"If you time-traveled to 1979 and found yourself sitting across from me in my office at Bell Labs—just as I was drafting the initial designs for what would become 'C with Classes'—what would you tell me?": A homework by Bjarne Stroustrup.
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ty, a fast Python type checker by the uv devs, is now in beta
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ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers
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AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can’t Replace Junior Devs
AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back on AI replacing junior developers and explains how AI should be used in the workplace.
MI6 (British Intelligence equivalent to the CIA) will be requiring new agents to learn how to code in Python. Not only that, but they're widely publicizing it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/mi6_chief_well_be_as/
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MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian
: New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'
Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0ae02ba831da2b707905f4e602e43f8507b8cc
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From the programming community on Reddit: Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code.
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AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs
https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report
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AI vs human code gen report: AI code creates 1.7x more issues
We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/github_charge_dev_own_hardware/?td=rt-3a
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GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
updated: Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.