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#  Dev Digest 241: Chonky Kolibris, No More Iron Men and Not Everyone Can Code

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

**Published:** October 12, 2026

## Inside last week’s [Dev Digest 241](https://newsletter.wearedevelopers.com/241).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vyD8ieN6YG4

🤖 AI needs fewer Iron Men and more Smart Hulks  
🧠 Two new European open-weight models: Mistral’s 1T “Le Chonk” and Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri  
🕵️ The sleuths who expose when AI goes rogue  
🛡️ A peek into Reddit’s anti-spam internals  
📦 Node.js built-ins that replaced npm packages  
💰 How Booking cut Node.js costs by 38% with Watt  
⚡ Size Limit is a performance budget tool for JavaScript  
🔌 The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers  
💻 Not everyone can code

### Featured Video

Last Friday we had a double-header of content recorded live from Corgi Cafe in San Francisco, with Ali Khader (CEO of SYNK) [telling us how a Reddit comment led to him building a startup](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2153-making-events-more-accessible-with-ai-ali-khader) to make events more accessible with AI, and Arnav Gupta (Founder of Prismor.dev), helping developers understand [how to stop agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2152-how-to-stop-your-agents-from-going-rogue-arnav-gupta) going rogue.

Alternatively, you can listen on [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-with-developers/id1779243591) or on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6bcMqLcQJXJTZjcdCHLcno).

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