Anthropic Internal Study Shows AI Is Taking Over Boring Code. But Is Software Engineering Losing Its Soul?
https://www.interviewquery.com/p/anthropic-ai-skill-erosion-report
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Interview Query
Inside Anthropic: 27% of Work Now Done by AI — But Engineers Warn of Growing Skill Erosion
Anthropic’s internal 2025 study reveals that 27% of work is now completed by AI tools like Claude, boosting productivity but raising concerns among engineers about skill atrophy, changing workflows, and the future of software development.
Distributed Lock Failure: How Long GC Pauses Break Concurrency
https://systemdr.substack.com/p/distributed-lock-failure-how-long
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Distributed Lock Failure: How Long GC Pauses Break Concurrency
When Your Distributed Lock Lies to You
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
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Lalit Maganti
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
An alternate path for Staff+ engineers that optimizes for systems over spotlights and stewardship over fungibility.
Why ID Format Matters More Than ID Generation (Lessons from Production)
https://piljoong.dev/posts/distributed-id-generation-complicated/
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Distributed ID Formats Are Architectural Commitments, Not Just Data Types
Why ID formats become long-term architectural commitments, and how UUID, ULID, Snowflake, and custom schemes compare.
React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182): The Log4Shell moment for the frontend ecosystem, and nobody is ready
https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/cve-2025-55182-react2shell-remote-code-execution-react-server-components/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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Datadoghq
CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell): Remote code execution in React Server Components and Next.js
Learn more about the CVE-2025-55182 vulnerability affecting React Server Components and affecting Next.js.
Authentication Explained: When to Use Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, JWT & SSO
https://javarevisited.substack.com/p/system-design-basics-authentication
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Authentication Explained: When to Use Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, JWT & SSO
Authentication Explained: When to Use Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, JWT & SSO
F-35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards
https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
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Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep
https://howtech.substack.com/p/spinlocks-vs-mutexes-when-to-spin
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Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep
You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is pegged at 100% doing nothing useful. This is the synchronization primitive trap…
Microservices should form a polytree
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Bytesauna
Microservices should form a polytree | ByteSauna
microservices, microservice architecture, polytree, distributed systems, service dependencies, system design, software architecture, scalability, fault tolerance
Is vibe coding actually insecure? New CMU paper benchmarks vulnerabilities in agent-generated code
http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03262
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arXiv.org
Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated...
Vibe coding is a new programming paradigm in which human engineers instruct large language model (LLM) agents to complete complex coding tasks with little supervision. Although it is increasingly...
When a small open-source tool suddenly blows up, the experience is nothing like people imagine
https://kaic.me/win-post-install/
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kaic.me
Windows Post-Install Script Generator
Automate Windows setup with custom batch scripts. Free browser tool.
How do you modernize a legacy tech stack without a complete rewrite?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/strangler-fig
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Strangler Fig Pattern - Azure Architecture Center
Learn how to incrementally migrate a legacy system by gradually replacing specific pieces of functionality with new applications and services.
Go 1.26 package: runtime/secret -- zeros out registers and memory after running a function run in secret mode
https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
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antonz.org
Go proposal: Secret mode
Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.
Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries
https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecations-via-warnings-dont-work-for-python-libraries
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Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries
Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for
several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and
have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations
were marked in the...
several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and
have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations
were marked in the...