Just enough automation (News)

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Zach Gates quantifies the value of automating things, Albania’s new prime minister names an AI “minister” to his Cabinet, Eckart Walther launches Really Simple Licensing (RSL) along with some big names on the web, Vishnu Haridas praises UTF-8’s design, and Justin Searls disagrees with last week’s headline story about AI coding tools and shovelware.

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1. What up, construction nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.dustyrobotics.com/?utm_source=changelog-news

2. Just enough automation (00:00:38)

https://bevel.work/blog/just-enough-automation/?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Albania welcomes its first AI overlord (00:01:30)

https://apnews.com/article/albania-new-cabinet-parliament-ai-minister-diella-corruption-5e53c5d5973ff0e4c8f009ab3f78f369?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Really Simple Licensing for the AI-first internet (00:02:49)

https://rslstandard.org/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Depot (00:03:58)

https://depot.dev/blog/now-available-remote-agent-sandboxes?utm_source=changelog-news

6. UTF-8 is a brilliant design (00:04:51)

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design?utm_source=changelog-news

7. I've got your shovelware right here (00:05:49)

https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-09-08-i-ve-got-your-shovelware-right-here/?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:06:52)

https://changelog.news