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What are AI agents and can they be trusted? What blindspots are there in AI? How can we secure MCP and LLM alternatives to be excited about

| WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest View in browser Issue 164: AI Agents, AI Blindspots and MCP security problems WeAreDevelopers World Congress 9-11/7/25 - get 15% off using code devdigest Hello fellow developer, this time we look into the issues of MCP, explain AI agents and give those also feeling AI fatigue alternatives to be excited about. We also check if we already live in "post developer times" and teach you how to be a pragmatic open source contributor. All this and more if you keep scrolling…  Martin O'Hanlon of Neo4j with a whirlwind presentation how to tame LLMs and make them hallucinate less and give you what you need instead. The solution: graphs. Level up your GenAI game today! Check out the talk from last week's WeAreDevelopers LIVE! What's happening in AI What are AI Agents and why do they matter? State of AI in 10 Charts Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support in VS Code AI Blindspots Security and Privacy Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems Slopsquatting - AI-hallucinated code dependencies as a supply chain risk LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Everything Wrong with MCP Threat Modeling GitHub - How vulnerable-by-design is GitHub? Software Development Five Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About Lessons learned from my first dive into WebAssembly 5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know Grepping logs remains terrible Every Caching Strategy Explained in 5 Minutes Tips, Tricks and Tools dAWShund - keep your AWS dependencies on a leash GitMCP - a Remote MCP server for any GitHub repository Lighthouse Scoring Calculator Playwright MCP - a browser automation capable MCP server using Playwright. A Simple Physics Engine in GoLang Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web Which episode was that? Making your favorite TV Show searchable Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? CSS Clicker Programming in PostScript Career and Culture: The Post-Developer Era The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor Startup CEO Charged After 'AI' Turns Out to Be Humans in the Philippines A case against MVPs: Why I’ve grown to hate “The Lean Startup” AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change? Companies to check: Senior Linux Dev (x64/ARM) at Stratodesk Software Senior Software Engineer at HiQ Software Developer C# / .Net WPF at NDT Global Senior QA Engineer at Riverty Senior Data Scientist at Flaconi Riverty Group Sartorius Picnic Technologies B.V. Wilken GmbH Projektron More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria WeAreDevelopers, Schottenfeldgasse 23, Vienna, Vienna 1070, Austria Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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