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GitHub’s official engineering blog published From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance, a production writeup about making GitHub Issues feel fast by changing the client/server navigation architecture rather than treating the problem as a narrow backend-latency optimization.

The core idea is that a developer tool’s perceived performance is dominated by the loop between intent and visible feedback. Opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, returning to a list, and scanning the next item are not isolated page loads. They are part of a triage workflow. GitHub therefore measured the work around Highest Priority Content, or HPC, an internal metric aligned with Largest Contentful Paint that tracks when the main issue content, usually the title or body, is rendered. The team bucketed navigations into instant, fast, and slow using HPC thresholds, then optimized the distribution rather than focusing only on the worst tail.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this May 19, 2026 article, and the original post is AI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2.

The productivity story is getting messier

Gergely Orosz’s latest survey analysis is interesting because it treats AI coding tools less like a single productivity lever and more like an organizational stress test. The piece draws on more than 900 responses from The Pragmatic Engineer subscribers and closes a series on how software engineers are actually using AI tools in 2026.

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Tokenmaxxing is a problem and it makes actual legitimate workers look bad. (Blind)

• wDEN53 (Booking.com): more tokens = more hallucinations, just wait for this shit to blow up in a really bad way, then, perhaps, this obsession will settle
• ca\$ (Capital One): I token max by doing my actual job. I don’t have time to waste an AI budget I just have too much work to do. Routinely I run 10 claudes at a time
• gritwest (Careem): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ~ Goodharts Law
• rav444m3 (Microsoft): It’s also an asshole move. There’s a real physical cost to AI and it’s incredibly wasteful with physical infrastructure

Microsoft AI vs. Microsoft CoreAI WLB (Blind)

• gmKY75 (Microsoft): I’d say it’s team dependent but generally coreAI is more relaxed. MAI has at least 4 days RTO, coreAI is 3
• extmem (Meta): MAI is higher pay and CoreAI is just Microsoft pay
• nzwswing79: Layoffs expected, no wonder both are toxic
• HAw!qwtz (Microsoft): Internal transfer from Azure to MAI, any salary increase?

Google L7 or OpenAI L5? (Blind)

• &=(1«31) (OpenAI): OpenAI is an incredible place to work. Far far better than Google.
• ventiventi: OpenAI for sure. You want to join Google in 2005 rather than Google in 2026
• djskdbejeo (Apple): TC for l5 OpenAI should be 1.5M. They cut your rsu in half
• xrhaig8 (Google): Until Altman is gone from OAI I would choose Google, guy is a walking lawsuit.

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (r/technology)

• notanfan: The researcher explained that they “just can’t come up with an explanation beside the fact that this was intentional. Also for whatever reason, only windows 11 (+Server 2022/2025) are affect, windows 10 is not.”
• New-Ranger-8960: There has never been a better time to ditch Microsoft products and services
• asdf_lord: Operating systems are too important to be closed source.
• Mama_Office_141: Snowden leaks told us this in 2013. The whole world should be moving away from American software like France is doing

An AI hate wave is here (r/technology)

• freshairequalsducks: Needs more hate tbh
• Laserdollarz: AI has its uses and place. Stop shoving it into everything and it wouldn’t get a fraction of the hate it currently gets. 
• hypernsansa: Should’ve started earlier, if you ask me
• unwelcome_flesh_sack: Let it build into a hate monsoon which covers the earth. Fuck these billionaire assholes trying to create a cyberpunk dystopia.

LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ (r/technology)

• Sweaty_Rub4322: Is this the only way to even get your application looked at at this point?
• williamgman: LinkedIn = Facebook for work.
• gplusplus314: The actual article is garbage. Anyone find the actual prompt injection example?
• ScheduleNo5736: This is genuinely brilliant AND terrifying at the same time ngl

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Techmeme surfaced this May 18, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original article is Bloomberg’s NextEra-Dominion Deal Signals Era of AI Utility Mega-Mergers. The same cluster pulled in useful supporting reporting from DatacenterDynamics, Axios, and Utility Dive.

Why a Utility Merger Became an AI Story

NextEra’s planned acquisition of Dominion is not a software story, but it is one of the clearer signs that AI is changing the physical shape of the technology industry. The deal would combine Florida Power & Light’s parent company, already the largest US utility by market value and a huge renewables developer, with the dominant utility serving Virginia’s data center corridor. That turns an electricity merger into an AI infrastructure event.

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Uber’s official engineering blog published Beyond Prediction: Solving the Multiple Knapsack Problem at Scale: How Uber Optimizes Incentives, a May 14, 2026 post about Tarot, Uber’s internal targeting platform for allocating incentives under large-scale marketplace, budget, and user-experience constraints.

The post is interesting because it treats incentive targeting as an optimization system rather than a ranking model. A simpler growth stack might ask which offer has the highest predicted effect for each user. Uber’s problem is harder: millions of users, many possible incentives, multiple lines of business, separate quarterly budgets, concurrent campaigns, and a hard limit on how many offers a person should see. At that scale, a locally strong prediction can be globally wrong if it consumes the wrong budget, blocks a better incentive, or improves one marketplace objective while harming another.

