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# Dev Digest 233: Strip AI Watermarks, Hacked Homelabs & Designing with Code

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

**Published:** August 17, 2026

## Inside last week’s [Dev Digest 233](https://newsletter.wearedevelopers.com/233).

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

🦩 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  
⚡ Why you should know about SIMD  
🔐 A secret vault and a browser CLI for AI agents  
🦊 Funny animals, Bond on a map, and LLM clichés

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