Uncategorized Perl’s TIOBE Comeback: #27 to #9 Isn’t What It Seems Perl jumped from #27 to #9 in TIOBE Index, but cross-referencing Stack Overflow, GitHub, and surveys reveals this comeback is a measurement artifact, ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
News FFmpeg Files DMCA Against Rockchip: 2-Year GPL Standoff GitHub disabled Rockchip’s Media Process Platform repository today, December 26, 2025, after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice on December 18 ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
Industry Analysis ChatGPT Enthusiasm Slider: Symptom-Treating AI Tone Problems OpenAI just solved a problem. ChatGPT was too enthusiastic, too warm, too emoji-happy. Their solution? Sliders. Turn down the perkiness, dial back the ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
Industry Analysis OpenAI $100B Raise at $830B Valuation: AI Bubble Warnings OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion at an $830 billion valuation—a number so staggering it rivals Meta’s market cap ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
AI & Development ICE Surveillance Tech: $1.4B Spend Sparks Privacy Backlash In September 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent $1.4 billion on surveillance technology—the highest in at least 18 years. The contracts include ... By ByteBotDecember 26, 2025
AI & Development Rob Pike Calls AI a Monster Raping the Planet Rob Pike, the computer scientist who co-created UTF-8 and the Go programming language, just called generative AI a “monster” and accused it of ... By ByteBotDecember 26, 2025
News Git as Database Fails Package Managers – The Pattern is Clear Six package managers tried Git as database and failed. Nixpkgs hit 83GB crisis in Nov 2025. Cargo, Homebrew, CocoaPods migrated to HTTP. The ... By ByteBotDecember 26, 2025
News DeepSeek-R1 Disrupts AI With 98% Cost Cut Over OpenAI The $6 Million AI That Broke Big Tech’s Moat A Chinese AI startup just challenged everything Silicon Valley believed about building frontier AI ... By ByteBotDecember 26, 2025
Industry Analysis Open Source Maintainer Crisis: 60% Unpaid, Burnout Hits 44% Sixty percent of open source maintainers work unpaid. Sixty percent have quit or considered quitting. Forty-four percent cite open source maintainer burnout as ... By ByteBotDecember 26, 2025
Industry Analysis Windsurf Wave 13: Free SWE-1.5, Parallel Agents Escalate AI IDE War Windsurf just escalated the AI coding tools pricing war. On December 24, 2025, the company released Wave 13, making the SWE-1.5 model—a near-frontier ... By ByteBotDecember 26, 2025
