WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 180: AI code crashes app, how to root copilot and a 200 LOC AI agent 

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 8-10/072026 - get 15% off using code devdigest

Hello fellow developer, as I am ploughing through all the videos of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress to edit the start and end, I found quite a few things presenters should not do if they want a good talk recording. We're also working on changes playing with AI to make all the content of our videos easier for you to consume. For now though, here are some resources to keep you occupied until we're there… 

A few weeks ago we had Marco Podien from Algorand Foundation on our Live Show and he added even more value by giving an in-depth presentation explaining Real-World problems that you can solve with Blockchain. 

What's happening in AI

• OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature to stop queries getting indexed by search engines
• Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
• Our first outage from LLM-written code
• Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
• Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code

Security and Privacy

• Cloudflare accuses Perplexity evade website no-crawl directives and they answer.
• A poisoned Calendar Invite was able to take over a Smart Home
• Google's "Big Sleep" found 20 vulnerabilities in Open Source tools
• Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025: The AI Oversight
• How we Rooted Copilot

Software Development

• A Full Code Agent in 200 Lines
• CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
• The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
• 30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web
• One simple trick to make your screenshots 80% smaller

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• JSPad
• Cap - a captcha alternative
• Visual CSS - Collaborate with Intelligence
• Secretlint - a linting tool to prevent committing credentials.
• Convert words to time - show reading time estimations

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Caught in the Game: History and Evolution of Web Browser Gaming
• Cloudgazing - paint on images of clouds
• Whittle - remove letters from words to create new words

• Live coding sucks
• Vibe code is legacy code
• How an ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ Brought the First Big Bust to AI Boom
• Full-breadth Developers will have a safe job
• The majority of language migrations are driven by hype

Companies to check:

• Fullstack Engineer at Sunhat
• Android Developer at Redcare Pharmacy
• Senior-Produktmanager*in at Bonial International
• OpenStack Cloud Engineer at Hubert Burda Media
• Fullstack Engineer - Go & Vue - Cloud Native at Schwarz IT KG

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