<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Laravel 12 launches official AI SDK and native shadcn templates</strong>: Laravel has solidified its lead in the AI-native backend race by releasing an official AI SDK that provides a consistent interface for text generation, embeddings, and multi-provider agents with automatic fallbacks. Simultaneously, shadcn/ui has released an official Laravel template, allowing developers to drop production-ready React design systems into PHP projects with a single command. According to Laravel News and Stefan Mischook, these updates shift the framework from a traditional MVC model to a comprehensive orchestration layer for agentic web applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=fqJ4PUxyc&amp;id=yJkKroBfV&amp;id=vpvv9IYPI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TypeScript 6.0 goes stable as the final JavaScript based release</strong>: TypeScript 6.0 has officially launched, serving as the final bridge before the Go-native compiler transition in version 7.0. This release introduces breaking default changes, including strict mode being enabled by default and empty type arrays, which can cut build times by up to 50 percent. As reported by Announcing TypeScript 6.0, the update also adds support for the Temporal API and ES2025 targets, modernizing the ecosystem for high-performance web development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=kynZFJI6r&amp;id=OcEvvfkzR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vite 8 and Rolldown bundler deliver 30x faster production builds</strong>: The Vue.js Amsterdam conference confirmed that Vite 8 has replaced its legacy esbuild and Rollup architecture with Rolldown, a unified bundler written in Rust. This shift provides a 10x to 30x performance boost for production builds while maintaining full plugin compatibility. VoidZero has also open-sourced Vite+, an all-in-one toolchain that bundles linting, formatting, and type-checking into a single binary to eliminate JavaScript toolchain bloat. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7YFolea9o&amp;id=dbyxVvRUE&amp;id=QG6z68w6t" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Prism Workers AI connects Laravel to Cloudflare’s edge models</strong>: A new open-source provider allows the Laravel AI SDK to route requests through Cloudflare Workers AI, supporting multi-step tool calling and reasoning models. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vbnbCooLn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Next.js 16.2 achieves 400 percent faster dev server startup</strong>: The latest release optimizes server component payload deserialization to significantly boost rendering speed and adds native context files for AI coding agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=pLH5NluEB&amp;id=OcEvvfkzR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Prompt Deck brings version control to Laravel AI prompts</strong>: This package manages AI prompts as versioned markdown files on disk, supporting variable interpolation and A/B testing for token usage and cost. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HLhWYIKDD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare Dynamic Workers enable secure execution of AI generated code</strong>: Using V8 isolates, these workers can spin up sandboxed environments 100x faster than containers to run untrusted code from AI agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eYSqS4YkC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PHP WebSocket server case study reveals long term production stability</strong>: A six-year retrospective on using ReactPHP and Ratchet shows how to handle real-time events at scale without event loop starvation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ayPqmGV1y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Storybook 10.3 introduces MCP server for React component libraries</strong>: The update provides AI agents with component metadata and accessibility docs, allowing them to reuse existing UI components autonomously. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x35UlTAAf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL 19 adds non text output to pg_dumpall</strong>: The database refresh introduces directory and tar formats for global dumps, enabling parallel restores and selective database recovery. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bxLwZMJJL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The Delve compliance scandal is a masterclass in fake trust</strong>: Delve, a YC-backed startup that raised $32M to ‘automate’ compliance, is accused of simply copy-pasting identical boilerplate into hundreds of SOC 2 reports. Investigative reports from Fake Compliance as a Service suggest they used Indian certification mills to rubber-stamp audits without actually checking a single server. It turns out ‘automated GRC’ was just a script that generated fake evidence for NASDAQ-traded companies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=48Uy5BKcM&amp;id=zmPU272WX&amp;id=S4r4Sj7sx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cursor’s Composer 2 is just a Chinese model in a trench coat</strong>: Cursor recently hyped its ‘GPT-5 tier’ Composer 2 model, only for users to discover it was actually built on Moonshot AI’s Kimi k2.5 without clear disclosure. While they claim their post-training is the secret sauce, hiding the base model’s origin is a classic move to inflate valuation during the AI arms race. Transparency is apparently the first thing to go when you’re trying to sell a rebranded wrapper as a breakthrough. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=6IlX0UUsy&amp;id=2O2HmWwMM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI tokens are the most insulting employee bonus yet</strong>: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang suggested that engineers should receive AI tokens worth half their salary as a ‘compensation pillar.’ Critics on X correctly pointed out that tokens don’t vest, don’t pay rent, and are essentially just a way for companies to force you to work ‘superhuman’ hours using their own compute. It’s the digital equivalent of being paid in company store scrip that expires if you don’t use it to generate more code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ryzsn8a9R" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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