Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
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Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…
I used an old-school security trick to catch prompt injection on AI agents
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GitHub - mariocandela/beelzebub: A secure low code honeypot framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.
A secure low code honeypot framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization. - mariocandela/beelzebub
Article: Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight
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Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight
On ambition, pressure, and survival inside large organizations
We’re not concerned enough about the death of the junior-level software engineer
https://medium.com/@austin-starks/the-death-of-the-code-monkey-why-i-fear-for-the-class-of-2026-13dbf531a76f
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We’re not concerned enough about the future of junior-level software engineering
Why I fear for the class of 2026
Why users cannot create Issues directly
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Why users cannot create Issues directly · Issue #3558 · ghostty-org/ghostty
Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...
Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
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Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success…
Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
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Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success…
We’re not concerned enough about the death of the junior-level software engineer
https://medium.com/@austin-starks/the-death-of-the-code-monkey-why-i-fear-for-the-class-of-2026-13dbf531a76f
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We’re not concerned enough about the future of junior-level software engineering
Why I fear for the class of 2026
Why users cannot create Issues directly
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
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Why users cannot create Issues directly · Issue #3558 · ghostty-org/ghostty
Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...
LLMs will never be alive or intelligent, and "agents" will never know and cater to our every need
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LLMs will never be alive or intelligent
And "agents" will never know and cater to our every need
Stackoverflow: Questions asked per month over time.
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
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From the programming community on Reddit: Stackoverflow: Questions asked per month over time.
Posted by lelanthran - 160 votes and 67 comments
We might have been slower to abandon Stack Overflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/abandoning-stackoverflow/
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We might have been slower to abandon Stack Overflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
What the **** does that mean?
Tailwind just laid off 75% of their engineering team
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
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feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor · Pull Request #2388 · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com
Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption.
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Extract text from MDX files, removing J...
Linus Torvalds: "The AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Linux-Kernel-AI-Slop
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Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel
Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
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IEEE Spectrum
AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?
IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware
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Promptarmor
IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
Vulnerabilities in IBMs Bob AI allow attackers to trigger the download and execution of malware via indirect prompt injection if users select auto-approve for even one known trusted command.
A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/02/a-new-worst-coder-has-entered-the-chat-vibe-coding-without-code-knowledge/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter&lid=pbpw8ug89ujl
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A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge - Stack Overflow