I Built an AI-Powered .env Manager for VS Code — Here's What I Learned

Managing.en files is one of those things that sounds simple until you're on a team of 5, juggling 4 environments, and someone accidentally commits a Stripe secret key to GitHub at 2am. I built DotEnvy - a VS Code extension that handles environment switching, secret detection, and encrypted backups. v1.6.0 just shipped and it's the most technically interesting release yet. Let me walk you through what's inside.