How I stopped a massive WordPress spam attack with 4,700 lines of code in two days - thanks to Codex and Claude

Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.
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I thought I was productive in VS Code until agentic coding showed me what I was missing

I have spent a decade convincing myself that incremental IDE upgrades like a faster syntax highlighter, smoother git integration, or even standard AI autocomplete were massive leaps forward. The ...
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VS Code stops trusting your code by default

VS Code 1.26 prevents automatic code execution for new project folders, lets users configure whether code can be executed ...
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Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...