Guru's Tech Bytes — April 26, 2026
Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 023, for Sunday, April 26, 2026. First up, a piece making the rounds asks whether the West is now forgetting how to code — following decades of forgetting how to make things. The article argues that outsourcing manufacturing, and now outsourcing software development to AI, is gradually eroding the foundational knowledge that makes real innovation possible. It struck a nerve on Hacker News, pulling in five hundred and twenty-one upvotes and three hundred comments. Second, an amateur mathematician armed with ChatGPT has reportedly cracked a…
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