Reinventing Pull Requests, phone LLMs & CSS units explained

WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 244: Reinventing Pull Requests, LLM on your phone & CSS units explained

25-26/11/2026: WeAreDevelopers Conference India

14-16/07/2027: WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe

Hello fellow developer, spooky season is upon us, but rather than dwelling on the scary things happening, let's take a look at what's next for agentic development, how to set up a harness for your company, learn how Codex happened and what all those different CSS units mean. We're still getting ready to rock India with our Conference next month, and record Coffee with Developer episodes and more to get you in the mood.

Having just announced The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration, effectively re-inventing the pull request, let's check out the conversation Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Entire and Matan Grinberg, CEO of Factory had at our North America event. The future of engineering isn't writing syntax, but managing fleets of autonomous AI agents. Discover how to transition from legacy workflows to building self-improving software factories.

What's happening in AI

• The five components of building a "company harness"
• Claude Code skills for teams: what to move out of CLAUDE.md
• How Apple Fits an LLM on Your iPhone
• 38 things we've learned about building AI products
• Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization

Security and Privacy

• How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
• Managing Agentic Security at Scale
• Who do you trust when you trust a certificate? The eMudhra incident explained
• What took the Internet offline in Q3 2026
• How abliterated models can get you pwned

Software Development

• Shipping 103,802 Dots in 82 KB
• Less Is More: From 1M Lines of Firmware to 300 of Assembly
• How Netflix Keeps Large GPU Jobs Running
• Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene
• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Hallmark is an anti-AI-slop design skill
• Snitch is a real-time network traffic visualizer
• Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
• Handwriting animation for any font
• Every CSS unit, explained.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• 30 years of Crypto
• A Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Suspected North Korean IT Workers
• Divergence: formatting a script can turn it into a different program

Career and Culture:

• How Codex Happened
• Hunger Beats Tenure: Advice for Junior Engineers
• AI Promised Less Work. I Have Never Worked More
• Your Job Can Survive AI. Your Salary Might Not
• Are fixed user flows becoming obsolete?

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