The Daily Index — Friday, February 6, 2026 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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MY AI ADOPTION JOURNEY

Mitchell Hashimoto, a developer who co-founded HashiCorp, has reached a point where he is having success with modern AI tooling. His approach uses a proper, measured view grounded in reality. This post shares Hashimoto's approach to navigating these new tools and gives a glimpse into how he approaches new tools in general, regardless of AI. Hashimoto is a software craftsman who just wants to build stuff for the love of the game, so it doesn't matter to him whether AI is here to stay.

mitchellh.com · 14 min

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GOOGLE HINTS AT BIG AIRDROP EXPANSION FOR ANDROID “VERY SOON”

Google is expanding AirDrop support to the rest of the Android ecosystem this year. Currently, only Google Pixel 10 devices can initiate an AirDrop session with Apple devices. AirDrop support allows Android devices to send files to Apple devices without downloading third-party apps. Google tends to time its Android ecosystem updates with Pixel Drops, and the next one of those is expected in March.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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DEATH OF SOFTWARE. NAH

Wall Street tends to run in herds, and the past couple of weeks have seen the herd collectively conclude that software is somehow dead. This is nonsense. There will be more software than ever before. AI-enabled or AI-centric software is simply moving up the stack of what a product is. Domain experience will become more important than it is today because every domain will become vastly more sophisticated than it is now.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 13 min

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TIM COOK TEASES NEW PRODUCT CATEGORIES AND SERVICES ENABLED BY AI

Apple glasses are rumored to be unveiled this year, and the new Apple Health+ service is expected to arrive in iOS 27 with AI at the center.

9to5mac.com · 2 min

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TELEPORTING INTO THE FUTURE AND ROBBING YOURSELF OF RETIREMENT PROJECTS

AI enables developers to start doing the projects they've been putting off for the future.

ghuntley.com · 5 min

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NASA CHANGES ITS MIND, WILL ALLOW ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS TO TAKE IPHONES TO THE MOON

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has told his team to challenge NASA's bloated requirements to ensure they are still needed today.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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AMAZON'S $200 BILLION SPENDING PLAN RAISES STAKES IN AI RACE

Investors are worried that the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on AI data centers will take years to pay off.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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SPACEX SEEKS EARLY INDEX ENTRY AS IT PREPARES MASSIVE IPO

SpaceX advisers have reached out to major index providers to discuss whether SpaceX could join key indexes sooner than normal.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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ELON MUSK - "IN 36 MONTHS, THE CHEAPEST PLACE TO PUT AI WILL BE SPACE”

Elon Musk plans to leverage xAI's ability to create and scale hardware to enable space-based data centers that will run on basically unlimited power from solar energy.

dwarkesh.com · 134 min