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  • Can't AI Test It?

    Tom Batey of WebDepend argues that AI can run checks but cannot judge whether software satisfies expectations—so businesses still need human testers who own responsibility when AI writes and verifies code.

    Opinion · AI · Software Engineering · Engineering · Opinion

    6 min · 1,412 words

  • Firmware freedom

    PlayTaurus argues guitarists should buy hardware for what it is and run community firmware on it—ESP32-class chips are cheap enough, NAM models are open, and closed pedal firmware is the last proprietary lock.

    Opinion · Open Source · Hardware · Engineering · Opinion

    2 min · 477 words

  • No more issues

    # No more issues Written on 2026-09-04 An interesting change at Laravel yesterday: they disabled the ability to create issues on a number of repositories and instead encourage people to create pull-requests instead: To be clear: this is only the case for Laravel packages like Soc

    Opinion · Open Source · Programming · Engineering

    4 min · 919 words