A robot called Clawdbot is driving measurable Mac Mini sales, which tells you something about where agentic hardware demand is heading. This issue also covers Daniel Stenberg's decision to shut down curl's bug bounty program, a move worth understanding in full given what it reveals about the economics and incentives of open source security work.
Swizec Teller argues the future of software engineering looks like SRE. Phil Eaton weighs in on what LLMs actually mean for your career. Neither take is comfortable. Both are worth reading for the reasoning, not just the conclusion. Zerobrew also enters the picture, borrowing the best ideas from uv and applying them to Homebrew package management.
The throughline across all five pieces is the same question: what does the job look like in two years. Read the full issue to form your own answer.
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