Last Week in Plain English
Sunil SandhuA weekly dose of tech news, a fascinating global news roundup, with a few unique stories mixed into the concoction.
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Google Wants to Buy Your Private Repos for AI Training.
Sunil here.
Do you assume more data equals more compute and better models? Our benchmarks sure keep improving, so we’ve been assuming that’s how it’s going to work — indefinitely.
This week, that assumption was taken down a couple notche...
AI Hasn’t Killed Indie Devs. It Has FINALLY Made Them Viable
Sunil here.
The dev community has often debated if AI truly “democratized” software development. It’s a fair question — and for the last few years it’s been mostly philosophical — because the real bottleneck was never writing code anyway....
Google I/O 2026 Recap: Giving Agents the Keys to Everything
Google wants to give agents the keys to everything, while a worm steals 3,800 GitHub repos in 18 minutes and government passwords are stored in a public repo.
Sunil here.
The Industry Is Normalizing Rushed, Unreviewable Code.
Tanstack got hijacked via its own CI. OpenAI wants to loan you engineers so you can stuff AI into everything. Bun just rushed its Rust rewrite with AI.
Sunil here. We’ve spent the last decade optimizing software engineering around one thin...
The AI Coding Boom Is Turning Into a Security Disaster
Inside Anthropic’s Code with Claude event, the explosion of AI-generated CVEs, CISA’s first agentic AI guidance, and the rise of AI-native defensive tooling.
Sunil here. We have now crossed a threshold where AI-generated code is a signific...
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Software Engineer turned Serial Entrepreneur. I write a highly opinionated weekly roundup of the week in tech, programming, software development, and AI. My company, In Plain English, empowers people with accessible, educational media.
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