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Project Dark Factory

Factories went fully automated in 2001. Now the same pattern is arriving in software, and a handful of teams are already shipping production code that no human wrote or reviewed.

Philip
  • Dark Factory
  • AI
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The Coming Shift in How We Pay for the Internet

When anyone can rebuild any app in a day, moats and money move. Cloudflare's new monetization gateway and the x402 protocol are the first signals of a pay-per-access web, and it could reshape the free internet we grew up with.

Philip
  • AI
  • Internet
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From Bootcamp Grad to Full-Time Software Engineer: What Actually Worked for Me

A career-changer describes how he became a software engineer at NekkoLabs after attending Tokyo's Code Chrysalis bootcamp. He credits three choices: not outsourcing his thinking to AI, investing in relationships, and contributing to open source where he met his current boss.

Matt
  • Career
  • Engineering

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