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AI isn't intelligence.
AI isn't intelligence. It's something else. That's how Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., cuts through the hype, and it reshapes the entire question of what AI can and can't do for developers. This week he makes a provocative case for which coding jobs should actually disappear. We're also wrapping our State of Tech and AI Jobs series with the case for why human and AI aren't in competition, digging into how one team built certificate renewal so the control plane never touches the private keys, and seeing how SteamOS turns any desktop into a console.
In the toolbox, a worried phone call from a friend turns into five Linux tools to clear cache, trim old logs, and keep any distro running lean. This is edition #83 of the We ❤️ Open Source newsletter. Made and curated by Jason & Todd.🙂
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 | Most certificate automation puts private keys through a central platform. TokenTimer's CertOps agent was designed so the control plane never touches them. One decision. Seven architectural consequences. This is how it shaped everything from job dispatch to rollback to observability. WHY WE ❤️ IT: The control plane coordinates work and never gets the key. Several architectural consequences follow. |
 | AI optimism in the workplace and cultural skepticism among younger generations are pulling in opposite directions. The final installment of The State of Tech and AI Jobs series makes the case that human + AI aren't in competition. They're the only combination that actually works. WHY WE ❤️ IT: The "reverse-boomer" dynamic is real and this is the most honest take on AI culture and careers we've read. |
 | Turn any PC into a console? Learn Linux TV puts SteamOS through its paces on desktop hardware, gaming mode, Linux desktop mode, and everything in between, plus the one hardware requirement you'll want to know before you install it. WHY WE ❤️ IT: Jay finds a real Arch Linux terminal hiding inside SteamOS, and that's just one of the fun parts. |
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What's in your technology toolbox?
A phone call from a worried friend turned into a practical guide to Linux maintenance. From clearing package cache with autoremove to trimming old logs with journalctl, here are 5 tools that keep your system updated, secure, and free of storage bloat, no matter which distro you're running.
WHY WE ❤️ IT: Five tools, zero guesswork, and a real story behind why they matter.
From the We ❤️ Open Source Podcast
 | Dr. Venkat Subramaniam has a blunt answer to "will AI replace developers," and it starts with a question about laundry. The founder of Agile Developer, Inc. explains why he thinks about AI as accelerated inference, not intelligence, and makes a provocative case for which coding jobs should actually disappear. WHY WE ❤️ IT: He gets genuinely fired up about Java's structured concurrency, no AI required. |
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