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01GENERAL

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GOODBYE LOW TEST COVERAGE AND SLOW QA CYCLES

Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. However, getting that kind of coverage (and staying there) is hard and pricey for any team.

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

TIKTOK QUIETLY LAUNCHES A MICRODRAMA APP CALLED ‘PINEDRAMA'

TikTok's new app, PineDrama, offers access to microdramas, bite-sized TV shows that can be watched in a series of one-minute episodes. It features a variety of genres, including thriller, romance, and family. The microdrama industry is projected to bring in $26 billion in annual revenue by 2030. PineDrama will compete with existing microdrama platforms like ReelShort and DramaBox.

techcrunch.com2 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

THE FASTEST HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT MISSION IN HISTORY CRAWLS CLOSER TO LIFTOFF

NASA rolled out the Artemis II rocket to its launch pad over the weekend. The Artemis II mission will set several notable spaceflight records. The astronauts will travel further from the Earth than any human in history, flying to the far side of the Moon and back. The mission is on track for liftoff as soon as next month.

arstechnica.com9 min read

A MATIC HOME STORY

Matic's robots have cleaned over 50 million square feet across real homes since launch. The company was designed from the ground up to iterate quickly. It shipped early, observed behavior, learned from real homes, and refined constantly. This article tells the story of Matic's founders and how they built the company.

arenamag.com16 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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WANT TO SHIP AI AGENTS WITH BUILT-IN AUTH AND SECURITY?

Connect your AI agents to apps and data more securely, give users control over the actions AI agents can perform and the data they can access, and enable human confirmation for critical agent actions.

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LLMS AND YOUR CAREER

Interesting software development jobs aren't likely to disappear. The jobs that are dependent on the fundamentals of software aren't going to stop being dependent on the fundamentals of software. More LLM usage will mean more stress on the tools and applications that rely on the fundamentals of software. The most conservative way to build a career as a software developer is to be practical and effective at problem-solving and to better understand over time how the tools you use work so that you can make better decisions.

notes.eatonphil.com3 min read

I WAS A TOP 0.01% CURSOR USER. HERE'S WHY I SWITCHED TO CLAUDE CODE 2.0

Claude Code 2.0 has a flexible and robust harness with an evolved UX and fewer bugs. The RLHF Anthropic did on Opus 4.5 completely changed the equation. Users no longer need to review code or instruct the model at the level of files or functions: they can just test behaviors instead. Claude Code can be used by developers who never plan on learning how to code and just care about outputs.

blog.silennai.com32 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

NYSE BUILDS VENUE FOR 24/7 TRADING OF TOKENIZED STOCKS, ETFS

The New York Stock Exchange is building a new digital trading platform using blockchain technology to allow for around-the-clock trading of tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds. The platform will launch later this year, pending regulatory approval. It will allow for new types of investor accessibility and create new opportunities for retail to participate in stablecoin-funded markets. The digital infrastructure will allow trades to be funded and settled in real-time without the current one-day delay.

links.tldrnewsletter.com5 min read