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Five Quick Ways to Contain Them **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 22, 2026 Do you trust your agents? Most of us use coding agents every day now. Give one a vague request, walk away, and come back to a pile of mostly working software. It’s brilliant, right up until you remember you’ve handed a probabilistic machine access to your files, credentials and network. In this w... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/787-do-you-trust-your-agents-five-quick-ways-to-contain-them) ## The Roundup: India, ZTA and Double Fake or News **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 17, 2026 It’s been another busy week at WeAreDevelopers, with Kelsey Hightower headlining the Dev Digest, a fantastic LIVE show getting back to basics, two rounds of Fake or News, and a packed week of Magazine content. Here’s everything you might have missed. 🔴 LIVE and Fake or News: Luise Freese and Elef... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/786-the-roundup-india-zta-and-double-fake-or-news) ## Common Challenges When Building Gantt Charts for Enterprise Web Applications **By:** Eugene Panchenko, Chris Heilmann **Published:** October 16, 2026 This is a guest article by Eugene Panchenko , content writer at DHTMLX . A Gantt chart may look like a relatively straightforward combination of tasks, dependencies, and milestones across a timeline. Things get much more complicated when it becomes the core planning interface of an enterprise web... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/782-common-challenges-when-building-gantt-charts-for-enterprise-web-applications) ## A Claude Skill to Make Branded Videos with HTML **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 15, 2026 Here in Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers, we love to build projects and play with code (we are developers, after all) but so often we move between dev work and making videos, writing articles, creating graphics or animations, to make all kinds assets, assets that can be time-consuming to pr... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/784-a-claude-skill-to-make-branded-videos-with-html) ## Tech Events in Bangalore 2026: 6 Conferences to Attend Before the Year Ends **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 14, 2026 Bangalore (Bengaluru) has six tech events worth attending between late October and mid-December 2026. They range from the first Black Hat India and a cluster of developer community conferences to the first WeAreDevelopers Conference India. Each entry says who the event suits, so you can skip what... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/785-tech-events-in-bangalore-2026-6-conferences-to-attend-before-the-year-ends) ## Infer Once, Run Everywhere: Zero-Token Architecture **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 13, 2026 “You are all having way too much fun burning way too many tokens”. Kelsey Hightower kicked off his talk at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America by calling out the developers in attendance for something so many of us are guilty of, even if we don’t realise it. What if, before we need... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/783-infer-once-run-everywhere-zero-token-architecture) ## Dev Digest 241: Chonky Kolibris, No More Iron Men and Not Everyone Can Code **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 12, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 241 . 🤖 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 n... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/781-dev-digest-241-chonky-kolibris-no-more-iron-men-and-not-everyone-can-code) ## The Roundup: Watch Hundreds of Hours From San Jose and Join Us in India **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 9, 2026 It’s been another busy week at WeAreDevelopers, with hundred of hours of sessions from the World Congress North America now ready to watch, a double-shot of Coffee with Developers with two episodes from San Fran, and as always, some wild headlines on this week’s Fake or News. Here’s what you may ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/779-the-roundup-watch-hundreds-of-hours-from-san-jose-and-join-us-in-india) ## Play DOOM with Developers While Claude Code Works **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 9, 2026 Claude Code just got mods , and within a day of launch, the one everyone was talking about let you play multiplayer Doom while you wait for your agent to finish. What are Claude Code mods? Anthropic shipped mods in Claude Code 2.1.287 on October 1st, with mods being plugins that can change how Cl... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/780-play-doom-with-developers-while-claude-code-works) ## Dev Digest 240: More CSS = Performance++, What are LLMs Worth & Logos Brighter Than #FFF **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** October 5, 2026 🤖 Which LLM is worth it 🛡️ How to engineer safer agents 📋 Anthropic’s misuse report, condensed to 117 findings 📦 Ship cleaner packages as an npm subfolder ⚡ Improving site performance by shipping more CSS 📄 Beautiful PDFs, emails and OG images made simple with shadCDN ✨ Make your logo brighter th... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/778-dev-digest-240-more-css-performance-what-are-llms-worth-logos-brighter-than-fff) ## I Gave a Video Editor More Autonomy Than a Trading Bot. On Purpose. **By:** Igor Khokhriakov, Chris Heilmann **Published:** October 2, 2026 This is a guest post by Igor Khokhriakov. If you asked me which of two systems should get more AI autonomy, an algorithmic trading platform or a hobby video editor, the obvious answer would probably be the trading platform. Mine is designed the other way around. The trading system can take an ide... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/773-i-gave-a-video-editor-more-autonomy-than-a-trading-bot-on-purpose) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=3)