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Forty years ago, the BBC attempted something extraordinary — archiving an entire nation onto LaserDiscs the size of dinner plates. The Domesday Project, which predated the web by nearly a decade, recently brought original team members back together at the UK's Centre for Computing History to reflect on what it meant to capture Britain in data before anyone really knew how.
That spirit of ambitious, sometimes overwhelming digital collection feels relevant today, because a New York Times report from two thousand twenty six finds China facing an unexpected consequence of its aggressive push into artificial intelligence — its own citizens are using these tools so heavily that the infrastructure is straining under demand. Building the future, it turns out, comes with its own growing pains.
And on the developer tools front, a team at AWS has open-sourced something called Pizza Bot — a self-hosted platform designed to let AI agents handle background tasks and report back through an inbox-style interface. Think scheduled work, human approval checkpoints, and specialized worker delegation, all without requiring you to babysit the process in real time.
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