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academia.stackexchange.com

Seems like the student’s main advisor fully wrote the paper draft with AI, what to do?

What ever happened to plagiarizing the old fashioned way?

cseducators.stackexchange.com

As a tutor, I have a 7th grader who wants to learn Python, and her parents want it tied to AI

The children are our AI future.

buddhism.stackexchange.com

Teaching newcomers: where is the line between meeting someone where they are and validating their wrong views?

Forget everything you knew about Buddhism.

philosophy.stackexchange.com

What makes us perceive something as real?

It’s the same question OutKast was asking when they sang, “I’m sorry Miss Jackson, I am for real.”

What does an agentic SDLC actually look like?

Ryan welcomes Suneet Malhotra, Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Motorola Solutions, to chat about building end-to-end agentic SDLC pipelines using MCPs, using Cohen’s kappa to evaluate multiple LLMs-as-judges, and how you can improve requirements by shifting QA left through a specification enrichment stage immediately after the design phase.

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nanochess.org

How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser

And it’s all backed-up on floppy discs, like the software gods intended.

science.org

Taking a tip from plants—for the eyes?

Now you can use plants to fix the dry, red eyes you get from using a different leafy green weed…

arstechnica.com

Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

“Skeleton 150 was in terrible shape, even for a dead guy.”

declaude.org

How AI text watermarking works

So they don’t just put, “Written by Claude,” in invisible ink at the end?

unsung.aresluna.org

“Gravity is worth asking about.”

Sir Isaac Newton should have been focusing on ensh*ttification instead of apples falling.

chipsandcheese.com

NVIDIA’s vera whitepaper has a thread loose

“The benchmark section is where the whitepaper, ostensibly about a CPU, starts wearing an AI conference badge it found on the floor.”

scalex.dev

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40,000 plays

In a game simulation, to be clear.

mayerowitz.io

Mario meets Pareto

So 80% of all the Princess Peach kidnappings are caused by 20% of the Bowsers?

pudding.cool

How the words we teach English language learners changed, and what that says about us

Why isn’t tokenmaxxing on the list of words we teach English learners?

inkandswitch.com

Convergence is not enough

Merges—the bane of both the programmer and student driver.

yegge.ai

The shape of things to come

All you need is infinite tokens to really get things done with AI.

gruhn.me

Don't be a meat proxy

Also, don’t be a meat energy source unless you want to end up in The Matrix.

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Issue 342: To hype AI or to not hype AI?

We’ve talked a lot about the hype cycle ever-present in technology. And while many are still bullish about the future of AI, this issue we’re giving you a little reality check about what it’s actually like to work with AI. We sit down with Amazon Stores' McLaren Stanley to discuss what it actually takes to be "fearlessly AI native," why agentic engineering is shifting bottlenecks from writing code to testing it, and how robust validation enables fearless commits. On the blog, we explore why chasing the myth of the "100x engineer" isn't actually the best way to drive AI adoption on your team. Plus, we chat with Render's CEO Anurag Goel about why your latest startup MVP absolutely does not need a Kubernetes cluster, and why DevOps jobs aren’t going anywhere. And we’re not the only ones coming back to earth about AI hype. We’ve got stories from the web this week dissecting NVIDIA’s marketing heavy Vera whitepaper, and taking a look at one dev’s human-in-the-loop game that exposed some not so great follies in AI/human collaboration. One thing that’s always immune to overhype is the curious minds on the Stack sites. This week, we have knowledge for you on everything from solar eclipses, bad academic advisors, and selling your car for a just a dollar or two. In this case you can believe the hype—we really do have all of that and more ready for you below.

Issue 341: Are you a human or a robot?

What happens when our bots start acting more like us and we start acting more like our bots? And look, unless the robots are Robin Williams as The Bicentennial Man, it probably isn’t good. The truth is, our tools aren’t the only things evolving—the way we’re using them is changing too. This week, we’re taking a look at the good, the bad, and the slop of human-AI interactions. On the pod, WPEngine’s Ramadass Prabakar chats with us about how our online world is changing because of bots disguised as humans and what we need to do to keep human actions protected on our internet. Komodor’s Asaf Savich joins us to discuss the evolving world of AI-powered SRE and where humans still need to be in the loop for reliability. On the blog, we’re exploring what happens when we become too attached to our developer tools in a world where those tools are constantly changing (spoiler: we stop trusting the tools we’re so attached to). And speaking of trust, we’re diving into how context is the best risk mitigation strategy for unwieldy AI-powered programs, and taking a look at the new features launching in Stack Internal that are helping build that context. From the web, we’ve got stories on how not to use AI in human interactions, what we can achieve with infinite tokens, and how our language—and how we learn it—is evolving. And of course, this wouldn’t be your trusty Overflow newsletter if we didn’t satiate your curiosity. If you’ve been wondering about the legality of the original Trojan Horse, if Odysseus had weird feet, or how original your academic career is, we’ve got all of that and more ready for you down below.

Issue 340: Friends in code places

Personally, we think we could all use some coding friends in this day and age. For instance, good friends give you a reality check when you need it most. In this issue, some of our buddies are here to give us a reality check on the state of software development. We sit down with Snowflake’s Umesh Unnikrishnan to break down why the future of dev is full-stack and how enterprise software is adapting to autonomous agents. We welcome back VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht to discuss Cloudflare acquiring VoidZero, proving that good friendships can keep major open-source ecosystems like Vite alive. Plus Stack’s very own Michael Foree teaches us about context engineering in the latest No Dumb Questions. If you’re looking for something fun to do with your friends, we’ve got stories from around the web for inspiration. You could, for instance, explore one of the 2,435 castles around the world with them. Or find some deep sea coral together. Or port DOOM onto a custom CPU. And what would friendship be without some occasional tough love? No one gives out tough love better than our Stack community, who are sharing their knowledge on everything from bad teaching practices to seeing in the dark to shared memories. We have all of those links and more ready for you down below, bestie. No need to thank us. I mean, what are friends for?

Issue 339: Summertime and the codin's easy

If you had asked us last summer what dev life would be like in 2026, we probably wouldn’t have guessed right. But now that the summer of 2026 is upon us, there’s not much we can do but roll with the punches and get a little tan while we can. To really celebrate the warmth of summer, this week we’ve decided to look at the sunnier side of agentic workflows. On the pod, we’re chatting with new friends and old about how the latest tools out of Microsoft and GitHub are making code generation easier than ever—with the caveat that easier code doesn’t always mean easier work. Microsoft’s Sarah Bird shares with us how we can build more responsible AI to combat some of the negatives of agentic workflows, and what research is saying about responsible human-AI collaboration. And what feels like summer more than catching up with longtime pals? GitHub dev advocate née Stack pod host Cassidy Williams returns to weigh-in on the newest updates to GitHub Copilot and the current state of the developer community. Beyond the blog, we’re dipping our toes into the vast pool of interesting internet stories, covering everything from the joys of piracy to the latest ways to fool AI. And get your sunblock out—this week’s round-up of burning questions from our community is in. Whether you’re dealing with scammers or bad collaborators, like an umbrella on a hot beach day, the curious minds of the Stack community got you covered. It’s looking like it’s going to be a scorcher—might as well dive right in at the links below.