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

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

**Published:** July 14, 2025

## Inside last week’s [Dev Digest 176](https://newsletter.wearedevelopers.com/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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