Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session. Worth the entire read, but whats fascinating is that some engineer was given a problem of how to track users across apps and sessions and didn’t blink an eye at solving it.

With AI, code is becoming really cheap. This means that you can now build stuff that you only ever use once without feeling bad about it. Everything that you wish would make your current task easier can just be created out of thin air. Fits in with being more ambitious because the cost of writing code is zero. But knowing what code to write is priceless. Also some good ideas on gitworkrees and task delegation.

And that is where I’ve learned Postgres is probably one of the rare databases that supports Transactional DDL. MySQL, Maria, and Oracle don’t. I feel like Postgres has won the open source database world. The last time I reached for MySQL it was 2005 and ‘LAMP’ was the stack of choice. Quote Citation: TANIN, “One more reason to choose Postgres over MySQL”, JUN 14, 2025, https://tanin.nanakorn.com/one-more-reason-to-use-postgres-vs-mysql/

These statements betray a conceptual error: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not “understand” anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word. LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another.

The bad news is that once you start mixing and matching tools yourself there’s nothing those vendors can do to protect you! Any time you combine those three lethal ingredients together you are ripe for exploitation. With the rise of LLMs is now ripe for exploitation. Target your LLM to your email? What happens when there is mallicious prompts in plain text? Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.

Hiring of new grads by the 15 largest tech companies has fallen by more than 50% since 2019, according to a new report from VC firm SignalFire. While hiring for mid- and senior-level roles rebounded last year following mass layoffs across all levels in 2023, it declined at the entry level. The gap between the overall unemployment level and that of recent college grads recently reached an all-time high, according to census data.

GitHub has decided to gift open source with more AI contributions. You can press a button and GitHub Copilot will automatically generate a bug report for you — for any public project on the site! The irony here being if AI is so good at programming why doesn’t the button generate a .patch file? Oh thats right because someone still has to maintain the product. Can you imagine a software built by AI?

We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey over the years—we’re proud of the impact Pocket has had for our users and communities. I actually considered just using pocket instead of building this site and associated scripts to automate some things. But here it is less than 6 months later pocket decides to fold. And this was even a Paying service!

International Business Machines Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said the tech giant has used artificial intelligence, and specifically AI agents, to replace the work of a couple hundred human resources workers. As a result, it has hired more programmers and salespeople, he said. While there haven’t yet been widespread layoffs or downsizing as a result of AI across the economy, some business leaders have said they are holding down head count as they investigate the use of the technology.