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Revenge Of The Junior Developer

- Steve Yegge tl;dr: Steve describes six waves of coding: traditional, completions, chat-based, coding agents, agent clusters, and agent fleets. While "vibe coding" goes viral, it's already being surpassed by coding agents that work independently with minimal supervision. Companies must budget for significant LLM costs or risk falling behind. Junior developers are adapting faster than seniors, gaining an advantage in this new landscape.

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Securing AI Agents: Authentication Patterns For Operator And Computer Using Models

- Zack Proser tl;dr: The evolution from smart chatbots to digital assistants capable of autonomously performing multi-step tasks such as ordering groceries, scraping job postings, or researching and filling our complex web forms is natural. However, these expanded capabilities carry significant authentication, security, and compliance ramifications. This article explores these issues and discusses the emerging ecosystem around computer-using operators.

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To Fork Or Not To Fork?

- Scott Dietzen tl;dr: Scott debates over IDE integration approaches, contrasting a plug-in strategy with competitors who fork VS Code. He argues that forking creates disadvantages: forcing IDE switches, losing support / ecosystem / updates, and causing compatibility issues. 

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AI Dev Tools Are Focused On The Wrong Problem

- Dennis Pilarinos tl;dr: The biggest challenge in software development isn’t writing code. It’s finding the context to know what code to write.

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Rethinking LLM Inference: Why Developer AI Needs A Different Approach

- Markus Rabe Carl Case tl;dr: “This post breaks down the challenges of inference for coding, explaining Augment’s approach to optimizing LLM inference, and how building our inference stack delivers superior quality and speed to our customers.”

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How I Use LLMs

- Andrej Karpathy tl;dr: “The example-driven, practical walkthrough of Large Language Models and their growing list of related features, as a new entry to my general audience series on LLMs. In this more practical followup, I take you through the many ways I use LLMs in my own life.”

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AI Dev Tools Are Focused On The Wrong Problem

- Dennis Pilarinos tl;dr: The biggest challenge in software development isn’t writing code. It’s finding the context to know what code to write.

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The Deadline Doom Loop

- James Hawkins tl;dr: “Most companies love to set artificial deadlines. They’re the easiest way to “increase urgency”. But they have a nasty habit of manifesting into meaningful deadlines. Deadlines that generate mountains of debt and slow you down over time. I call this the deadline doom loop and it’s one of the reasons we don’t have product deadlines at PostHog.” James discusses how the loop plays out and principles for escaping the loop.

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The End Of Programming As We Know It

- Tim O’Reilly tl;dr: “There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. That is not new.”

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[Webinar] Best practices for AI Agent Tool Calling

tl;dr: “Why doesn’t my AI agent call the right tool?” For AI agents that automate work across 3rd-party tools to be adopted, tool calling and tool use accuracy is critical. Join this webinar, where our dev advocate will cover the basics around AI agent tool calling as well as evaluations we ran to uncover optimizing tool calling performance. Register here - you’ll receive the recording and slides afterward, even if you can’t make it.

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