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[Dev Weekly #117] Open Models Hit Frontier Parity at Half the Cost | AI Agents Go Enterprise | Qualcomm’s $4B AI Bet
HELLO EVERYONE!!! It's July 3rd, 2026, and you are reading the 117th edition of Codeminer42's tech news report. Let's check out what the tech world showed us this week! Qualcomm…
[Dev Weekly #116] GLM-5.2 Dethrones the Giants | Claude’s Becoming Difficult | Rust’s Hidden Memory Trap
HELLO EVERYONE!!! It's June 19th, 2026, and you are reading the 116th edition of Codeminer42's tech news report. Let's check out what the tech world showed us this week! Introducing…
How Far Can AI Self-Validate Rails Code?
A few weeks ago, I wrote Stop Reading AI Code, Start Measuring It: A Rails Playbook. The idea there was that if you stop hand-reviewing every line of AI-generated code,…
What Puma, Falcon, and Pitchfork teach you about Ruby concurrency
I went on a tour of Ruby concurrency while preparing a RubyConf talk on Ractors. Going in, I knew Puma, Falcon, and Unicorn. Coming out, I'd added Pitchfork to that…
My First Two Weeks as an Agentic Engineer
There's a version of this post where I tell you AI made me 10x more productive, everything clicked on the first try, and I'm now shipping software while sipping coffee…