolate system calls, though it currently faces a 30% performance hit when fully sandboxed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qHzldup0J" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LangChain Open SWE framework codifies agentic coding architectures</strong>: This MIT-licensed toolset allows developers to run AI coding agents in isolated cloud sandboxes with full shell access. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eZFXj4R96" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PHPStan 2.2 to fix silent array key casting issues</strong>: A new non-decimal-int-string type will prevent PHP’s legacy behavior of silently converting string keys to integers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ayPqmGV1y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Avalonia MAUI brings .NET apps to Linux and WebAssembly</strong>: The new open-source backend maps MAUI abstractions to Avalonia controls, enabling cross-platform UI without code changes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wOaYwcJqb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wayland 1.25 stabilizes color management and content updates</strong>: The stable release includes fully documented color protocols and a new surface release request for better display handling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjG6ceHpw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The vibe coding productivity trap</strong>: While executives at Cisco and PwC are busy claiming AI can turn 15-year-old monoliths into microservices in a week, the reality is a surge in ‘vibe-coded’ garbage. Jellyfish reports that while PR throughput has doubled, code review processes are buckling under the weight of subtle, AI-generated flaws that look correct but fail in production. We aren’t shipping better software; we’re just generating technical debt at machine speed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0hn0P8EbP&amp;id=LJipAqA3r&amp;id=C77DjYGcj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Context rot is the new architectural ceiling</strong>: Despite the hype around million-token windows, researchers have quantified ‘context rot,’ where 60% of facts are lost after a single compression pass. Models from OpenAI and Anthropic are silently violating constraints with full confidence because they literally forgot them three turns ago. No amount of prompt engineering fixes the fact that these architectures are fundamentally leaky buckets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U6VsaoO3G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s personal health coach is a hallucination waiting to happen</strong>: Google is encouraging Fitbit users to upload their medical records so an LLM can act as a ‘personal health coach.’ Despite admitting that these models hallucinate and haven’t fully clarified where this sensitive data is stored, they’re pushing ahead with ‘validation processes.’ It’s a bold move to replace medical advice with a chatbot that might hallucinate your heart rate into a creative writing exercise. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NujER0LT3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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