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They just change who pays the bill, and you, the one writing code, sit at the end of that chain.</description></item><item><title>Google AI Mode Is Killing Search Traffic, and the Industry Keeps Optimizing Anyway</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/google-ai-mode-killing-search-traffic-industry/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/google-ai-mode-killing-search-traffic-industry/</guid><description>Google AI Mode routes 93% of search traffic away from your site. SEO is no longer a growth strategy. It&amp;rsquo;s damage control with diminishing returns.</description></item><item><title>Google AI Mode Is Killing Search Traffic, and the Industry Keeps Optimizing Anyway</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/google-ai-mode-killing-search-traffic/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/google-ai-mode-killing-search-traffic/</guid><description>Google AI Mode routes 93% of search traffic away from your site. SEO is no longer a growth strategy. It&amp;rsquo;s damage control with diminishing returns.</description></item><item><title>Google AI Mode Is Killing Search Traffic, and the Industry Keeps Optimizing Anyway</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/google-mode-killing-search-traffic-industry-keeps/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/google-mode-killing-search-traffic-industry-keeps/</guid><description>Google AI Mode routes 93% of search traffic away from your site. SEO is no longer a growth strategy. It&amp;rsquo;s damage control with diminishing returns.</description></item><item><title>Who Can't Debug AI Code Is Losing the Job. And It's Not the Junior.</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-code-debug-skills-junior-developers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-code-debug-skills-junior-developers/</guid><description>Debugging AI-generated code hasn&amp;rsquo;t disappeared: it&amp;rsquo;s become a different skill. The seniors who haven&amp;rsquo;t figured that out are the ones at risk.</description></item><item><title>The AI Patch Wave Is Here, and Your Patching Process Is the Bottleneck</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-patch-wave-security-process/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-patch-wave-security-process/</guid><description>The AI patch wave isn&amp;rsquo;t coming. It&amp;rsquo;s already here. NCSC warns of industrial-scale vulnerability discovery. Your patching process is the real bottleneck.</description></item><item><title>VS Code Added AI Commit Authorship by Default, With No Opt-In</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/copilot-git-commit-attribution-default/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/copilot-git-commit-attribution-default/</guid><description>VS Code signed your commits with Copilot by default. Microsoft rolled it back after backlash. But AI commit authorship is still decided by your IDE vendor, not you.</description></item><item><title>Developer Loyalty to AI Tools Isn't Dead. It Moved to the Workflow.</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/developer-loyalty-ai-tools/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/developer-loyalty-ai-tools/</guid><description>Google says developer loyalty to AI coding tools is at zero. But developers who spent weeks configuring Claude Code disagree, without knowing it.</description></item><item><title>The Future of Software Development Has Less Code. More Unanswered Questions.</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/future-software-development-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/future-software-development-ai/</guid><description>AI Dev 26 brought 3,000 devs to debate the future of software development: AI agents write 100% of code, humans orchestrate. Who debugs when it fails at 3am?</description></item><item><title>Cal.com closed its code over AI security fears. Open source doesn't work that way.</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/open-source-security-ai-cal-com/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/open-source-security-ai-cal-com/</guid><description>Cal.com went proprietary citing AI security threats. Open source security doesn&amp;rsquo;t survive by hiding code — it&amp;rsquo;s never worked that way, and AI makes it worse.</description></item><item><title>AI Code Is Not Disposable: It Is Security Debt</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-generated-code-security/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-generated-code-security/</guid><description>Schneier imagines a future where AI tilts the balance toward defenders. But LLM-generated code is already in production, remains in systems, and risks becoming security debt.</description></item><item><title>AI Token Inflation Is Not a Bug: It's the Business Model</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-token-inflation-business-model/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/ai-token-inflation-business-model/</guid><description>Token billing for AI APIs does not measure value produced, but consumption controlled by the vendor. Why LLM costs can grow over time, where lock-in begins, and how production teams can protect themselves.</description></item><item><title>Vibe Coding, GPL and Copyright: The Legal Bomb Inside AI Code</title><link>https://techmonk.red/posts/vibe-coding-gpl-copyright-ai-code/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://techmonk.red/posts/vibe-coding-gpl-copyright-ai-code/</guid><description>An ext4 driver for OpenBSD written with ChatGPT and Claude was rejected over copyright concerns. The case shows why AI-generated code can become a legal risk for GPL, BSD, MIT, and Apache projects.</description></item></channel></rss>