Dev Digest 176: Expensive Agents, Taking Over VSCode and Safer Vibe Coding

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 176.

In case you missed the Dev Digest on Friday, here’s a few highlights…

🌳 Sustainability of software in the age of AI
🔒 What Web App Sec is about
🤖 What can agents actually do?
🍾 Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck
⚠️ Exploiting IDE Extensions is Easy
🙌 Microsoft open-sources VS Code Copilot Chat extension on GitHub
⚒️ Every tool you need to work with URL conversions in one place
🎵 The Janet Jackson song that is a CVE
👩‍💼 Most managers now rely on AI for hiring and firing.

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