GitHub Copilot Chat just jot better in **VS Code 1.101** with **Custom Chat Modes**. Devs can now drop Markdown files into their workspace to shape Copilot’s persona—tone, tools, constraints, the works. Want an AI buddy for security audits? Or a test-writing machine with zero patience for flaky cod.. read more  

Redis isn’t just a cache anymore. Sure, it still owns the in-memory speed game—with **key expiration**, **data persistence**, and **horizontal scaling** via **replication** and **clustering**. But if you're only using it to stash a few keys, you're missing the point. This thing handles **streams**,.. read more  

Vibe Coding lets developers create software by chatting with AI, skipping traditional coding. But the non-determinism of AI prompts poses significant risks for reliability and maintainability, potentially leading to addiction-like dependence on this new tool. Think twice before fully embracing this .. read more  

Perl 5 has risen to **10th place in the TIOBE Index**, increasing in popularity even though the exact reason is unknown. Perl 6, or Raku, lags behind Perl 5 in rankings and has not seen the same rise in attention. Other top languages like C and Java have experienced slight falls in rankings... read more  

A long-dead Linux kernel driver for QIC-80 tape drives just got dragged into the present—with help from **Claude Code** and a lot of tinkering. It now builds cleanly and runs as a **standalone module** on **Linux 6.8**, playing nice with modern setups like **Xubuntu 24.04**. **The bigger picture:**.. read more  

A developer rolled their own AI server for $1.3K—Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, an Nvidia RTX GPU, and a sharp eye on Tensor cores, VRAM, and resale value. The rig handles small models locally and punts big jobs to the cloud when needed. Local-first, cloud-when-it-counts... read more  

Booking.com built Judge-LLM, a framework where strong LLMs evaluate other models against a carefully curated golden dataset. Clear metric definitions, rigorous annotation, and iterative prompt engineering make evaluations more scalable and consistent than relying solely on humans. **The takeaway**:.. read more  

GitHub's biggest debates right now? Whether to shut down AI-generated "noise" fromCopilot—stuff like auto-written issues and code reviews. No clear answers from GitHub yet. Frustration is piling up. Some devs are ditching the platform altogether, shifting their projects toCodebergor spinning upself-.. read more  

LLMs generate text by predicting the next word using attention to capture context and MLP layers to store learned patterns. Mechanistic interpretability shows these models build circuits of attention and features, and tools like sparse autoencoders and attribution graphs help unpack superposition, r.. read more  

Fastly says95% of developersspend extra time fixing AI-written code. Senior engineers take the brunt. That overhead has even spawned a new gig: “vibe code cleanup specialist.” (Yes, seriously.) As teams lean harder on AI tools, reliability and security start to slide—unless someone steps in. The re.. read more