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First up, the AI workforce conversation is getting harder to ignore. Box founder Aaron Levie has a name for what's happening inside some companies right now — he calls it AI psychosis. The concern is pointed: the executives deciding AI can replace your job are often the ones who least understand what that job actually involves. ClickUp recently cut twenty-two percent of its workforce in favor of AI agents, and tech layoffs in two thousand twenty-six are already tracking close to all of last year's numbers. The human cost of that optimism is very real.
On the infrastructure side, a project called Thunderbolt-Ibverbs is asking a provocative question — what if the ultra-fast networking technology that powers supercomputers and AI clusters could run over the Thunderbolt port sitting on your laptop? InfiniBand has long been the domain of specialized hardware and serious money, so bringing that capability to commodity connections would meaningfully shift who gets access to high-performance computing.
And rounding out today's show, SQLite is having a moment. A widely discussed post argues the humble embedded database is genuinely all you need for building durable, reliable workflows — no distributed systems complexity required. With two hundred sixty-one points and a lively comment thread, the developer community clearly has feelings about that claim.
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