Factory co-founder Matan Grinberg said on X that he removed Chris Degnan from his role as board advisor after alleging Degnan shared confidential Factory information with competitor Cognition. Hours later, Degnan announced on X and LinkedIn that he had joined Cognition as chief revenue officer. Grinberg said Degnan had previously denied any interest in joining Cognition before disclosing ongoing talks with the company this week.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-30
A developer released Corral, a Linux command-line tool that runs a shell command with a time limit and ensures every process it spawned, including detached daemons, is terminated before returning. It uses cgroup v2's cgroup.kill for guaranteed cleanup when available, or acts as a child subreaper tracking processes via /proc and pidfds otherwise, and exits with code 120 if it cannot verify a clean kill. The tool requires Linux 5.11 or later, with 5.14 needed for its enforced cgroup mode, and is not intended as a security sandbox.
github.com
· 2026-09-29
The creator of the AI coding app Nuanced has written that plan modes, once central to their product's approach, are losing relevance as AI models improve. They argue plan modes historically served two purposes: giving agents precise enough instructions, and helping humans understand what was being built, but that the first purpose is fading as models advance while the second still matters, just not through plan modes.
aymannadeem.com
· 2026-09-25
While many tech firms cite AI code-generation as reason to cut entry-level hiring, one company says it is increasing its junior engineer headcount instead. The company argues that AI tools handle routine coding tasks but cannot substitute for the on-the-job learning that turns junior developers into engineers with real judgment and intuition.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-18
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