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The events at the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw last night were not elegant but the alternative was to concede an unconstitutional transformation of Poland into a presidential republic. Poland continues to be ruled by a coalition government elected by parliament.

🚨 Judge Sparkle Sooknanan has struck down the Trump administration's expanded SAVE voter-verification system, ruling that federal agencies unlawfully created a centralized database containing Social Security and citizenship data to facilitate mass voter verification.

Luxury consists of two components: experience and exclusion. The proportions between them are highly variable. For example, cars have a much higher experience contribution than watches. As making a high speed car is harder than making a high precision watch.

AI code is more dangerous than bad code. A junior's mistakes are obvious. The naming is off, the style is messy, you see the shortcut from a mile away. You know exactly where to look. Takes 5 minutes in review. AI-generated code is clean, idiomatic, properly styled, and confidently wrong. The logic fails at the architectural level while looking production-ready on the surface. That's not a small difference. That's a different kind of problem. 22,000 developers tracked over 2 years. Bugs per developer up 54%. Review time up 200%. 31% of PRs now merge with zero review at all. Not insufficient review. Zero. And 25% of pull requests are now reviewed by other AI agents because teams figured they'd automate their way out of the bottleneck. It's not working. You can't solve "code that fools humans" by adding more automation. The bottleneck is senior engineers. They're the only ones reading past the syntax. And nobody's asking what happens when their review queue triples while leadership celebrates velocity metrics. I wonder how many engineers are actually thinking before they press enter.