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I also use Claude Opus 4.5 to write much of the code here.

I'm a big believer in language models for coding, especially when they are given a precise spec and work with human input.

LLMs in your career.

Here's Phil Eaton, quote, "...the jobs that were dependent on fundamentals of software aren't going to stop being dependent on fundamentals of software.

And if more non-developers are using LLMs, it's going to mean all the more stress on tools and applications and systems that rely on fundamentals of software."

All of this is to say that if you like doing software development, I don't think interesting software development jobs are going to go away.

So keep learning and keep building compilers and databases and operating systems and keep looking for companies that have compiler and database and operating system products or companies with other sorts of interesting problems where fundamentals matter due to their scale.

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I'm Jared, and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, January 19th, 2026.

After nearly 10 years, the jQuery team has released a new major version, 4.0.

Of that library so good, it still runs on about 71% of all websites.

Many of the breaking changes are removing features, more proof of its transcendence.