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Ruby on Rails creator @dhh says he wouldn’t recommend it in 2026 🤯, Safari 27 brings the goods in WebKit, and the new burning question of the agentic AI era is: do frameworks even matter anymore? Plus, @OpenAI agents hack Medicare. Cool cool.
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AI model Jev is betting that not every software decision needs an LLM, @reactjs 19.3 quietly levels up, and @Shopify is breaking up with @reactnative for Swift and Kotlin. Plus, Claude hacked @OpenAI, but ethically.
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The guys behind the Shai-Hulud @npmjs attacks have been arrested, @Shopify acquires @tailwindcss, and somehow the @WordPress / Mullenweg saga is back for another season.
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It’s maximum AI chaos as @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI both drop new models that are the best yet, we’re wondering how to tell if an LLM wrote something, and someone’s keeping a tally of AI agent felonies. Everything is fine.
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The latest AI discourse asks whether agents are making us worse devs, but maybe we're just playing by a new set of rules. @bunjavascript 1.4 arrives absolutely stacked, @OpenAI is throwing money at WebMCP to make the web more agent-friendly.
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. @Cloudflare built a browser specifically for AI agents, @cursor_ai ditches @solid_js for React, and @jherr's firsthand account of @RenderATL shows the weird state of web dev conferences in 2026.
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Hey folks, no new episode this week, but we'll be back next week with all the best news bites. Stay tuned!
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Next.js 16.3 promises “instant” nav, @tan_stack keeps shipping like it has something to prove, and Shai-Hulud reminds us @npmjs security remains a cursed timeline. Also: @AnthropicAI joins @OpenAI in the “our AI touched the internet” club.
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The State of CSS confirms Tailwind still rules while AI still can't write decent CSS, CodePen gets its biggest update in years, Octane asks: what if React was compiled from the start? Plus, GitHub embraces stacked PRs for the AI era.
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Bun went from Zig to Rust in just 11 days with an army of Claude sessions, Kimi K3 proves open-weight models are catching up fast, and OpenAI's sandbox escape reminds everyone why AI security is becoming a much bigger deal.
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AI can write code faster than ever - but somebody still has to review it. This week we unpack the real cost of AI-assisted dev: review fatigue, practical ways to keep quality high, and why many developers feel both unstoppable and burned out.
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Hey folks, stay tuned for a special episode we'll be publishing tomorrow about how to tackle all the AI generated code we're experiencing day to day.
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. @vercel decides Zig is the future of desktop apps, Vite+ enters beta to unify your toolchain, and Vercel Services wants to tame sprawling microservice architectures. Plus: Safari joins the MCP party and Claude becomes that coworker in Slack.
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. @vercel's giving @Shopify devs a lot more frontend freedom, Fable 5 is back after its government timeout, and @Meta released the design system behind 13,000 internal apps. Plus: @Cloudflare's AI crawler crackdown is about to get very real.
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. @NxDevTools invented the "synthetic monorepo" so AI agents can understand sprawling codebases, @deno_land Desktop is coming for @electronjs, and new hiring data suggests senior engineers are about to become even harder to find.
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. @AnthropicAI's new Fable model got yanked almost immediately after a US govt export restriction, a Chinese OS challenger claims Opus-level performance for a fraction of the cost, and MDN launches an MCP server to keep AI agents informed.
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. @reactjs is no longer under @Meta's GitHub, Safari 27 adds a pile of long-awaited platform features, and @ChromeDevTools keep evolving into an AI coworker. Plus: React Compiler gets rewritten in Rust because apparently every road leads there.
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Bot traffic has officially surpassed humans online, @Microsoft spent Build yelling "Developers!" with a fresh pile of AI tools, and Jam joins the absurdly crowded chat.
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. @deno_land launches Claw Patrol to stop AI agents nuking production, @npmjs tightens security with staged publishing, & @vercel invents a graph-first language for bots instead of humans. Plus: AI crawlers claim another longtime JS educator.
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Rust picked up another high-profile convert with @bunjavascript, @npmjs again tries to save us from ourselves, and @jherr tested humanity’s odds against AI in a head-to-head coding battle. Plus: Claude keeps winning hearts and terminals.
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