Discord is rebuilding its desktop app in Rust to fix its memory problem
A screenshot of an early build shows the new client using about 290MB of RAM, versus gigabytes for the current Electron app
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Anthropic manager stops coding interviews because Claude beats most candidates
Watching candidates solve a problem once predicted how they'd do on job, but AI has made the exercise nearly meaningless
Amazon tells engineers to stop tokenmaxxing and judge AI tools by what they ship
Employees were using agents to inflate token counts and game an internal AI leaderboard which was later shut down
Super Smash Bros. creator thinks AI will make a lot of games, most won't make money
Masahiro Sakurai argues AI can produce endless copycats, but not a single original idea
Two web emergencies in one week: guessable certificate keys and critical PHP bugs that leaked before patches
Browsers patched one problem remotely. Servers will need to be fixed by hand.
A hot potato: Security teams are dealing with two separate emergencies this week, and both go straight to the foundations of the web. The first is a certificate authority that shipped private keys anyone could guess. The second is a pair of critical PHP flaws that leaked before patches existed. Browsers fixed the certificate problem within hours. Everything else, from Linux servers to Docker images and IoT gear, needs someone to log in and patch.
The developer who cloned Photoshop using AI has now created Word, Excel, and PowerPoint replicas with Claude
WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft are free, open-source Rust apps, but still early in development
First look: Though vibe-coded apps are often slammed as "AI slop" by users and developers alike, generative AI can now produce complex productivity apps that rival market leaders. After building free, open-source alternatives to Adobe's Creative Cloud apps using Claude AI, developer Brandon Thomas is now turning to replicas of Microsoft Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
A developer got Googlebook OS running on Apple Silicon, but it's far from ready for daily use
GPU acceleration and Chrome work, but Bluetooth crashes
Decompilation on Steroids: Why AI Is Suddenly Cracking Open Old Software
Everything is being decompiled. GoldenEye, Halo, Photoshop, even bank mainframes: AI is prying open old code at record speed. The secret isn't just AI, it's an answer key to check its work.
Sublime Text stays fast and focused with Python 3.14 upgrade
Sublime Text has upgraded its plugin environment, while adding file icon themes and improving performance when saving many files and checking Git status. While other code editors embrace AI, Sublime Text sticks to what it does best: being a fast, lightweight code editor.
Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter
"Nobody is thinking anymore"
This one-command trick can put your localhost on the internet, no port forwarding required
A free Cloudflare tool that's been around since 2021 just went viral like it's brand new
Meet Jev: A New Kind of AI Model From One of ChatGPT's Co-Creators
Jev doesn't chat, write code, or explain itself. It just makes decisions, fast and cheap. Here's why a ChatGPT co-inventor thinks that's the next big step for AI.
Almost 86% of Japanese game developers are using AI in their workflows, up from 51% in 2025
Benefits include improved efficiency, shorter development cycles, and reduced costs, according to survey
Roblox's top creators are making $65 million a year, while most took home about $1,500
Roblox will soon let creators turn their titles into standalone games for PC, consoles, and mobile, and even join games via Chrome links
A Microsoft engineer says "typing code is absolutely over," here's what he means
GitHub Copilot's coding agent can now set up environments, run tests, and open pull requests
Microsoft unveils distraction-free Windows for developers, but anyone can replicate it
Project Zenith preloads coding tools on 64GB developer PCs, but Windows Developer Config brings the same setup to any machine
Zed is a fast, lightweight alternative to VS Code and Cursor
Built in Rust, Zed is a modern code editor focused on speed and collaboration. It supports Git, debugging, remote development, AI agents, and extensions, with native versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Zed is also part of our Essential Apps for Windows and Mac.
I Vibecoded Morrowind, Duke Nukem, and Serious Sam Onto an iPhone
I can't code, but with AI agents I built native iPhone ports of Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, and Morrowind, learning where vibecoding works, where it fails, and why human direction still matters.
Zuckerberg's bold plan to replace Meta employees with AI has imploded
Meta explored 60% team cuts in two waves before staff revolt forced a retreat
A hot potato: Meta set out to reorganize much of its workforce around AI at the beginning of this year, betting that agents could help the company move faster while reducing the need for larger teams. The company went ahead with 10% workforce cuts in May but ultimately dropped plans for a broader round of layoffs after its AI workplace "overhaul" ran into employee resistance and technical problems.
GitHub is down again, and this time it's hitting almost everything
The outage follows a lengthy Actions disruption last week that GitHub called "unacceptable"
Visual Studio Code adds on-device AI dictation and sidebar chats
Visual Studio Code 1.132 introduces multilingual on-device AI dictation powered by Nemotron 3.5, alongside new sidebar chats that let developers interact with Copilot without interrupting their workflow. VS Code is one of our Essential Apps for both Windows and macOS.
A tiny London startup built a CUDA compiler that reportedly beats AMD's own tools on AMD hardware
The bet is that CUDA, not Nvidia's hardware, is the real key to AI computing dominance
Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features
TinyRetroPad is a super-lean version of Notepad
Meta has been secretly relying on Google's AI for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation – then got cut off
Google had to cut Meta off from Gemini because Meta was using too much of it
Meet "loop engineering": The next evolution in AI coding isn't a better prompt, it's a system that prompts itself
"I don't write the prompt anymore – Claude writes the prompt," says Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code