Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #16
Authors of "polished" PRs no longer necessarily understand their code... maybe code was (at least a part of) the hard part?
Weekly Tech Cocktail
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2026
Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #15
Keep your humanity, stay the part of the loop that understands. 'cause truth is we probably don't need you to do a copy-paste ....
Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #14
Twenty-five companies tell Washington to leave open weights alone, Postgres explained as a city, and the jobs apocalypse that isn't.
Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #13
China's open models on top, mathematicians outcounterexampled, and the $25 exploit worth $500k. And more hot tech in an overheated summer (well, quite cool today).
Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #12
Grok's CLI uploads a whole home directory, Bun leaves Zig as Roc arrives, Torvalds and Godot split on AI code
Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #11
Who is allowed to touch the models, the bill for the hype, and a scroll read after 2,000 years. And much more ...
Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #10
Identity checks on Claude push people to open weights, prompt injection reframed as role confusion, Quake in CSS
Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #9
Washington pulls Fable and Mythos offline, an agent bankrupts its operator scanning DN42, curl pauses bug reports
2025
Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #8
Opus 4.1 and GPT-5 land in the same week, three authors sue over training data, and CSS finally nests selectors
Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #7
AI code generators ship vulnerable software half the time, vibe code is already legacy code, a drawn fish swims