WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

184: Happy Agents, Vibe Hacking & you don't need JavaScript!

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 8-10/7/26 - get 15% off using code devdigest

Hello fellow developer, this time we feature the first main stage video of the WeAreDeveloper World Congress, and you can now see them all on our web site! Furthermore, we dare you to play "email address or not", learn about how Lovable enables hackers and why you might not need JavaScript at all! 

Back at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress we had Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, kick things of with a talk that paints an interesting futiure of people and AI working together. If you missed it, check it out and learn about  Agents for the sake of happiness!

What's happening in AI

• The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps
• AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, but a ‘dark pattern’
• Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity
• Claude Code AI best practices
• Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work

Security and Privacy

• AgentHopper: An AI Virus
• ‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat
• Why Relying on LLMs for Code Can Be a Security Nightmare
• SpyVPN: The Google-Featured VPN That Secretly Captures Your Screen
• Invisible prompt in Google allows ChatGPT to access Drive

Software Development

• You no longer need JavaScript
• Cognitive Load is what matters
• Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes
• How to Slow Down a Program? And Why it Can Be Useful.
• CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Generate AI Images with LoRAs
• Intl.DateTimeFormat playground
• Compare PNG images with human color perception
• Sleek, modular open source JavaScript file uploader
• Animate svgs

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Pong Clock
• Email is Easy
• Word slide

• Senior Devs ship 2.5x more AI code
• Open Source is one person
• Google cuts 35% small team managers
• Career Frameworks
• We're developers, not operators

Companies to check:

• Senior Systems/DevOps Developer at Bonial International
• Senior Softwareentwickler Java at AOK Systems
• Product Owner Betrieb – Cloud & SaaS at PROSOZ Herten
• Senior Data Engineer at SD Worx
• Senior Netzwerkadministrator at Dirk Rossmann

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