Your coding assistant is no longer just autocomplete with swagger; it is another production dependency.

The Weird Thing That Changed This Week

Most dev news is confetti with a changelog attached. This week was different.

On one side, OpenAI said an internal reasoning model disproved a longstanding conjecture in discrete geometry. Not “wrote a nicer regex.” Not “summarized a Jira ticket.” It produced work that external mathematicians checked.

On the other side, GitHub confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repos were breached after an employee installed a malicious VS Code extension.