WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 182: GPT5 prompts, MCP vulnerabilities, Code traps to avoid!

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Hello fellow developer, it is one thing when you wonder why AI bots give you weird and disconcerting answers. It is another when analysing the system prompts explains that the bot should act like a conspiracy theorist or unhinged comedian. We live in strange times. We try to make AI work for end users - enticing them to interact - and professionals to use it to be more effective. Maybe not everything needs AI - or one size does not fit all? 

Karl Groves is an accessibility expert who has been around for a long time, witnessing tech trends come and go. Now things seem to be different and in this session that was part of the the WeAreDevelopers AI and Accessibility Day he explained why AI is the future of accessibility!

What's happening in AI

• ‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed
• Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
• GPT-5 prompting guide
• Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code
• AI is a Junior Dev and needs a Lead

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Security and Privacy

• MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know and the State of MCP Security
• Trojans Embedded in .svg Files
• Grok's "Share" button made 100k+ Grok Chatbot Conversations publicly searchable
• The Great SSL Certificate Panic
• How We Exploited CodeRabbit: PR to RCE and Write Access on 1M Repositories

Software Development

• A reference manual for people who design and build software
• Developer traps in various languages
• A Friendly Introduction to SVG
• Why semantic HTML still matters
• What Learning React Won't Teach You: Image Formats

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Accessibility Support - will your code work with assistive technologies?
• vendetect - detect vendored and copy/pasted code between repositories.
• StaticSearch - a simple search engine you can add to any static website.
• showify - stringifying any JavaScript value into a human-readable format.
• ForesightJS - predict user intent to prefetch content before it's needed.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Whimsy -  a game engine and a fantasy console for making interactive stories 
• Stop Watching Garbage - curated great movies and shows to watch
• More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

• New trend: extreme hours at AI startups
• GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire
• Computer Science Graduates Face Worst Job Market in Decades
• AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview
• How the App Store Helped Kill My Startup,and Why That Should Matter to You

Companies to check:

• Senior Software Developer with AI Focus at Dynatrace
• Data & Insights Specialist at ÖBB-Konzern
• Spring Developer at Deichmann SE
• Team Lead - API and Universal Data Exchange Platform at Dennemeyer Group
• Lead/Senior Backend Engineer at Almedia

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