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There’s a sweeping “manifesto” that’s making the rounds with software engineers — and many say it’s dead on.Proton CTO Bart Butler wrote a three-page sermon on the state of coding, as reported by 404 Media. The memo explains that the role of the engineer is no longer what it once was, and the company must adapt to the state of AI.”Your job has fundamentally changed,” the memo reads. “It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.”Proton did not respond…

Workers remove downed trees from the East Potomac golf course on Monday. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption toggle caption i Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge is launching a formal inquiry into potential misconduct by Trump administration officials in the lawsuit over East Potomac Park, including whether they repeatedly misrepresented the president’s plans for the municipal D.C. golf course. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered Friday’s hearing — the third in as many weeks — to seek clarity from government lawyers days after they acknowledged in writing Wednesday that there is a plan to transform the municipal golf…

Noa Argamani said she never doubted that she would return home alive when she was held hostage by Hamas.That optimism was unwavering, she said in a conversation with editor in chief Jamie Heller at Business Insider’s “The Long Play” event on Thursday, even as two friends died in captivity and she regularly heard rockets and bombs exploding. “I was by myself in a tiny room,” Argamani said.She said she found something to be grateful for in the smallest of comforts, like half a liter of water, a sock, or a blanket.”I said thank you for everything that I have at…

MrBeast has found his first CMO, Business Insider exclusively learned.The top YouTuber’s company promoted Michelle St. Jacques to the role. St. Jacques has led consumer goods, including Feastables, MrBeast’s snack and candy company, since February.In her new role, she’ll add marketing duties for Beast Industries, the star’s holding company, while continuing to oversee consumer goods. She’s based in Chicago.Beast Industries started the search earlier this year, a move that reflected the company’s growing ambitions. It’s been expanding far beyond its core YouTube channel and seeks to become a Disney-style entertainment giant.Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold said in a memo to…

Ever since my wife and I started dating about eight years ago, we’ve talked openly about our personal finances.From the very beginning, we discussed our 401(k) withholdings and emergency funds. These conversations became even more important when we started living together and sharing expenses about a year into our relationship.As a queer couple, my wife and I have always believed that we can write our own rules when it comes to how we approach our finances. Our incomes have varied over the years for many reasons, and we’ve tried several different payment breakdowns before finding what works for us.Over the…

No one is safe from Elon Musk’s trolling. Not even his own shareholders.Musk set his sights on Binance cofounder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao on Thursday after hackers breached the cryptocurrency trading platform.Earlier that day, Binance said it was investigating a potential security breach and that hackers siphoned away as much as $6.3 billion. Binance initially said the breach may have involved a staffer’s compromised laptop, but later said the “complex attack” went beyond that. Two cryptocurrency tracing firms have linked the attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking group.While Binance users panicked and crypto markets wavered, Musk, who has tangled online…

Consumers are concerned about rising fuel prices and affordability — and that could be showing up in how fast the least expensive cars are moving off dealer lots.From the first quarter to the third, the number of days it took a dealer to sell a vehicle priced between $20,000 and $29,999 dropped 20%, according to data from Edmunds. That pace of selling saw the biggest acceleration of any price segment. Vehicles priced from $30,000 to $39,999 sold about 18% faster, and the number of days it took to sell the next tier — $40,000 to $49,999 — dropped nearly 12%,…

Warren Buffett hasn’t had a glass of water since at least the 1970s.That’s what the 96-year-old business icon once told Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager recalled during an episode of the Equity Mates Investing podcast that aired this week.Ackman said that Buffett came over for dinner at his home “years ago,” and he’d made sure to stock up on the legendary investor’s favorite drink, Cherry Coke.The Pershing Square founder and CEO said that once they were sitting at the table, he asked Buffett whether he’d like still or sparkling water. Buffett politely declined, opting for his preferred soda…

Reddit announced on Thursday that it will soon start being a (mostly) logged-in-only experience, citing declining search traffic as one of the reasons. Redditors, who are famously level-headed and open to change, reacted about how you would expect.In an earnings call, CEO Steve Huffman said that Google’s AI Overviews “are not traffic drivers”,” and that “Google has really shifted in their relationship with the rest of the internet.”It wasn’t so long ago — June 2024 — that I wrote an article with the headline “Reddit’s traffic is way, way up. Like, banoodles up.”Things have changed a lot in those two…

A traditional job typically comes with a regular paycheck and benefits — a measure of stability and predictability.Entrepreneurship offers neither. It comes with risk and uncertainty. There is potential for a big payoff, but no guarantees.Popsmith CEO Tal Moore put it bluntly: “You have to be insane to be an entrepreneur,” he told Business Insider. “Because there’s so much risk. There’s so much turbulence.”He and his cofounder nearly ran out of money while building their high-end stovetop popcorn popper.”I ended up selling $600,000 worth of my personal stock to keep us afloat,” Moore said.It was stressful, of course, but Moore…