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! 

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Issue  205: AI vs. OSS, hidden ChatGPT features, Linux in a PDF

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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.

Don’t Insert Crazy! On cURL and AI Slop - Daniel Stenberg
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

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