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Brazilians vote Sunday in a near-tied runoff between President Lula, seeking a fourth term, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed ex-president, who led the first round 47% to 45%. No candidate has ever won the presidency after finishing second in round one, and Flávio has pledged to free his father, convicted of plotting a 2022 coup.
Dan Luu argues AI coding tools have made once-too-expensive projects cheap enough to try. His examples include pgrust, a Postgres rewrite that has already turned up real Postgres bugs, and his own regex engine, ripgrep fork and faster Rust builds. His advice is to aim at things you'd never have built before and give the model tests and benchmarks so it can check its own work.
OpenAI's price-cutting is pulling coding work away from Anthropic. At Rippling, Anthropic models handled 57% of engineers' coding work in May and OpenAI's handled 16%. That split has since flipped to 52% OpenAI and 18% Anthropic.
Washington is building its Pax Silica supply-chain alliance and Beijing has launched the World AI Cooperation Organization. Smaller countries now face a choice between America's most advanced chips and China's cheaper open-source systems. Kazakhstan joined both within three weeks, a hedge that experts say may not stay open for long.
