This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again!
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Runner-up Titles
- Cote’ shock jock mode
- Art with squids
- Command-Line Life Style
- AI isn’t for experts.
- The triumph of the command line
- The command line lifestyle is now available
- I don’t even know what sed is
- The Human Line
Rundown
- Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
- Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources
- The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025
- “The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3.”
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- What is Configuration as Data?
- RDEL #115: What are the 2025 benchmarks for the DORA 4 metrics?
- a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
- An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
- Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
- Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
- Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake
- The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects
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Conferences
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- SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking
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