OpenAI walked back its latest release after users flaggedGPT-5for sounding flat, hallucinating more, and losing creative spark. The fix? Rolling back to the friendlierGPT-4o. Head-to-head tests told a nuanced story:GPT-5nailed accuracy and structure across most prompts. But when the task called for.. read more  

Modern AI broke the rulebook. By spitting outstochastic outputs from unbounded inputs, it flipped software dev from a game of precision to one of probability. Old tools—funnels, SLO dashboards, crisp A/B tests—don’t quite fit anymore. They were built for systems that behaved. Today’s AI stacks mov.. read more  

freeCodeCamp dropped a new course that walks devs through building an AI-powered shopping agent from scratch. It ties togetherLangGraphfor orchestration,Geminifor reasoning, andMongoDB Atlasas the vector memory layer. The build covers aNode.js backend, aReact frontend, and wires inmulti-step agent .. read more  

Generative AI tools likeGPT-4oandClaude Sonnetnow handle the grunt work—fixing bugs, cranking out code, writing docs—with scary accuracy. Amazon and Anthropic are already hinting at hiring fewer engineers. But the jobs aren’t vanishing; they’re mutating... read more  

Datadog just dropped its 6th-gen real-time timeseries engine:RTDB. It's built inRust, sharded per core, and backed by LSM trees that don’t blink under pressure. The secret sauce? A custom storage engine calledMonocle—optimized for high-cardinality chaos and bursty workloads. It’s pulling60x faster .. read more  

ClickHouse ran five LLMs through an autonomous root cause gauntlet using OpenTelemetry data. None nailed it solo. OpenAI’s o3 and Claude Sonnet 4 came closest. GPT-4.1 was the cheapest brain on the block. Things got weird under the hood. Token usage spiked unpredictably. Queries slammed observabili.. read more  

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps just got sharper: it now checks if leaked secrets are actuallyvalid. Secrets are flagged asActiveorUnknownby pinging providers in real time. No setup needed. It auto-kicks in for supported secret types. Why care?Because not every secret leak is an emergenc.. read more  

Airbnb yanked tens of millions of lines of Java, Kotlin, and Scala out of Gradle and dropped them intoBazel. Why? Faster builds, reproducible results, and smoother dev workflows. They didn’t just swap tools—they rewired the whole thing. A customautomated build file generatornow slices up targets fi.. read more  

TechRadar rounds up the best Linux distros for devs.Manjarodelivers Arch power without the pain.DebianandUbuntu LTShold steady for those who put uptime over edge.Fedorakeeps the new stuff flowing. Solusrolls with a tight curation hand—smooth updates, no chaos.Mocaccinoaims at Gentoo lovers who want.. read more  

Marc Brooker breaks down the jump fromAmazon DynamotoDynamoDBandAurora DSQL, tracing how the guts of cloud databases have changed. It’s a story about dropping old trade-offs and picking up stronger guarantees. DynamoDB ditches the old hash-ring replication for multi-AZ replica sets backed by Paxos... read more