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There is nothing profound in this article. This is not the first announcement by a company offering humanoid robots. And that is the issue I want to discuss today.

The fact that these types of announcements are becoming commonplace means we are getting much closer to the next mass wave of job losses. But unlike Britains northern coal mines, Canada's cod fisheries and their tar sands oil workers this will affect people across hundreds of industries globally and at the same time. The miners, fishers and oil workers job losses were each separated by decades and only affected a subset of the population, albeit while devastating local economies.

We know this next wave is coming and it will be fueled by companies needs(desires) to reduce costs and improve efficiency as well as robotics and related companies with deep investor pockets seeing huge profits.

But with so many workers who will be left without a job anywhere in their industry we will face a global economic and social downturn. Modern countries who look after their people will find their social programs taxed to the limit while more backward countries will see huge increases in homelessness and the crimes of survival that come with it.

This can be avoided.

Smart governments need to start investing in retraining programs, entrepreneuship courses and very strong marketing campaigns.

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Instead of AI replacing developers, this author suggests AI can replace the mundane in the agile development process, thus freeing up human time for more creative endeavours. I agree in principle but it would have been nice if the author included links to corresponding tools.

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I doubt this is earth shattering news to any seasoned developer but it is nice to see it in stated in writing.

AI can and does help with coding, but coding is not the bottleneck in the end-to-end process that also includes code reviews, knowledge sharing, documentation, testing, debugging, coordination and communication.

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(via Preparing for Google Zero - by CJ Gustafson)

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Kinde is morphing into a full platform with their newly announced billing feature.

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If you run a hybrid environment with AWS you can now export public certs from ACM.

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If you are an AWS shop this might interest you.

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(via Intent-to-infrastructure: Platform engineers break bottlenecks with AI)

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(via An engineer's guide to vibe design (with prompts))

I highly recommend Posthog's blog. They are a very transparent organisation and there is so much to learn from them.

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(via https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bca8fe62-8673-4ef9-a0e7-0489f56de848_1280x1546.jpeg (1280×1546))

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(via Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In fact, we insist - Canva Engineering Blog)

Aka "I for one, welcome our AI overlords"

Canva has a great approach to using AI in development.

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(via Vibe Coding: Fad, Future or Folly?  - The New Stack)

IMHO:

As of June 2025 the state of AI is not sufficient to vibe code production ready apps.

However, vibe-like coding along with some discipline and a clear requirements doc is a great way to develop quick proof-of-concepts (POCs).

Just be cautious since it is not uncommon for so called POCs to make their way to production.

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(via "AI will replace all the jobs!" Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing - SparkToro)