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🗣Ratcheting to zero: How incremental constraints eliminate technical debty
How we made working with legacy code enjoyable: measure what you want to improve → automate it → make a change. Repeat.
Frustration around legacy code isn't from lack of understanding; your team knows technical debt matters. The real challenge is having systematic approaches you can actually deploy when leadership asks for specifics.
Many teams get stuck choosing between massive rewrites (unrealistic) or relying on good intentions (unsustainable). But there's a better way. This screencast explores a ratcheting approach with concrete answers for leadership while making the work genuinely satisfying.
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🤖 OpenAI unveils ChatGPT agent
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- OpenAI introduced ChatGPT agent, which autonomously browses the web and uses a virtual computer to conduct research, download information, and generate completely new files.
- The tool can link with your personal Gmail and GitHub to pull useful data, and it interacts with websites by securely logging in to handle forms.
- This system combines previous Operator and Deep Research features, using a visual browser or terminal to produce finished outputs like editable presentations and spreadsheets.
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🚗 Uber will deploy 20,000 autonomous taxis
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- Uber plans to add 20,000 autonomous taxis to its network by partnering with automaker Lucid to build the vehicles and Nuro for the software.
- The fleet will use modified Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with the Nuro Driver module, a system targeting Level 4 autonomy with an Nvidia DRIVE Thor chip.
- Production starts in late 2026 for a launch in a single US city, with the full rollout planned over the subsequent six years.
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🍿 Netflix starts using GenAI in its shows and films
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- The company confirmed its first GenAI final footage appeared in the Argentine show “El Atonata,” where AI tools were used to create a building collapsing scene.
- Executives claim the visual effect was completed 10 times faster and at a lower cost compared to production using traditional visual effect tools.
- Netflix also plans to use AI for other creator tools, including pre-visualization, shot-planning, and making complex visual effects like de-aging available for smaller projects.
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💥 Apple sues Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks
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- Apple is suing Jon Prosser for misappropriation of trade secrets, alleging a "coordinated scheme" to steal information by breaking into an employee's "development" iPhone.
- The lawsuit claims Prosser's associate used location tracking and a passcode to access the device, then showed Prosser the unreleased iOS 26 over a video call.
- Prosser denies plotting to access the phone and claims he was unaware of how his associate obtained the leaked information about the new mobile operating system.
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⚖️ Meta execs settle $8 billion privacy lawsuit
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- Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta executives settled a lawsuit from shareholders seeking $8 billion to cover fines and costs from repeated user privacy violations.
- The last-minute agreement means Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Marc Andreessen will not have to testify under oath about their oversight of user data.
- This was the first time that difficult-to-prove 'Caremark claims' went to trial, which accuse a company’s board of completely failing in its oversight duties.
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🏛️ US passes first major national crypto legislation
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- The US has passed its first major national crypto legislation, called the Genius Act, which President Trump is now expected to sign into law.
- This new bill establishes a regulatory regime for stablecoins, requiring them to be backed one-for-one with the dollar or other similar low-risk assets.
- Critics argue the measure introduces new risks by legitimizing these coins without enough consumer protections, leaving customers vulnerable if a stablecoin firm should fail.
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