Software Engineering as a profession will continue to fundamentally change in 2026. Humans will need to learn to co-adapt to this evolving “alien technology” which comes with no real manual, and figure out how to operate it. What a time to be alive
GENERATIVE AI
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AI Generates Christmas Ad Clip from Hero Image
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Took one hero image → told Dreamina “turn this into a 10-second cinematic Christmas ad clip, slow zoom in, gentle snow falling, subtle sparkle on the robot”
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 26 décembre 2025
Done. Upload-ready for TikTok/Reels. ↓ pic.twitter.com/t78HQGD3awTook one hero image → told Dreamina “turn this into a 10-second cinematic Christmas ad clip, slow zoom in, gentle snow falling, subtle sparkle on the robot” Done. Upload-ready for TikTok/Reels. ↓
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AI Tool Generates Diverse Robot Lifestyle Shots Quickly
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Then I took that same robot image and asked Dreamina to give me 12 different lifestyle shots in 5 minutes. Living room with fireplace, kids playing nearby, kitchen at golden hour, under the Christmas tree — every single one perfectly consistent robot, same lighting mood, same
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MiniMax-M2.1 Excels on SWE-bench and Long-horizon Tasks
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Excels on SWE-bench (incl. multilingual), Terminal-bench, and long-horizon tasks. Try it on Poe across web, desktop, mobile — and via the Poe API at https://
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MiniMax M2.1: Agent-Optimized AI Model for Coding and Planning
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Now on Poe: MiniMax M2.1 An agent-optimized model built for coding, tool use, and long-horizon planning served via @novita_labs (1/2)
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Stanford CS Graduates Face AI-Driven Job Market Contraction
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Stanford CS Grads Face #AI-Driven Job Crunch: Roles Cut 13%, Unemployment Hits 6.1%
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OpenAI launches Sora 2 with improved realism and native audio
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OpenAI: Sora is in broad rollout, and Sora 2 is live
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AI Tools Move From Demos to Production Workflows
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What this means: we’re moving from “cool demos” to production defaults.
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Veo 3 Updates: Creator-Friendly Video Formats and Accessibility
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Also on Veo 3: more creator-friendly formats
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Stability AI Advances Text-to-Image Generation with SD 3.5
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Stability AI: text-to-image keeps leveling up
Stability’s SD 3.5 lineup and Stable Image models focus on higher-fidelity outputs, better prompt adherence, and options tuned for speed vs quality (including “Ultra” and faster variants). https://
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