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📰 News

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  https://fortune.com/2024/09/20/disney-slack-data-breach-nullbulge/
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• Fall of StackOverflow
  https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

💬 Discussion Topic

State of AI and the Developer Experience

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