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The Seven Deadly Sins of Coding With AI

A few years ago, people said AI would soon write most of the code. They were almost right. AI did not replace the old workload. It multiplied it. We now build more features, generate more code and create more things to review than ever. Now we have a new problem. AI can write code much faster than we can properly review it. It can also make inexperienced developers feel more capable than they really are. The code looks clean, confident and professional, even when the logic is wrong. Here are the seven deadly sins of coding with AI. Do not let an agent freely read your .env files, SSH keys, API keys, database passwords, customer data or private documents. Most coding agents let you exclude specific files or folders from their workspace. Use that feature for anything sensitive. Once the agent can see a secret, it may end up in logs, terminal output, generated files, commits or tool calls. Putting everything in one file and telling the agent not to open it is not security. Keep secrets outside its workspace where possible. Use limited, short-lived credentials and expose them only when needed. If an agent may have seen a key, rotate it. A wallet private key is the wallet. Treat it that way. MCP tools are useful because they let agents interact with databases, files and external services. The problem starts when one generic tool can do everything. A PostgreSQL or MySQL MCP may be able to read, change or delete your entire database. Most tasks do not need that much access. Build small MCP tools for specific jobs instead. Expose only the operations the agent actually needs, with clear inputs and strict limits. A tool such as findCustomerByEmail is far safer than giving the agent unrestricted SQL access. Creating a basic MCP server is easier than it sounds. In many cases, a few narrowly defined tools are enough. Do not give an unpredictable agent a universal remote control and hope it presses the right button. Prompt injection does not only come from the user. It can hide i

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NestJS + LangChain: Build an AI Agent in 5 Minutes

To add an AI agent to a NestJS app, register it as a module with nestjs-langchain, inject it like any provider, and call run(). This tutorial goes from nest new to a working POST /ask endpoint in about 30 lines of TypeScript. Create the app, then install the library and a model provider: npx @nestjs/cli new my-app --package-manager npm cd my-app npm install nestjs-langchain @langchain/openai @langchain/openai is the provider: @langchain/anthropic, @langchain/ollama, @langchain/mistralai or any other LangChain chat integration works the same way. The provider reads its key from the environment: export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... Import LangChainModule in app.module.ts: import { Module } from '@nestjs/common'; import { LangChainModule } from 'nestjs-langchain'; import { AppController } from './app.controller.js'; import { AppService } from './app.service.js'; import { AskController } from './ask.controller.js'; @Module({ imports: [ LangChainModule.register({ // `provider:model`; the provider reads OPENAI_API_KEY. model: { model: 'openai:gpt-5-mini' }, systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant. Answer in one paragraph.', }), ], controllers: [AppController, AskController], providers: [AppService], }) export class AppModule {} ts Inject Agent like any provider, in a new ask.controller.ts: import { Body, Controller, Post } from '@nestjs/common'; import { Agent } from 'nestjs-langchain'; @Controller('ask') export class AskController { constructor(private readonly agent: Agent) {} @Post() async ask(@Body('question') question: string): Promise { const { output } = await this.agent.run(question); return output; } } Besides output, the answer, run() returns the tools the model called, the tokens it used and how long the run took. npm run start:dev curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/ask \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"question": "What is dependency injection?"}' The response is the model's answer, as plain text. An agent becomes useful when it can act on your app. With

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Guardrails for AI-written code: what 1,156 merged PRs taught a non-developer

I don't write code. Between February and October 2026, Claude Code wrote the code for my product, SiteNeuro, and I reviewed it: 3,215 commits and 1,156 merged pull requests over 175 working days. The platform has been live for two months and has built more than 1,000 websites. Developers reviewing AI output have an advantage I didn't have: you can read the diff. But the failure modes I hit are the same ones you'll hit on any AI-assisted project that outgrows a single chat. Here are the guardrails that fixed them, with the templates. Pure chat-driven building ("vibe coding") breaks in a predictable way once a project gets big: Decisions live in the chat, and the chat forgets. A short file of non-negotiables that the agent reads at the start of every session (Claude Code loads a project memory file automatically). Mine is grouped by concern. A shortened version: Every screen is designed for a phone first. We never store card numbers. AI spending is limited per day, per month and per customer. No feature is built without a spec. When something changes, the spec changes first. Before any code: a spec written from the user's side. The skeleton: Summary · what it is and why it matters If you want tooling for this, GitHub's open-source Spec Kit gives you the constitution → specify → plan → tasks → implement flow as commands inside your AI tool. Plans get cut into tasks small enough to verify in minutes, and each meaningful change ships as a pull request with CI. As a non-developer, my review checklist was: Does the change match the spec? This is the compounding part. When something broke, the workflow was: Ask for causes before fixes. Example, as a pattern: a small bug looped and burned a day's AI budget. The lasting fix wasn't the loop. It was a spending limit on every AI call, plus a test that fails if anyone breaks it. Plan before you build (every task, idea or bug): Hand off a heavy session (long sessions degrade; fresh ones with a good handoff don't): What I did: … Wh

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PhishBrief AI: Private, Local-First Phishing Analysis with Open-Weight AI

