Iran targeted AWS infrastructure in an attack aimed at taking Claude offline. OpenAI shipped GPT-5.4 with measurable coding improvements. Researchers got living brain cells running DOOM. These are not metaphors.
The newsletter also covers what 10x engineering identity looks like when AI compresses the skill gap, two new tools worth testing in Handy for speech-to-text and a web haptics library, and Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros now open for pre-order.
The Iran-AWS detail alone makes this worth opening. The framing around engineer identity in the AI era is the piece most readers will actually sit with.
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