Five things in tech that matter and we have to make work
summary
Overview of five practical risks and fixes: the old Yahoo Pipes and YQL era shows how fragile mashups become when APIs get closed (Microsoft shutters Bing search APIs in August), companies estimate 20–80% of coding can be automated but generated code needs audit, GitHub Copilot + VS Code extensions drive that shift, autonomous agents scrape and exfiltrate data prompting Cloudflare bot blocks, and emergent attack called slop squatting poisons dependencies—soft skills and curation become career insurance.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Programmable Web
- 5:54API Shifts
- 8:13Code Automation
- 10:06Agents & Security
- 12:17Developer Careers
- 14:55Knowledge Gaps
- 15:42Conclusion
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