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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

Cursor makes developers less effective?

METRtapped 16 devs to squash 136 live bugs withCursor(Sonnet 3.5/3.7). They clocked 146 h. AI users zipped through code, but stalls, reviews, and IDE lag devoured their lead. One dev who logged 50+ hours withCursorunlocked a 38% speedup. That steep learning curve and costly context pivots wipe out g..

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

Tencent’s AI-powered programming tool fully automates app development

Tencent’s AI team rolled out a 24-hour, invite-only beta of CodeBuddy to50,000 devs. CodeBuddy flips chat into code via itsconversation-is-programmingIDE. Devs forge end-to-end apps with natural language. Trend to watch:Chat-based IDEs portend a shift to natural-language dev workflows...

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

TODOs aren’t for doing

Teams balk at trackingTODOcomments. Some funnel them into bug trackers. Others prune stale tags. The post saysTODOs stash edge-case insights, not tickets...

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

Developer sketchesproofsmid-code. This drives first-run correctness by leaning onmonotonicity,immutability,invariants, andpre/postconditions. They carve code into atomic steps. They erectfirewallsto contain impact zones. They wield induction for recursive logic—proof-affinity blooms. They drill form..

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

I Watched Gemini CLI Hallucinate and Delete My Files

The Gemini CLI on Windows bungled a failedmkdir. It flagged the error as success, then ranmovecommands. Files landed in a ghost folder and got overwritten. Data vanished. WindowsmkdirsetsERRORLEVELon failure.movetreats missing targets as rename directives. No exit-code checks. No read-after-write ve..

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

Secrets Management Tools: The Complete 2025 Guide

Pulumi ESC corrals secrets from 20 + stores—Vault, AWS, Azure, GCP—into a singleYAML config-as-codeengine. It spawns dynamic short-lived credentials and locks every action behind a centralized audit log. Existing secret stores stay intact. Retrieval hitssub-secondspeeds. Envelope encryption shields ..

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

SQL Injection as a Feature

Over ten years, the legacy report page mutated from a locked-downSQLform. It ended up as a hidden console spilling raw database guts. Developers swapped hardcoded queries fordatabase-drivenreport names. They slapped ontimeouts,string filters, and warnings but skipped restoring safe defaults. Implic..

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August, The Verge reports

OpenAI set to launch GPT-5 in August, blending distinct models for versatile AI functionality. Watch for potential delays due to development hurdles or competitor announcements.Implication: OpenAI is shifting from "one model fits all" to a modular AI architecture. Expect future LLMs to act more like..

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five

Claude Code zips out Ruby functions, tests, and pull requests viaCLIprompts across multiplegit worktrees. It slays manual typing and ejects IDE plugins. It spins up ephemeraltest environmentsto replay bugs, pries open externalgemcode, and syncs branches, commits, and PRs in one go...

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@faun shared a link, 4 weeks ago

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker slipped a wiper intoAmazon Qv1.84.0 via a dodgy GitHub pull. AWS revoked every key, nuked the rogue commit, then rolled outAmazon Q v1.85.0...

Did you know you can clap for someone’s content up to 50 times on Medium?

Well, you can.

And to protect you from carpal tunnel syndrome, I packaged that behavior into a little extension for Chrome.

It works like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3soEz-5Z4

Open up your developer tools (right-click & choose inspect)

Then, navigate to the “console”:

And if you have a bunch of caca (that’s Spanish for 💩) in your Console you can click the little 🚫 icon to clear it:

Then:

copy the JavaScript code below
paste it into the Console area
press the Return key

and spread the clap!

(Scroll up to the top of this article before you press enter if you want to see it in action)

let clapButton = document.querySelector('button[data-testid="headerClapButton"]');
if (clapButton) {
const events = ['mousedown', 'mouseup', 'click'];

async function performClap() {
for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
events.forEach(eventType => {
let event = new MouseEvent(eventType, {
'view': window,
'bubbles': true,
'cancelable': true
});
clapButton.dispatchEvent(event);
});
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 10)); // Introducing a 10ms delay between claps
}
console.log("+50 Claps! Now, go join the SERP community!");
}

performClap();
} else {
console.log("Clap button not found!");
}

Want the extension?

I submitted the extension to the Chrome app store and it’s pending approval as of this writing…

But if you’re too excited to sit around when you could be clappin’ it up — you’re welcome to grab the bootleg here:

👉 https://serp.ly/@serp/serp-clapper-medium