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3 AI coding agent footguns, and the one command that catches each

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AI coding agents are fast, and sometimes they take shortcuts you won't notice until it hurts. Here are three I made short videos about this week. Each one comes with a command you can run today. 1. Slopsquatting: your agent installs a package that doesn't exist LLMs sometimes suggest package names…

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  1. 2026-10-23 15:21 · DEV Community — AI
    3 AI coding agent footguns, and the one command that catches each

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