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title: "205: AI vs. OSS, hidden ChatGPT features, Linux in a PDF"
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AI slop in bug bounties, how to make sure Google still loves your site, a new GitHub SDK to build agents and Linux in a PDF! 

| WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest View in browser Issue  205: AI vs. OSS, hidden ChatGPT features, Linux in a PDF 26-27/05/26: WeAreDevelopers Conference India - CFP India 08-10/07/26: WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe - CFP Europe 23-25/09/2026: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America - CFP US Get 3 tickets for the price of 2: WWC26\_TEAM3 at check-out for Europe, North America Hello fellow developer, AI is tough to keep up with. Especially when it comes to names that things get. What's a skill? What's an agent and what are commands? In this edition we have a few resources to help with this confusion. We also have some hidden ChatGPT features and show you how you can run Linux inside a PDF. But first, we sat down with a person responsible for one of the most important pieces of software you all use without knowing it and why he stops asking for outside bug reports for money. Daniel Stenberg of the cURL project just announced that they are shutting down their bug bounty program, despite getting great reports and issues to fix in the past. The reason is AI slop and people flooding the project with non-existing issues. But that's just one of the issues, so check out what else is worrying for OSS in times of AI. What's happening in AI Agent Skills vs. Rules vs. Commands Ten best hidden ChatGPT features Why AI coding tools shift the real bottleneck to review MCP, Skills, and Agents Best practices for coding with agents Security and Privacy Pwning Claude Code in 8 Different Ways Supply-chain risk of agentic AI - infecting infrastructures via skill worms Keeping Secrets Out of Logs Weaponizing Calendar Invites: A Semantic Attack on Google Gemini Prompt Injection Bugs Found in Official Anthropic Git MCP Server Software Development CSS Web Components for marketing sites CSS in 2026: The new features reshaping frontend development The challenges of soft delete The Git Command That Could Have Saved You Hours Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know Tips, Tricks and Tools Build an agent into any app with the GitHub Copilot SDK The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem Better SVG - a SVG editor inside VS Code whenwords: An Open Source Library Without Code Make it very easy to develop cross-browser extensions Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator Over 100 fake citations slip through peer review at top AI conference ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering Career and Culture: Insights from 100 site speed reviews in 2025 Fix Your robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google Vibe Coding Kills Open Source Supporting Open Source in 2026: Why It Matters More Than Ever Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change? Companies to check: Innovation Developer at SD Worx Head of Software Development at ZEISS Group Data Scientist – Academic Track at Almedia Senior AI Solutions Engineer (Germany) at Wilken Spring Developer at Deichmann SE Patronus Group Hubert Burda Media msg Bitpanda Technoly GmbH More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria WeAreDevelopers, Schottenfeldgasse 23, Vienna, Vienna 1070, Austria Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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