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# Dev Digest 164: AI Agents, AI Blindspots and MCP security problems

**By:** [Daniel Cranney](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@daniel-cranney)

**Published:** April 22, 2025

## Inside last week’s [Dev Digest 164](https://newsletter.wearedevelopers.com/164).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wJIs4lnLY0A

📈 State of AI in charts  
🕵️‍♂️ What are AI Agents?  
🤖 AI blindspots  
🙅‍♂️ Everything wrong with MCP  
⚠️ Threat modelling GitHub  
🤩 Non LLM software trends to be excited about  
💻 Caching explained  
🐕‍🦺 Keeping Amazon Web Services (AWS) dependencies on a leash  
🟦 Tired of TypeScript? Why not go PostScript?

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