Han Lee delivers a deep dive into Claude Agent Skills—progressive disclosure architecture that transforms LLMs into domain-specialized agents! Meanwhile, Karthik Tadepalli flips the innovation narrative: ideas aren't scarce, commercialization is broken. John James calls it: the GraphQL enterprise honeymoon is over (operational complexity wins every time), and Kent Beck drops truth bombs about AI changing the economics of hiring juniors—the bet just got better!
OpenAI's GPT-5.2-Codex hits 56.4% on SWE-bench Pro (the autonomous engineer has officially arrived), StackOverflow's 2025 Developer Survey gives us the annual pulse check on developers, and Kate Holterhoff covers the JavaScript bundler Grand Prix where true winners optimize for users, not just milliseconds. Martin Alderson nails the big shift: AI agents are eating SaaS, and the build-vs-buy calculus is fundamentally dead.
On the tools front: check-if-email-exists brings Rust-powered email verification without actually sending emails (production-ready!), claude-mem auto-captures your Claude sessions and injects relevant context back into future work (meta tooling for AI development!), and sonda finally delivers the universal bundle analyzer for ALL modern bundlers we've been waiting for.
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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
by Martin Alderson
We spent fifteen years watching software eat the world.
🚀 Read it!, ai, saas
by Han Lee
A First Principles Deep Dive
📰 Good to know, ai, claude
Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find
by Karthik Tadepalli
For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell.
📰 Good to know, ideas
by John James
the enterprise honeymoon is over
📰 Good to know, graphql, engineering
The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better
by Kent Beck
Why genies can make hiring juniors more profitable, & what you need to change to get there
📰 Good to know, ai, engineering
by openai.com
The most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity.
📰 Good to know, ai, openai
by stackoverflow.co
The 2025 Developer Survey is the definitive report on the state of software development.
📰 Good to know, survey, engineering
The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix
by Kate Holterhoff
The desire to shave milliseconds off JavaScript build times has been relentless, but progress has been slow.
📰 Good to know, bundlers, tools
by reacher.email
Check if an email address exists without sending any email, written in Rust.
🧰 Tools, tools, emails
by claude-mem.ai
A Claude Code plugin that automatically captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it with AI (using Claude's agent-sdk), and injects relevant context back into future sessions.
🧰 Tools, ai, claude
by Filip Sobol
Universal visualizer and analyzer for JavaScript and CSS. Compatible with most bundlers and frameworks
🧰 Tools, tools, visualizer
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