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Published on 16.02.2026
TLDR: Simon Willison and the Oxide and Friends podcast crew coined a term for the psychological dread software developers feel as AI encroaches on their craft. They call it "Deep Blue," a nod to the chess computer that defeated Kasparov in 1997, and the feeling is more widespread than many want to admit.
Link: Deep Blue
TLDR: Matteo Collina pushes back on the "coding is dead" narrative, arguing that AI shifts the bottleneck from writing code to evaluating it, and that evaluation requires deep hands-on coding experience you cannot skip.
Link: Yes, Learning to Code Is Still Valuable
TLDR: A philosophical exploration of whether passion-driven developers produce fundamentally better work than those motivated purely by money, touching on AI-generated code as a third category in the conversation.
Link: Can You Buy the Soul of a Developer?
TLDR: ServerCN proposes a component-based model for building Node.js and TypeScript backends, offering reusable, copy-pasteable backend components that developers own and compose, rather than importing opaque framework abstractions.
Link: ServerCN, Backend Component Registry
TLDR: Sileo is a zero-dependency React toast notification library that uses gooey SVG morphing and spring physics to create fluid, Dynamic Island-inspired notification animations with a minimal API surface.