Uncategorized Anthropic Hiring Test Retired: Claude Beats Humans Anthropic retired its performance engineering hiring challenge this week—because Claude Opus 4.5 started beating human candidates in two hours. The company open-sourced the ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Open Source cURL Ends Bug Bounty Program to Stop AI Slop (Jan 2026) After two years fighting an “AI slop tsunami,” cURL creator Daniel Stenberg shut down the project’s bug bounty program on January 21, 2026. ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
AI & Development Developer Productivity 2026: AI and Platform Engineering Shift Gartner analysts predict that developer effectiveness in 2026 will be “assessed based on creativity and innovation—instead of traditional product-based measures such as velocity, ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Uncategorized Engineering Benchmarks 2026: 8.1M PRs Reveal Productivity LinearB’s 2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report analyzed 8.1 million pull requests from 4,800 engineering teams across 42 countries—the largest empirical dataset of developer ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Uncategorized Soft Delete Pattern: Why It Creates More Problems Adding a deleted_at column to your database table seems elegant. Mark records as deleted instead of destroying them, filter them out in queries, ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
News & Analysis Verizon’s 365-Day Phone Unlock Policy: What Changed Verizon enforced a 365-day phone unlock on Jan 20, 2026, after FCC waiver eliminated 60-day automatic unlock. TracFone users now wait a full ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
AI & Development Humans& Raises $480M Seed Round at $4.48B Valuation Humans&, a three-month-old AI startup founded by veterans from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google, just raised a $480 million seed round at a ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Industry Analysis DRAM Shortage 2026: 70% Price Surge, No Relief Until 2028 DRAM prices surged 70 percent in Q1 2026 following a 50 percent increase throughout 2025, creating the worst memory shortage since the early ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
AI & Development Mastra 1.0: TypeScript AI Framework Reaches Production Mastra 1.0, the TypeScript AI agent framework from the team behind Gatsby, reached stable release on January 21, 2026, after one year of ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
News Nova Launcher Adds Ads Day One: Instabridge 2026 Swedish company Instabridge acquired Nova Launcher on January 20, 2026, and within 24 hours users discovered Facebook Ads and Google AdMob trackers embedded ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
