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A single news page weighing more than Windows 95. An engineer who failed an interview for knowing too much. And the uncomfortable truth that half of AI-generated code passes benchmarks but gets rejected by the humans who actually maintain the repos. This week's picks are the kind of reads that make you close your IDE for 20 minutes - and come back sharper.
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Four pillars that allow teams to move faster while staying secure AI is transforming how software is built & delivered, but speed without strong platform controls can increase risk. This AWS-sponsored Harvard Business Review Analytic Services whitepaper outlines four critical pillars for using AI safely to accelerate delivery.
Learn how leading engineering teams reduce time-to-market, lower defect escape, & contain supply-chain risk. Explore practical adoption strategies & real-world results from organizations that have successfully implemented AI at scale. |
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đź”– The Reading Room
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Introducing JetBrains Central: An Open System for Agentic Software Development
JetBrains unveiled Central, a new platform that acts as the control and execution plane for AI agent-driven software development, connecting IDEs, agents from any vendor, and CI/CD infrastructure into one governance layer. With their AI Pulse survey showing 90% of developers use AI at work but only 22% use coding agents, Central aims to close that gap.
By Oleg Koverznev → | |
Inside the Grind: The SF Startup Racing to Build an AI Software Engineer
This deep profile of Cognition, the $10 billion startup behind Devin, covers the company’s explosive growth to 200 employees after acquiring Windsurf, and its enterprise traction with Goldman Sachs, Citi, and NASA. It paints a vivid picture of the AI coding landscape where Cursor and Claude Code have each surpassed $2 billion in revenue.
By SF Standard → | |
Beyond border-radius: What The CSS corner-shape Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
​The new CSS corner-shape property (Chrome 139+) finally enables bevel, scoop, squircle, and notch corners without clip-path hacks or SVG masks. This article includes progressive-enhancement demos for pricing pages, testimonial cards, and a music player UI.
By Smashing Magazine → | |
Moving From Moment.js to the JS Temporal API
​With Temporal reaching Stage 4 of TC39 and shipping in Chrome 144+ and Firefox 139+, Joe Attardi provides practical migration recipes for teams still on Moment.js. The article walks through the key Temporal objects and shows idiomatic replacements for the most common date/time patterns.
By Joe Attardi → | |
Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work
This W3C Group Note examines how LLMs can benefit the standards process, from proof-of-concept demos to test writing, while flagging risks like verbosity flooding, loss of the manual scribing tradition, and disproportionate climate impact. A thoughtful take on AI’s role in building the open web.
By W3C Advisory Board → | | |
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🧰 The Toolbox
Tools and products we're excited about today: | | | |
JetBrains Central
A new open platform from JetBrains that provides governance, execution infrastructure, and shared semantic context for AI coding agents across IDEs, CLIs, and pipelines. Supports agents from JetBrains (Junie), Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Early access Q2 2026. Learn more → | |
MolmoWeb
Open-source visual web agent (4B and 8B parameter models) from Ai2 that navigates browsers by interpreting screenshots rather than HTML. Ships with 30,000 human task trajectories and outperforms GPT-4o on key web navigation benchmarks despite its compact size. Learn more → | |
Oxfmt
A Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript code formatter from VoidZero (Evan You’s company) that is 30x faster than Prettier with 100% JS/TS conformance. Now formats 20+ file types including Vue, CSS, SCSS, Markdown, and GraphQL, with built-in Tailwind class sorting. Learn more → | |
Goose by Block
Free, open-source, model-agnostic AI coding agent from Block (Square/Cash App) with 26,000+ GitHub stars. Can scaffold projects, edit files, run tests, and debug. Works with any LLM provider or runs fully locally via Ollama. Learn more → |
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Four pillars that allow teams to move faster while staying secure AI is transforming how software is built & delivered, but speed without strong platform controls can increase risk. This AWS-sponsored Harvard Business Review Analytic Services whitepaper outlines four critical pillars for using AI safely to accelerate delivery.
Learn how leading engineering teams reduce time-to-market, lower defect escape, & contain supply-chain risk. Explore practical adoption strategies & real-world results from organizations that have successfully implemented AI at scale.
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