WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue  158 - It's AI me…

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Hello fellow developer, while we are busy checking the over 2000 talk submissions for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress here are more news from the world of AI and a great episode of Coffee with Developers about detecting cake in JavaScript. You can also learn about "vibe coding" and why hallucinations of LLMs are the least of our worries. But first, here's a superb conference to check out:

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Coffee with Developers

We met with Carly Richmond - Principal Developer Advocate at Elastic - to discuss how she builds side projects to experiment with new tech, work through ideas and - most importantly - has fun doing so. We look at Carly’s "Is It Cake" inspired, machine powered online game Is It Fake, and how she used JavaScript to build it. Check out the video!

What's happening in AI

• Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
• Young coders no longer know how their code works - we didn't need AI for that…
• Save the AI - a tongue-in-cheek call to arms.
• A detailed comparison of AI tools
• People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now

Security and Privacy

• The Power of Ten – rules for developing safety critical code
• As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses
• How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta
• Does Claude 3.7 Sonnet generate insecure code?
• Analzsing DeepSeek’s training data uncovered 12,000 API keys and passwords

Software Development

• Six things that slow down your site’s UX (and why you have no control over them)
• You should not use URLPattern to route HTTP requests on the server
• Learn shader programming with Rick and Morty
• We are destroying software
• Why the ‘spirit’ of open source means much more than a license

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• upfetch - advanced fetch client builder.
• random - seedable random number generator with many common distributions.
• Convert entire Websites from HTML to Markdown - for LLM nomnomnom
• Screen sharing application with Next.js, WebRTC, and PeerJS - get a room

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Play: Serial Killer or programming language inventor?
• Doom Captcha - are you worthy to submit the form?
• Gimme Gimme Gimme - `man` after midnight.

• What is Vibe Coding?
• The vanishing middle class of tech
• Product development processes you might not have heard of
• Workers’ experience with AI chatbots in their jobs
• Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you’re screwed unless you take action…

Companies to check:

• IT Service Manager/ Product Owner CRM Dynamics Plattform at ASFiNAG
• Java Developer at Picnic Technologies B.V.
• TYPO3 Entwicklung at Projektron
• Ausbildung Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung at CGI
• Teamleiter Bereich Softwareentwicklung at PDV.group

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