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How To Test This?

How To Test With Augmented Coding Ben Fellows

28 May 2026

The text discusses the evolving QA role in software development, emphasizing trust-building through rigorous testing, challenges like QA bottlenecks and bug-induced trust erosion, the strategic use of AI tools to augment rather than replace testers, the need for QA professionals to develop technical and strategic skills, critiques of over-reliance on automation, and future trends like hybrid engineer roles and AI-driven skill acceleration.

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Software Engineering Radio

Dwayne McDaniel on the Engineering Challenges of Secrets Management

27 May 2026

Managing secrets like credentials and API keys in software development risks leaks causing supply chain attacks (e.g., PyPy, Clot, Cisco) due to secrets sprawl, plaintext storage, and misuse, prompting solutions like time-bound credentials, decentralized systems, vault tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault), and strategies such as credential rotation and encrypted storage amid over 28.65 million hard-coded secrets in GitHub in 2025.

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Startup Stories

#2306 Is Polsia a $250M Scam? I Asked the Founder to His Face

27 May 2026

Polsio, an AI tool enabling non-technical users to autonomously build companies, grapples with engineering limitations and high initial churn ($10M revenue run rate) while refining retention via pricing, education, and balancing generic AI outputs with personalized templates to democratize entrepreneurship.

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Latent Space

ESMFold2: The Bitter Lesson is Coming for Proteins - Alex Rives, BioHub

27 May 2026

ESMC leverages transformer-based models trained on 6.8 billion protein sequences to predict structures, design functional proteins, and uncover evolutionary patterns through scalable, data-driven approaches, while balancing evolutionary constraints with interpretability and addressing limitations in data diversity and model generalizability.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

27 May 2026

OpenCode's rapid growth to 10 million users highlights challenges like feature overload and AI's limited impact on development speed, while underscoring tensions between innovation, product cohesion, sustainable practices, and the complexities of AI-driven workflows in software engineering.

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Risky Business

Risky Business #839 -- TeamPCP stole GitHub's internal repos

27 May 2026

A GitHub breach by "Team PCP" via a compromised VS Code extension exposed 3,800 internal repositories, underscoring supply chain risks, corporate underreporting, AI-driven threats, outdated dependencies, and systemic gaps in open-source and cybersecurity practices.

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Scaling DevTools

Cloudflare devs @ AI Engineers Europe (Sunil Pai, Matt Carey & Thomas Ankcorn)

27 May 2026

The Air Engineers Europe conference in London showcased collaborative AI and tech innovation, emphasizing high-quality talks, networking with industry leaders, tools like Pi Agent and Cloudflare Workers, community-driven projects, simplicity in design, and a push for unconventional, experimental innovations.

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BeyondQuality

Episode 10: deep dive in AI era testing research

27 May 2026

The text highlights challenges of AI-generated code in QA, including increased testing complexity, uncertainty in code intent, and the need for proactive strategies to balance efficiency with reliability, emphasizing human oversight and tailored solutions to mitigate risks in high-stakes sectors.

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How I AI

The Codex feature that works while you sleep

27 May 2026

Goals in Codex leverages AI to autonomously execute complex tasks through goal-based workflows, emphasizing clarity and validation for improved code quality and efficiency, though it struggles with simple edits and may shift developers toward oversight roles.

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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0

27 May 2026

The text explores the development of code editing tools like diffs and trees for AI-driven code review, challenges with GitHub's performance, introduces scalable solutions like Code Storage, and emphasizes optimizations such as virtualization, GPU acceleration, and AI delegation to handle large-scale code processing efficiently.

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