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Anthropic hiring is basically closed to the public (Blind)

• texasholde (Apple): Have you tried messaging a recruiter? That got me an interview without a referral.
• purefect (Everpure): Nah, they’re just closed to ex-Amazon workers.
• nzwswing79: I self reject before any anthropic job get posted

Stock up 17%. Cisco still firing people… (Blind)

• fj8ne7hs1 (Transformco): Cisco is not the company it once was a decade ago.
• greatful19 (Apple): I worked hard at Cisco 20+ years back! Glad I kept some of the old espp stocks!
• LegRooom (Google): I don’t know why people still ‘work hard’. Do the bare minimum and enjoy your time with your family.

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support (r/technology)

• number1dipshit: Good! What kinda bullshit is that? You pay for a product and they just make it obsolete unless you break some rules? Fuck amazon
• CondiMesmer: If a company ends support, they should legally be required to open source and let it be flashed.
• killerrin: Just waiting for the EU to crack down on them…any day now.

Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead (r/technology)

• tc100292: Palantir dies when?
• Zeraru: Palantir’s business model is Supervillainy as a Service.
• electrobento: Palantir is an enemy to humanity.

America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why | Fortune (r/technology)

• bigfuzzydog: Someone tell that to my CEO who just this year brought us back to the office full time
• Toby-Finkelstein: Seems like a complete market failure because so many companies are cutting WFH
• DontAsk0205: Yet companies keep mandating RTO. The worst part is that there’s no reasoning with the people who make these decisions.

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GitHub’s official AI & ML blog published Building a general-purpose accessibility agent and what we learned in the process, a May 15, 2026 post about piloting a Copilot-backed accessibility agent that answers engineer questions and reviews front-end pull requests before accessibility defects reach production.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 17, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original article is Kim Zetter’s May 16, 2026 Zero Day report, Experts Confirm the Fast16 Malware Was Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Tests, Likely in Iran.

What Fast16 was built to do

Fast16 matters because it reframes one of the oldest assumptions about cyber sabotage. The obvious image is a machine breaking: centrifuges spinning out of control, industrial equipment shutting down, or a facility losing power. Zetter’s report describes something quieter and arguably more corrosive. Fast16 appears to have been designed to make engineers trust the wrong numbers.

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I hate the engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI. I also want to be one of them. (Blind)

• RnBnG (Uber): Ignore anyone trying to troll, it’s normal to grapple with a contradiction like this. I have prep notes on both Anthropic and OpenAI’s processes Well, if I’m being honest, I only have Anthropic but I am planning on getting my hands on info about Open AI howver I can.
• dhcuvsk (Amazon): Engineers are not doing much. It’s the researchers that are pushing the model breakthroughs.
• SqgE48 (Spotify): The problem is not the engineers… they are just doing their work, the problem is capitalism and the fact that now companies that dominate the fucking economy can do the same with way less.

Amazon is laying off in “secret” RIGHT NOW and it’s strategic. (Blind)

• rasesh (Amazon): BS … no silent layoffs are happening … I see lot of silent hiring infact
• XqXe67: Yet people will be clamoring to join the second they post a job.
• BB-18 (Google): What a POS company

Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day (r/technology)

• darkrose3333: This country needs to rewrite its employment laws. Companies shouldn’t be able to layoff just to get a temporary bump on the books. Stop destroying peoples’ lives just so number go up you sick fucks
• Majestically-Silver: As someone who was affected by one of their layoffs last year and is still looking for work, fuck them.
• HoosierRed: Hey just remember that Tech is there to exploit you, not to carry us all into a better age.

The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly (r/technology)

• Syzygy2323: I’m just waiting for the AI bubble to burst so I can buy RAM and SSDs again without taking out a second mortgage.
• RidetheSchlange: An AI backlash would not be ugly. It would be warranted.
• Luna-D-reams: “Why is everyone so mad at me? I’m only trying to take everyone’s jobs, water, and electricity!”

Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and “irreversible.” (r/technology)

• Severus-Snape-DaGod: Data centers should be required to finance and build their own power generation instead of shifting those costs onto residents.
• King_Kung: I’m pretty sure we could reverse it if we really wanted to
• Curious_Maximum_639: Irreversible because corporations only increase prices.

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Cloudflare’s official engineering blog published Our billing pipeline was suddenly slow. The culprit was a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse, a post about a production performance regression in a petabyte-scale ClickHouse deployment and the upstream database changes Cloudflare made to fix it.

The setting is unusually concrete. Cloudflare uses ClickHouse to run millions of daily analytical queries that determine customer usage, support billing for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and feed fraud systems and other operational workflows. The affected platform, Ready-Analytics, lets internal teams stream data into a shared ClickHouse table instead of hand-designing separate schemas. Records are distinguished by namespace, sorted within each namespace by an indexID, and ordered by timestamp, giving the table a primary key shaped around tenant-specific query patterns.