Here's a look inside last week's Dev Digest... 🦩 Why AI companies are obsessed with Pelicans 🤖 Which AI to use to do different tasks 🎯 AI users are 3x less accurate but twice as confident 🌐 HTML is unsafe according to Reddit 💀 Hacked by a Take-Home interview

Missed Friday's Dev Digest? Here's a look inside... 🎨 LLMs Fail at Painting the Mona Lisa 🌐 Which AI Reads Your Site? 🔥 Burning Tokens Researching How to Save Tokens 🛡️ Secure Sandboxes for Agents ♿ Building Accessibility into Canvas Products 📦 Framework Benchmarks and Bundle Sizes

Here's some highlights you might have missed from last week's Dev Digest... 🎓 A Free Claude Code Course 🎭 Claude's Multiple Personalities 💰 Cutting Token Use by 94% 🌐 Why AI Browsers Are a Bad Idea 🎮 WebGL Without a GPU 💳 Disposable Credit Cards and Linux for Agents 🚗 Grand Theft Auto in JavaScript

How would you build a performant drag-and-drop application? Elena Torro explains how her team keep Penpot fast by being careful with what they render and when. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Julia Kordick and her colleagues at Microsoft have been migrating a large COBOL codebase to a modern stack. Julia says enterprise organisations will have no choice but to do the same. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) says the entire team at GitHub use GitHub, and it's important for them to understand how it works even if they don't work in engineering.

Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) says that GitHub has been a remote company for 15 years because it benefits everybody involved. Do you work remotely?

GitHub's Mona the Octocat is a personification of everybody in the software engineering community. Watch this session in full, recorded live at the Merge, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91... 🎟️ Get your tickets now for World Congress 2026 over at worldcongress.dev

Oscar Stories and IntelliPaper co-founder Dima Rubanov says it doesn't matter which programming language you use as it won't be the reason your project succeeds (or fails). 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Social media CEO's recently called for intellectual property laws to be discarded. We spoke to Matthias Neumayer, a tech CEO who used to work in law, about what a world without IP laws would look like. Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Did you know that strings can be used like arrays? Chris Heilmann says that it’s these overlooked quirks that can be used by bad actors. 🗞️ Subscribe to the Dev Digest at wearedevelopers.com/devdigest

Robby Russell says open source can show you the way into development, but the ecosystem is a lot better developers today than it was. We're lucky to have so many amazing open source projects out there that developers can learn from 👏

Saron Yitbarek says the beauty of coding is that you can make something out of nothing. Do you see programming as a creative pursuit? 🤔 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Are you suspicious when your code works the first time? Our VP of DevRel says yes, because it NEVER works the first time. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Miss last week's Dev Digest? Here's a few headlines... 🧹 Cleaning up after rockstar developers 🤖 AI hasn’t yet and won’t replace developers 🦠 Malicious code in a job offer ✋ Google adding hand gesture verification 🖱️ SVG and PDF can both be interactive 🌐 Check out Standard.site

Principal Developer Advocate at @AWS Gunnar Grosch says the AI wave isn't anything new, it's just another tool that changes how we write code, and even in the age of AI, we need developers. Watch Gunnar's appearance on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Marius Obert from Twilio shows how easy it is to build a custom AI phone agent in under 30mins, and even tested it with a live call. Very impressive 👏 Have you used the @Twilio APIs? Watch Marius' tech talk over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Marius Obert shows how easy it is to create an AI-powered phone agent using Twilio and OpenAI, and what better way to test it than see if it can top Chris' dad jokes? Watch Marius' tech talk over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Raymond Camden says he still loves the web today for the same reason as he did when he first started to write code. Anyone can have a presence online, and we shouldn't take that for granted. Watch Raymond Camden's appearance on our weekly LIVE stream at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Daniel Siegl says that AI can make it easier to improve your software, but we should not forget about basics like test data. Watch Daniel Siegl from Syntevo on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Bozidar Spirovski says an organisation he consulted for was passing passwords around in a YAML file, and most organisations have poor practices when it comes to security. As a developer, have you experienced anything similar?

Lutz Hühnken says that it can be irritating hearing developers refer to event-driven microservices simply because they use Kafka, when it's a little more nuanced than that. What annoys you in the world of tech? Watch Lutz on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/18...

Oliver Sturm says that AI is far from perfect, but even with its imperfections its often better to have than not. Do you trust AI? 🤔 Watch Oliver on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/18...

Lilia Gargouri says every developer is responsible for code quality, not just the QA team. Do you agree? 🤔 Watch Lilia on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/18...

A fool with a tool is still a fool, says Lilia Gargouri. AI is great for writing more code, but if we don't focus on quality we're open to issues and not necessarily better off. Watch Lilia on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/18...

We asked Josip Stuhli what annoys him the most in tech... but we didn't see this one coming. Watch Josip on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/18...

The only real way to learn about software architecture is to build a large-scale application, and learn through experience. What's the largest project you've ever worked on? 🤔 Watch Oliver on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/18...

Lilia Gargouri says she's excited for three days of exchanging ideas, knowledge, a shared love of building software and more at this year's WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe. Watch Lilia on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/18...

On our Wednesday LIVE show, we talk about the latest goings on from the world of tech... and occasionally tell a bad (Dad?) joke, too. Watch Graham's appearance on WeAreDevelopers LIVE show at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Tejas Kumar (@TejasKumar_) says that we should not trust LLM-generated code, and should be vigilant. Do you agree? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live