Hatchet’s engineers distilled two years of production Postgres battles into a concise survival guide. It walks you through schema design, connection pooling, indexing, query planning, migrations, and autovacuum, giving concrete rules of thumb to keep your database performant as traffic grows. Follow it to avoid the common crashes that trip fast‑moving startups.
AI is turning execution into a commodity, making context and judgement the new scarce resource. Huber outlines a 12‑factor playbook, own your data context, rent intelligence, build unique tools, buy infra, hire agents, keep teams tiny but high‑taste, and embed learning rubrics, to help companies reorganize around that bottleneck.
Forward‑deployed engineers bridge product and customer, but talent is scarce and costly. Insight Partners gathered four FDE leaders who outline six concrete tactics, hire for spark, use rotating pods, embed in product, pay base‑heavy, guard against burnout, and treat the bench as a lasting capability. CEOs can apply these playbooks to build a scalable, high‑impact FDE function.
Monday.com is slashing 20% of its workforce, about 630 roles, to fund a leaner AI‑first operating model. The cuts fund its AI Work Platform, a no‑code builder, custom agents, workflow automation, and chat‑driven reporting, signaling the company's bet that AI tools will become core to enterprise productivity. The move mirrors a broader tech‑layoff wave driven by AI pivots.
Customers may admit a problem exists yet stay stuck. Jerry shows that the decisive factor is spotting the moment, internal or external, that pushes them from awareness to seeking a solution. Identifying that trigger lets sales teams target prospects who are already in motion, turning ‘maybe’ into a deal.
Science Corp secured CE marking for its PRIMA retinal implant, making it the first BCI device approved in Europe to restore functional central vision to patients with geographic atrophy from age‑related macular degeneration. The approval opens commercial rollout across 30 EU countries, with initial implants slated for Germany, and the company is pursuing FDA clearance in the US.
The post debunks the myth that competition is irrelevant for B2B SaaS. It shows how a modest dip in win‑rates snowballs into revenue loss, layoffs, and morale collapse, and argues that only bold, win‑rate‑driving moves, not tiny product tweaks, can halt the slide.
Amplitude built an autonomous software factory and cut its pull‑request cycle time, achieving a three‑fold increase in shipped PRs over six months. By automating environment setup, CI, and leveraging AI‑assisted coding, engineers moved from doing every step to steering the pipeline, letting the team ship more experiments faster.
Semrush analyzed 1,094 US ChatGPT categories and found only 15.2% had a clear brand owner. When a brand does own a topic, it stays first in 90.4% of month‑over‑month comparisons, making AI‑search positioning a winner‑takes‑most game. Traditional SEO metrics only modestly predict which brands win.
A new experiment generated 1,008 SVGs across seven top‑tier models to test whether labs are padding results on the infamous pelican‑on‑a‑bicycle prompt. The analysis, with LLM judges and visual scoring, uncovers patterns that suggest selective optimization, raising trust concerns for benchmark‑driven hype in the AI market.
PostHog says by 2030 AI agents will do most product work, while humans only approve decisions and monitor changes. To support that shift they’re building ‘agent‑first’ infrastructure, complete APIs, permissions and context pipelines, so the UI becomes a supervisory layer instead of a button‑click interface.
The author recounts a library shelver stint where random reads of checked‑out nonfiction revealed depth and rigor missing from today’s AI‑generated text. With AI churning out endless low‑quality “slop,” the piece argues that human‑curated long‑form nonfiction now serves as a crucial antidote, restoring value to serious reading.
Codeberg’s community voted to prohibit any cryptocurrency‑related repositories, arguing that even a few shady projects could tarnish the platform’s reputation. The motion passed in an assembly pull request, making the open‑source forge the first major code host to outright ban crypto work. Hosts now face tighter content policies.
You’re caught up.
That was all 13 stories in the 23 July issue.