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  • Cloud Blog: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/five-best-practices-for-using-ai-coding-assistants/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants Feedly Summary: Does owning a kitchen knife mean you know how to effectively dice onions or julienne carrots? Of course not. Access to a tool doesn’t guarantee profenciency. To get the results you’re looking for, you need to learn the…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: The Rise and Fall of Vibe Coding

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibe-coding/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: The Rise and Fall of Vibe Coding Feedly Summary: We’re living through the “Wild West” era of AI-powered software development. Anyone can build custom solutions in minutes rather than months. This creative explosion heads toward a reckoning. Hidden maintenance costs of thousands of “vibe-coded” micro-apps will collide with…

  • The Register: Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/amazon_quietly_fixed_q_developer_flaws/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE Feedly Summary: Move along, nothing to see here Amazon has quietly fixed a couple of security issues in its coding agent: Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension. Attackers could use these vulns to…

  • Embrace The Red: Amazon Q Developer: Remote Code Execution with Prompt Injection

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amazon-q-developer-remote-code-execution/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Amazon Q Developer: Remote Code Execution with Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q) is a popular coding agent, with over 1 million downloads. The extension is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection, and in this post we discuss a vulnerability that…

  • Slashdot: Stack Overflow Data Reveals the Hidden Productivity Tax of ‘Almost Right’ AI Code

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/1314207/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Stack Overflow Data Reveals the Hidden Productivity Tax of ‘Almost Right’ AI Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** A recent Stack Overflow survey reveals that while AI coding tools are widely adopted by developers, trust in their accuracy is sharply declining. Despite a high usage rate,…

  • The Register: Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/coders_are_using_ai_tools/ Source: The Register Title: Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions Feedly Summary: Vibe coding is right out, say most respondents in Stack Overflow survey According to a new survey of worldwide software developers released on Tuesday, nearly all respondents are incorporating AI tools into their coding practices…

  • Slashdot: Google Gemini Deletes User’s Files, Then Just Admits ‘I Have Failed You Completely and Catastrophically’

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/26/0642239/google-gemini-deletes-users-files-then-just-admits-i-have-failed-you-completely-and-catastrophically?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Gemini Deletes User’s Files, Then Just Admits ‘I Have Failed You Completely and Catastrophically’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The reported incident involving Google Gemini’s coding agent highlights significant concerns about the reliability and safety of AI-driven coding tools, particularly in terms of data management…