The Daily Index — Wednesday, December 10, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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THE RISE OF THE 0.1X ENGINEER

Coding assistants allow anyone to become a 10x engineer. However, it is the 0.1x engineers who will soon be the most valuable. These engineers carefully curate code and set the right patterns rather than prompting to add code. It is really easy to add bloat to a code base, but really hard to differentiate dead code from LLM slop leftovers.

jerpint.io · 1 min

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OPENAI HIRES SLACK CEO DENISE DRESSER TO LEAD GLOBAL REVENUE STRATEGY

OpenAI has hired Slack's CEO, Denise Dresser, as its chief revenue officer. Dresser will oversee OpenAI's global revenue strategy across both customer success and enterprise. She was an executive at Salesforce for more than a decade before being named as Slack's CEO in 2023. OpenAI is on track to reach more than $20 billion in annualized revenue run rate this year. It plans to grow to hundreds of billions in sales by 2030.

cnbc.com · 2 min

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THE BUBBLE IS LABOR

Companies only hire people because they can't do all of the work themselves. If every founder could handle all of the tasks themselves, there wouldn't be anywhere near the number of jobs we have today. The only reason the current labor market exists is because there's a group of founders/owners who need help producing their goods and services. These people aren't required to hire anyone, and the moment they can do the work themselves, they will.

danielmiessler.com · 4 min

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AI COMPANIES ARE HIRING ONE-THIRD FEWER PMS

Model builders and vibe coding platforms have 34% fewer 'product manager' titles as a share of open roles.

risogroup.co · 1 min

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PEBBLE MAKER ANNOUNCES INDEX 01, A SMART-ISH RING FOR UNDER $100

The Index 01 ring can only capture voice notes.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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IMESSAGE'S DELIVERY ARCHITECTURE MAKES IT HARD TO BLOCK WITHOUT BLOCKING ALL IOS PUSH NOTIFICATIONS

iMessage's architecture makes it veto-proof with cellular carriers and hard to block in authoritarian countries.

daringfireball.net · 3 min

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CONFRONTING CAREER INEQUALITIES

It is important to acknowledge the gap in compensation among teams to ensure that work is produced at a net-positive for the organization.

playfulprogramming.com · 4 min

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'SOURCE AVAILABLE' IS NOT OPEN SOURCE (AND THAT'S OKAY)

Open source only works when we agree on what the term means.

dri.es · 4 min

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WHERE ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO GO IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT GROWTH?

The current job market isn't very appealing, not like there are that many jobs available for people not yet established in their field.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min