Friday Links: AI engineers, prompt injection, and job market
13 Mar 2026 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 5 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. We all might become AI engineers (6min), but we still need to know what to build and how it should work. AI needs hands on the wheel.
#2. AI speeds up coding, but there are plenty of coding activities that aren’t typing (2min). There’s still work for humans.
#3. Last week, another npm package was infected. The interesting part? Someone stole the npm token by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue (10min). SQL injection isn’t the #1 vulnerability anymore.
#4. If you’re a C# coder using Dapper, be aware of data type conversions that might be slowing down your queries (8min).
#5. If you’ve had a hard time finding a job. You’re not alone. Hiring is as bad as during the pandemic (1min).
Last week, while migrating a legacy app, I wrote about my adventures with Entity Framework Core joining tables (5min) and with Blazor building a component for a HTML editor (4min).
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Until next Friday. Stay coding smartly!
Cesar