AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
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AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can’t Replace Junior Devs
AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back on AI replacing junior developers and explains how AI should be used in the workplace.
MI6 (British Intelligence equivalent to the CIA) will be requiring new agents to learn how to code in Python. Not only that, but they're widely publicizing it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/mi6_chief_well_be_as/
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MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian
: New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'
Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0ae02ba831da2b707905f4e602e43f8507b8cc
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From the programming community on Reddit: Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code.
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AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs
https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report
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AI vs human code gen report: AI code creates 1.7x more issues
We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/github_charge_dev_own_hardware/?td=rt-3a
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GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
updated: Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
How Apollo 11’s onboard software handled overloads in real time lessons from Margaret Hamilton’s work
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I found the stupidest take on Vibe Coding
https://www.designgurus.io/blog/vibe-coding-guide?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23163907085&gbraid=0AAAAADME9yrwhh3Pn4emui6N9e6TSIGXY&gclid=Cj0KCQiAjJTKBhCjARIsAIMC4496p8jeDlvlPl7NzYAKygn6pb3Uu8ETEcUnO-OXzcajV4U6-B0Ec9IaAi2FEALw_wcB
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Vibe Coding 101: A Beginner’s Guide to AI-Assisted Development
Master the key habits of vibe coding and level up your coding style with simple examples and easy steps.
AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html
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Microsoft to move away from C/C++ to Rust using AI assisted coding
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf
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Principal Software Engineer (CoreAI) | Microsoft Careers | Galen Hunt | 31 comments
Update:
It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended... with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.
Just to clarify... Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI.
My team’s project is a research project. We are building…
It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended... with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.
Just to clarify... Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI.
My team’s project is a research project. We are building…
Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/google-boomerang-year-20percent-ai-software-devs-hired-2025-ex-employees.html
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Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees
As competition heats up for AI talent, Google turned to hiring more so-called boomerang employees in 2025.
i wrote a code editor in C and now i'm a changed man
https://github.com/thisismars-x/light
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GitHub - thisismars-x/light: text editor made for me, by me
text editor made for me, by me. Contribute to thisismars-x/light development by creating an account on GitHub.
PatchworkOS Is a From-Scratch OS That Follows 'Everything Is a File' More Strictly than UNIX: An Overview of Sockets, Spawning Processes, and Notes (Signals)
https://github.com/KaiNorberg/PatchworkOS
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GitHub - KaiNorberg/PatchworkOS: A modular, non-POSIX operating system for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly. Intended…
A modular, non-POSIX operating system for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly. Intended to be an educational and experimental project that rigorously follows a Plan9-style "everyt...
Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/clever-code/
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Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am
What the **** does that mean?
Programming Books I'll be reading in 2026.
https://sushantdhiman.substack.com/p/cs-books-ill-be-reading-in-2026
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CS Books I'll be reading in 2026.
Bye Bye 2025
Lua 5.5 released with declarations for global variables, garbage collection improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lua-5.5-Released
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Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements
Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable noscripting language.
How 12 comparisons can make integer sorting 30x faster
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GitHub - Cranot/tieredsort: A fast, header-only C++17 sorting library for numeric types. 3.6x faster than std::sort, up to 21x…
A fast, header-only C++17 sorting library for numeric types. 3.6x faster than std::sort, up to 21x on dense data - Cranot/tieredsort
LLVM considering an AI tool policy, AI bot for fixing build system breakage proposed
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LLVM Considering An AI Tool Policy, AI Bot For Fixing Build System Breakage Proposed
Last week a request for comments (RFC) was issued around establishing an LLVM AI Tool Use Policy
How We Reduced a 1.5GB Database by 99%
https://cardogio.substack.com/p/database-optimization-corgi
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How We Reduced a 1.5GB Database by 99%
A deep technical dive into optimizing the NHTSA VPIC database for offline VIN decoding across Node.js, browsers, and edge computing.