WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 193: Vibe coding honeymoon, NaN and the end of interviews

Hello fellow developer, November is here and it is time to mark your calendars as we're planning a virtual Performance & AI Day on the 27th. Right now we're looking to find the right speakers and will keep you updated. Furthermore, ticket sales for the North America event will go live next week. And we are still looking for guest writers! 

For this edition of the Dev Digest we looked at common vulnerabilities of vibe coded apps, how to protect your GitHub identity and give you a LinkedIn Wisdom generator. 

To get started and to celebrate Doom running on an orbiting European Space Agency satellite, let's take a look at the fireside chat with gaming legends John Romero, Warren Spector and the very unskilled gamer Chris Heilmann. Game on!

What's happening in AI

• AI scrapers request commented out scripts
• Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?
• The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs
• Vibe Coding, Six Months Later: The Honeymoon’s Over
• GenAI Image Showdown

Security and Privacy

• How we discovered over 2k high-impact vulnerabilities in vibe-coded apps
• Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure
• Security Risks of LLM Frameworks with Case Studies
• An unpatched Chrome security hole abusing document,title
• Anyone Can Commit Code as You on GitHub (Here's How to Stop Them)  

Software Development

• Why NaN !== NaN in JavaScript (and the IEEE 754 story behind it) 
• Directives and the Platform Boundary
• Free software scares normal people
• Your URL Is Your State
• Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Pipelex is the open standard for repeatable AI workflows.
• MCP vulnerability Scanner
• A heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
• Control and inspect a live Chrome browser via a coding agent
• The open-source alternative to Google Drive.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• LinkedIn Wisdom Generator
• How would aliens hear our music?
• AI world clocks

• The first ever banner ad: why did it work so well?
• How Design Teams Are Reacting to 10x Developer Productivity from AI
• Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies
• AI Broke Interviews
• A Brief History of Domains

Companies to check:

• SAP SuccessFactors Consultant at Deichmann SE
• Senior AI Software Developer & Mentor at Dynatrace
• Part Time Junior Python Backend / GenAI Support Intern at Eltemate
• Senior Softwareentwickler at PROSOZ Herten
• Senior Fullstack Engineer – Angular/.Net at Apaleo

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