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The Trust Collapse: Why 84% of Developers Use AI Coding Tools Daily but Only 29% Trust Them

Adoption is near-universal. Trust is in freefall. Developer favourability toward AI coding tools has dropped from 77% in 2023 to 60% today. Something is breaking down — and it's not the models.

84% of developers use AI coding tools daily. Only 29% trust the output. Favourability has dropped from 77% to 60% in three years. 63% have spent more time debugging AI-generated code than writing it themselves would have taken. The tools are getting better. The trust is getting worse. Here's why.

June 15, 2026·7 min read
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The Website Is Not for Humans Anymore

The next wave of software isn't built for people to click through — it's built for agents to call. Here's what that means if you're deciding what to build next.

For thirty years, building for the web meant making something a human can navigate. That assumption is breaking. The thing doing the navigating is changing — and it has significant implications for what's worth building right now.

June 12, 2026·6 min read
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Anthropic Is Filing for a $965 Billion IPO. It Also Has a Model Too Dangerous to Release. These Two Facts Are Connected.

Anthropic confidentially filed its S-1 on June 1, 2026 — weeks after revealing a model that can autonomously exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in every major OS and browser. The tension between the two stories tells you everything about where the company actually stands.

In the space of two weeks in June 2026, Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO at a $965 billion valuation and released Fable 5 — a public version of Mythos with its most dangerous cybersecurity capabilities stripped out. The full Mythos 5 remains restricted to Project Glasswing partners. The company that was founded on a safety-first mission is now navigating one of the most complex public narratives in tech.

June 7, 2026·8 min read
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Garry Tan Shipped 600,000 Lines of Code in 60 Days While Running YC. Here's What gstack Actually Is.

The YC CEO's open-source Claude Code setup has 89,000+ GitHub stars and a /office-hours skill that simulates a YC partner conversation. Here's what's real, what's hype, and what developers should take from it.

Garry Tan's gstack landed in March 2026 and immediately divided the developer community. 89,000 GitHub stars. 600,000 lines of code shipped in 60 days while running Y Combinator full time. A /office-hours skill that gives you six forcing questions distilled from how YC partners evaluate startups. Here's what it actually is — and what the pattern means for how developers work in 2026.

June 7, 2026·7 min read
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Boil the Ocean: Why Small Ambitions Are the Real AI Risk

A recent essay argues that 'don't boil the ocean' is the wrong advice for the AI era. It's a compelling case — with one important caveat developers shouldn't ignore.

Garry Tan's 'Boil the Ocean' essay makes a bold argument: in the age of AI, playing it safe is the actual risk. Fear of AI is proportional to how small your ambitions are. If your plan is to keep doing exactly what you're doing, a machine that does it faster and cheaper is terrifying. But if your plan is to do something dramatically bigger, it's the best news you've ever gotten.

June 7, 2026·6 min read
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Tech Leaders Are Revising Their AI Jobs Predictions. Here's What the Data Actually Shows.

Sam Altman says he's 'delighted to be wrong.' Dario Amodei has quietly reframed his warnings. But what does the employment data actually tell us — and should developers believe the new narrative?

In May 2026, Sam Altman told an audience in Sydney he was 'pretty wrong' about AI eliminating entry-level jobs. Dario Amodei, who once predicted 50% of white-collar roles would vanish in five years, has shifted to calling AI a 'productivity multiplier.' The Yale Budget Lab, BLS, and Brookings all have data. Here's what it actually says.

June 7, 2026·8 min read
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