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At Microsoft Build this week, GitHub's Cassidy Williams sat down to talk about what agentic coding is actually doing to developer work. The short answer is it's pushing engineers toward higher-level decisions, but that shift comes with real costs, including decision fatigue and a growing need for human judgment, taste, and mentorship that no model can replace.
Staying in the developer world, a lively debate is playing out inside the Bitcoin community over how to handle data spam on the network. One proposal, BIP one ten, wants a consensus-based restriction with almost no miner backing. A rival approach called DOG Mode takes the opposite view entirely, offering a client-side fix that requires no vote from anyone. Two philosophies, one problem, no agreement yet.
And for those who remember strapping a Pebble smartwatch to their wrist back in the day, there is genuinely interesting news. The rePebble project has dropped what it calls a mega update for July two thousand twenty six, signaling that the community-led revival of that beloved platform is still very much alive and moving forward.
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