Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 43

Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 43. Pour the coffee, poke the router to make sure it still loves you, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight. Today's stack is AI workplace fever, public-domain books, game preservation law, and one very spicy Bun bug report. First up... Mitchell Hashimoto says there are entire companies living under AI psychosis, and boy, that phrase lands like a printer falling down stairs. The idea is that teams are reorganizing everything around magic chat boxes before the magic part has finished reading the manual. AI is useful, sure, but if your roadmap is just a prompt taped to a whiteboard, maybe sit down and eat a sandwich first. Heh. Hhh, okay, that's something. Second... Project Gutenberg keeps getting better, which is one of those quiet internet miracles nobody brags about because it is too busy actually working. Free books, cleaner access, decades of volunteer care; it's like finding out the old library basement has fiber internet and a responsible backup policy. Not everything has to be a venture-backed toaster with a login screen. Third... California has a bill moving forward that would stop publishers from killing online games and leaving customers with a decorative menu screen. If a company sells you a game, then later flips the server switch off, players are asking for some way to keep the thing playable. Seems fair. Imagine buying a refrigerator that stops cooling because the fridge publisher pivoted to enterprise yogurt. And finally... Bun's Rust rewrite is getting heat from a GitHub issue saying the codebase fails basic Miri checks and may allow undefined behavior in safe Rust. That's the software equivalent of opening the hood and finding a raccoon wearing a hard hat. Rust is supposed to help prevent foot-guns, but only if the sharp parts are actually wired up correctly. That's your daily byte. Have a great day. Until next time. Keep your AI pilots supervised, your old books searchable, your purchased games alive, and your safe Rust actually safe. I'm going to go update one package and then spend the afternoon apologizing to my lockfile.