Shuffle: Making random feel more human

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Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For years, listeners have debated whether Shuffle is “truly random,” often noticing patterns or repeated tracks that didn’t feel random enough.

Shuffle: Making random feel more human

Link: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human?ref=dailydev

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This is a bit under-technical thing. I didn’t get a good flow of the algorithm. i want to understand with an example.

Source: techstructive-weekly-70

A project is not a bundle ot tasks

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Current AIs struggle to create a whole that exceeds the sum of its parts

A project is not a bundle ot tasks

Link: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/a-project-is-not-a-bundle-of-tasks

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This is one of the best and practically grounded takes on the progress on AI. If it can’t make a decision that lasts longer, it might collapse eventually. AI Coding has improved over the last year for sure, but is it there? Not really. A developer still has to understand the logic, think about the AI answers, there has to be a human intuition and judgement to make its way to a sustainable solution. As per the growth, developers might be overgrown by 2030, is that really that quick? Maybe the plateau is almost here. It can code, sure, but it doesn’t create anything. It can create something like they are created by humans, not something out of the blue.

Alien Authors

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How I build software in mid-November 2025

Alien Authors

Link: https://behan.substack.com/p/alien-authors

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Wow, this is just wow. The analogy of writers managing a bunch of written text from AI to create their own story is quite relatable to a developer managing a bunch of parallel agents to generate code and design a feature or come up with a solution. The whole story was really cleverly put and relatable. Though I would argue it’s quite a bad one for making one artist happy. I never want an artist to generate art with AI and tweak and tweak to please someone. Art is something that comes fully from the heart, otherwise, it’s not art. It’s pseudo art, artificial art, forced art.

Gemini 3 is the best model ever made?

Gemini 3 is the best model ever made?

Link: https://youtu.be/39PdgOYjBMg

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Its a good model, it seems its quite heavy and removes the subtle mistakes and biases it has. I love hove Google makes a solid general purpose models. Unlike OpenAI, whose naming conventions are all over the place, its like a slop generation to me. But Gemini models hit different, they just solve what have been given to them. Quite a good upgrade from the 2.5 models. Waiting for Gemini 3 flash version

How bcrypt can be unsafe for more than 72 characters

How bcrypt can be unsafe for more than 72 characters

Link: https://blog.enamya.me/posts/bcrypt-limitation

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Oh, that is wired, use Argon guys, if you aren’t just storing passwords. Nice to know that bcrypt is not safe for passwords greater than 72 characters, who would even store such a long password? But that is the thing, subtle decisions, like this is not a password, so we can use bcrypt, and bam, you would be wrong