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I'm Starting a YouTube Series Where I Code With Zero AI. Here's Why That Feels Radical in 2026.

A few months ago I caught myself staring at a merge conflict for a solid two minutes, completely stuck, before I remembered that resolving merge conflicts is not actually hard. I had just forgotten how to do it without a suggestion popping up first.

That moment stuck with me. I've been a full-stack developer for years, running my own company, shipping products, writing code every single day. And somewhere in the last couple of years, a huge chunk of the actual thinking got outsourced without me really noticing. Autocomplete finishes the sentence. Autocomplete finishes the function. Autocomplete finishes the architecture decision. At some point you're not writing code anymore, you're proofreading someone else's.

I'm not writing this to dunk on AI tools. I use them, I ship faster because of them, and I'm not going back to typing every line by hand as some kind of purity test. But I...

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AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What we know so far: A market built for libraries and booksellers is now feeding AI training, as companies seek large volumes of printed books that predate the generative AI boom. ISBNdb, which says

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Valve Updates Steam Machine Queue, Adds CAD Files And FSR 4.1 Support

Following the launch of its new Steam Machine console, Valve has issued a status update addressing production timelines, regional order queues, and software improvements. The company confirmed that hardware units are shipping out daily, with current projections indicating that everyone sitting in the reservation queue should receive an option to

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The hiring results we measured when we deployed agentic AI

One of my first jobs when I started at Workday was to see if we could not only implement for ourselves the AI suite that we were selling to customers, but also measure the results. We could. In the first nine months of embedding AI into our end-to-end hiring process

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Walmart Deals of the Day: You’ve Got a Rare Chance to Save Over $100 on the AirPods Max 2

You don’t have to wait for the next major sale to start scoring some big savings at Walmart. The tech and home retailer offers serious bargains all year long, and CNET’s shopping experts are bringing the very best ones straight to you. Below, you’ll find our top

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AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models

Valve Updates Steam Machine Queue, Adds CAD Files And FSR 4.1 Support

The hiring results we measured when we deployed agentic AI

Walmart Deals of the Day: You’ve Got a Rare Chance to Save Over $100 on the AirPods Max 2