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Happy Friday🥳!

Before you wrap the week, here’s a quick drop of things worth checking out.

AI Coding Tools May Slow Junior Developer Learning
A new Anthropic-backed study suggests AI assistance doesn’t boost productivity and may hinder skill growth. The findings raise tough questions about how developers learn, debug, and supervise AI-written code. Read more.

Enterprises Aren’t Ready for the Rise of the Developer
AI-assisted coding is pushing developers into full ownership of the delivery lifecycle, while expanding who can be a developer at all. Read more.

Anthropic debuts Opus 4.6
Anthropic’s latest flagship model brings bigger context windows, parallel agent teams, and stronger reasoning. Benchmarks and early results suggest faster, more production-ready outputs for complex developer workflows. Read more.

Where on Earth is vibe coding taking off the most?
New search data shows growing global curiosity around vibe coding. The analysis reveals where interest is strongest, what people are searching for, and what it suggests about evolving developer workflows. Read more.

OpenCode Takes On Claude Code and Copilot
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding tool, supports 75+ models with a terminal-first workflow. It targets power users who want privacy, control, and flexibility across editors and models. Read more.

Malicious NGINX Configs Power Large-Scale Traffic Hijacking
Researchers uncover an active campaign injecting malicious NGINX configurations to silently reroute web traffic through attacker-controlled servers. Read more.

Claude Opus 4.6 Finds Hundreds of Hidden Vulnerabilities
Anthropic says its newest model uncovered 500+ previously unknown high-severity flaws in open-source libraries. Read more.

Introducing Node Readiness Controller
A new controller adds declarative, custom readiness gates so nodes meet infrastructure requirements before scheduling. Read more.

A Glossary for Incident Response, On-Call, and Reliability
An open-source, searchable glossary with 500+ incident response terms explained in plain English. Built to reduce confusion, standardize language, and make writing and learning about incidents easier. Explore here.

I Miss Thinking hard
If AI makes building effortless, where does deep thinking go? A quiet, honest reflection on losing the slow, difficult thinking that once defined engineering growth, and one many developers may recognize in themselves. Read more.

My AI Adoption Journey
One developer’s path from skepticism to a steady, productive agent workflow. A grounded look at what actually works, what doesn’t, and why nuance beats hype. Read more.

Mark your calendars!