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Today: AI design tools produce worse results over time due to model collapse, how ChatGPT plans to monetize through ads and affiliate commissions, what caused widespread DNS failures from CNAME record ordering, JavaScript Date calculation pitfalls across timezones, and containerized approaches to Claude Code permissions. | | |
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🔖 The Reading Room
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How Tools Relying on AI Models Can Break With Updates
The same photo uploaded to the same tool produces worse results six months later. AI design tools are producing worse results over time due to model collapse. When AI systems train on synthetic data generated by other AI, quality degrades within five cycles. The internet is now 50-60% AI-generated content, creating a feedback loop that accelerates degradation.
By Tanya Donska → | |
The A in AGI stands for Ads
And so it begins, ChatGPT is introducing ads in its free tiers. Starting from display ads, future plans include conversational ads allowing follow-up questions and potential affiliate commissions through built-in checkouts. With 950M free users and high-intent queries comparable to Google Search, ChatGPT could achieve $5.50-$50 ARPU as it scales.
By Ossama Chaib → | |
What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
A routine memory optimization update to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 resolver on January 8, 2026, triggered widespread DNS resolution failures by changing the order of CNAME records in responses. While most modern DNS clients treat record order as irrelevant, some implementations like glibc's getaddrinfo expect CNAMEs to appear first and broke when they didn't.
By Sebastiaan Neuteboom → | |
How wrong can a JavaScript Date calculation go?
JavaScript's Date object can produce bizarre results when working across time zones. Adding a month to January 1st, 2024 resulted in March 4th, 2023 due to UTC conversion issues in Pacific Time. The solution: use UTC-specific methods like setUTCMonth() or adopt the upcoming Temporal API for cleaner date manipulation.
By Phil Nash → | |
Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
Claude Code asking for permissions can often break the flow but using the permission-skipping flag risks harming your main system. See how Emil settled on a solution that allows Claude to execute commands freely, install packages, and manage Docker containers while keeping the host system safe from accidental damage.
By Emil Burzo → | | |
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🧰 The Toolbox
Tools and products we're excited about today: | | | |
jQuery 4.0
jQuery 4.0 was released on its 20th anniversary, marking the first major version in nearly 10 years. It drops IE<11 support, adds Trusted Types and ES modules, removes deprecated APIs, and delivers significant size reductions while modernizing the codebase. Learn more → |
| starry-night
Starry-night is an open-source syntax highlighting library replicating GitHub's PrettyLights with 600+ TextMate grammars. It generates hast AST trees for JavaScript and provides high-quality code highlighting with customizable CSS themes for browsers and Node.js applications. Learn more → |
| Puck
Puck is an open-source, MIT-licensed visual editor for React that enables custom drag-and-drop experiences using your own components. It integrates seamlessly with Next.js, Remix, and React Router, ensuring you own your data with no vendor lock-in. Learn more → | |
AionUi
AionUi is an open-source, cross-platform graphical interface that unifies multiple CLI AI agents like Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Codex, and Qwen Code. It features multi-session chat, local data storage, file management with visual preview across 9+ formats, and more. Learn more → |
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Build faster, more resilient applications with cloud-native DevOps on AWS
Modern application teams must move quickly while maintaining security and reliability.
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