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Banks Turn to AI to Stop Overstocking ATMs

Cash has not disappeared the way many predicted. Cash accounts for 14% of consumer payments in the United States, more than 80% of consumers used it in the past 30 days, and 90% expect to keep using it, the Federal Reserve said Aug. 4 in its 2026 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice.

Agentic Coding and the Design Space You Don't See

One of the interesting things about agentic coding is that it changes where the effort of programming goes. A lot of traditional programming is occupied by fairly mechanical work: remembering APIs, writing glue code, satisfying the type checker, moving values between representations, fixing mundane bugs, etc.

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