Linus Torvalds is now pushing AI-generated code into the Linux kernel. That sentence would have sounded absurd two years ago. It doesn't now.
This edition of Changelog News packs five stories worth your time: Jordan Fulghum argues 2025 is the breakout year for self-hosting, FracturedJSON offers a concrete solution to the compact-vs-readable formatting tradeoff, Scott Werner makes the case that a flood of merely adequate software is about to reshape the industry, and Sean Goedecke takes a scalpel to generic software design advice and explains why most of it fails in practice.
The Torvalds angle alone makes this worth opening, but the Werner and Goedecke pieces are the ones that will stick with you. One predicts a structural shift in how software gets made. The other challenges the mental models most engineers carry around unchallenged. Read both before you have opinions about either.
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