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸 This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Phishing emails often use urgency, impersonation, suspicious links, and requests for sensitive information to trick people. Many small teams lack dedicated security staff or enterprise-grade email security tools. PhishBrief AI aims to make initial phishing analysis more accessible by helping users examine suspicious content, understand potential warning signs, and receive actionable security recommendations. The project explores a privacy-conscious approach: running an open-weight AI model locally instead of requiring every message to be sent to a hosted AI API. Who could benefit? Small businesses without a dedicated security operations team Freelancers and independent professionals Students learning email security and phishing detection IT support teams that need an accessible first-pass analysis tool The long-term side-hustle opportunity is a lightweight security assistant for small teams that need understandable phishing triage without the cost or complexity of a full enterprise security platform. Demo https://www.loom.com/share/ca8e3321c0274ec49f58d0d423f2813b The demo shows the application running locally and demonstrates its phishing-analysis workflow. Code https://github.com/SM01010011/PhishBrief_AI Explore the source code, setup instructions, and project implementation in the repository. How I Built It *Core technologies Python — application logic and analysis workflow Streamlit — interactive user interface Ollama — local model runtime Granite 3.2 Vision — the configured open-weight model used for local inference The development setup also includes Gemma 3 1B as another locally available model. The workflow is designed around analyzing user-provided suspicious content, identifying potential phishing indicators, explaining the associated risks, and presenting recommendations in a more und

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Z.ai lanza GLM Legal, un modelo de IA entrenado para derecho

Un abogado de Nueva York fue sancionado en 2023 por presentar ante un tribunal seis casos que ChatGPT había inventado por completo: citas con nombres de jueces reales y números de expediente que jamás existieron. Esa historia, repetida ya en distintos países, es el fantasma que persigue a cualquier modelo de lenguaje que quiera trabajar con textos legales. Z.ai, la empresa china detrás de la familia de modelos GLM, presentó GLM Legal, una versión de su tecnología pensada específicamente para reducir ese riesgo en tareas jurídicas. GLM Legal es el modelo de Z.ai adaptado para redactar y revisar documentos jurídicos con menos alucinaciones de citas.- La empresa china, antes llamada Zhipu AI, construye el sistema sobre su familia de modelos GLM de pesos abiertos.- El mercado legal ya tiene rivales establecidos como Harvey y CoCounsel, respaldados por OpenAI y Thomson Reuters.- Casos reales de abogados sancionados por citar jurisprudencia inventada por IA motivan este tipo de producto.- Z.ai no publicó cifras de precisión verificables de forma independiente al momento de este artículo. GLM Legal es la variante de los modelos GLM de Z.ai orientada a profesionales del derecho: redacción de contratos, resúmenes de expedientes y consultas sobre normativa. La compañía la presenta como una capa adicional de verificación de citas sobre su modelo base, pensada para abogados y despachos que necesitan respuestas trazables a una fuente. Z.ai es el nombre comercial que adoptó Zhipu AI, laboratorio surgido de Tsinghua University y uno de los grupos chinos más activos en modelos de pesos abiertos, junto a DeepSeek, Alibaba y Moonshot AI. La familia GLM (General Language Model) es su línea insignia, y sus versiones recientes compiten de cerca con los modelos occidentales en benchmarks públicos. Llevar esa base a un producto vertical como el derecho es un movimiento habitual en la industria: cualquier modelo generalista rinde peor en dominios donde una respuesta incorrecta tiene consec

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Best Databricks AI Data Preparation Tools: Mosaic AI Vector Search & Data Quality Solutions Compared

Every Databricks team I've worked with recently has run into the same problem. They want to ship RAG apps, agents, or semantic search on top of their lakehouse, and they assume the hard part is the vector database or the embedding model. It isn't. The hard part is making sure the data feeding those systems is governed, well-defined, and actually means what everyone thinks it means. That's why I spent a few weeks digging into the tools that sit around Mosaic AI Vector Search. Some of them prepare documents. Some monitor quality. Some index vectors. And one of them, in my opinion, does the quieter but more important work of making your schemas AI-ready in the first place. Below is my shortlist of five tools worth knowing if you're building AI workloads on Databricks, with honest notes on where each one fits. I looked at native Databricks integration first, then considered how each tool actually improves AI output quality, how predictable the pricing is, and whether the vendor has real enterprise customers running the product at scale. I also paid attention to the gaps. A great vector index doesn't help you if the underlying metrics are defined three different ways, and a document parser doesn't help you if nobody governs the resulting tables. The governed foundation that makes your Databricks lakehouse AI-ready before the first vector ever gets indexed. When I started testing AI data preparation workflows on Databricks, I kept hitting the same wall. Mosaic AI Vector Search can retrieve content by similarity, but similar isn't the same as correct, especially when the same metric is defined three different ways across your warehouse. That's the gap SqlDBM fills, and it's why it sits at the top of this list. SqlDBM is a cloud-native, code-free data modeling platform that plugs directly into Databricks Unity Catalog and Hive Metastore. You can reverse- and forward-engineer Delta Lake objects, track column-level lineage, and visually govern every schema your AI pipelines d

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