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Cursor, the AI coding tool, is making its biggest push yet into India, announcing the country is now its third-largest market globally. The company is rolling out localized pricing and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales, signaling that the next wave of AI developer adoption may well be centered in South Asia.
Shifting to infrastructure, the Stack Overflow Blog sat down with Komodor's AI engineering group manager to dig into what reliable AI context actually looks like in site reliability work. The conversation gets at something real — modern systems span so many services that human SREs simply cannot hold all the relevant context at once, which is pushing the role toward strategy and agent oversight rather than direct incident response.
And on a lighter note, a developer has posted uncut footage of Half-Life running on a real, original PlayStation One. Not an emulator — actual hardware. The technical feat has caught attention in the Hacker News community, a reminder that engineers sometimes chase a challenge simply because the constraint itself is the point.
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