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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The Industry Is Normalizing Rushed, Unreviewable Code.
Sunil here. We’ve spent the last decade optimizing software engineering around one thing above all else: speed. Faster releases. Faster deployments. Faster automation. Faster iteration loops.
But this week, it felt like the industry may ge...
The AI Coding Boom Is Turning Into a Security Disaster
Sunil here. We have now crossed a threshold where AI-generated code is a significant and growing fraction of all code in production.
Think back — what happened when we went from hammers and nails to power tools? Faster builds, yes, but als...
The IDE Era Is Over. The Agent Orchestration Era is Now.
Issue #252: This week, Cursor, OpenAI, and Warp each shipped the same architectural vision from a different angle.
Sunil here. Something big happened this week that got buried under the usual AI arms-race coverage. Three completely unrelat...
Meta Spying on Employees to Train AI That Will Replace Them
Inside Meta's employee surveillance program, Palantir's descent into fascism, and a $65B AI arms race — your data is at risk from Big Tech (Again.)
Sunil here. This week, Big Tech seemed to challenge itself to see how much value it could s...
Your Google Account Is Now Your Biggest Security Risk.
From the Vercel hack to Google’s ICE data handover to the Wayback Machine being blocked—how identity, policy, and platforms now control your lives in 2026.
Sunil here, and it’s been a troubling week. Vercel got hacked through a Google OAut...
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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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