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What actually makes you senior (News)
Dec 1, 2025 · 9 min · 9.3 MB
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Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there’s no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD data at rest might be at risk.
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- 0:00What up, "sotl" nerds?
- 0:49What actually makes you senior
- 2:05Slop Evader
- 2:55Zig moves off GitHub
- 4:21Sponsor: Namespace
- 5:34No free lunch in vibe coding
- 6:52Your SSD isn't as permanent as you think
- 7:43Changelog News Classified
- 8:49That's the news for now