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Designing tools that AI can actually use
Dev.to · Wojciech Wentland 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Designing tools that AI can actually use
Here's a tool definition I see all the time: @tool def get_data(id: str): """Gets data.""" ...
Java & AI: What Developers Need to Know
Dev.to · Machine coding Master 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Java & AI: What Developers Need to Know
Stop Wasting Hours on Flaky Integration Tests: Orchestrate Claude Code CLI with Maven and...
GitHub Copilot agents changed the build-or-buy decision for AI coding workflows
Dev.to · Shruti Saraswat 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
GitHub Copilot agents changed the build-or-buy decision for AI coding workflows
GitHub’s latest Copilot agent updates show why teams should evaluate AI coding tools by workflow fit, governance, task type, and review path, not only by model
From Vibe Coding to Production: A Step-by-Step Guide to Shipping AI-Generated Code Safely in 2026
Dev.to · Emma Schmidt 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From Vibe Coding to Production: A Step-by-Step Guide to Shipping AI-Generated Code Safely in 2026
Here's an uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit out loud: most teams can generate a working app...
How to Beat Live Coding Anxiety: A Senior Engineer's Setup
Dev.to · hi linkjob 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Beat Live Coding Anxiety: A Senior Engineer's Setup
Landing a senior remote role in today's market is a test of nerves as much as it is a test of...
I Built a PDF Chatbot — Here's What Actually Worked
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a PDF Chatbot — Here's What Actually Worked
Last month, I needed to let users upload a PDF and ask questions about it. Sounds simple, right? I...
Simon Willison's Blog 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Nano Banana 2 Lite
Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image ( gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API ), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model,
I Built an AI Pipeline to Write About Building My Products. Then I Had to Debug the Debugger.
Dev.to · Roberto Luna 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built an AI Pipeline to Write About Building My Products. Then I Had to Debug the Debugger.
I Built an AI Pipeline to Write About Building My Products. Then I Had to Debug the...
Before AI Enters the Classroom: 6 Guardrails Developers Should Build For
Dev.to · Fatima | Educators Support 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Before AI Enters the Classroom: 6 Guardrails Developers Should Build For
AI in schools is not just another SaaS rollout. A classroom tool can touch lesson planning, student...
I Got Tired of Asking "What Am I Missing?" — So I Made My AI Ask First
Dev.to · Magithar Sridhar 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Got Tired of Asking "What Am I Missing?" — So I Made My AI Ask First
In my first article, I built SKILLmama: an AI skill that finds, scores, and ranks the best library...
Astrophysics & AI with Python: Hunting for Earth 2.0 with Kepler Data and Vision Transformers
Dev.to · Programming Central 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Astrophysics & AI with Python: Hunting for Earth 2.0 with Kepler Data and Vision Transformers
The search for another Earth isn't just a job for astronomers with telescopes—it's a massive data...
Reading Anthropic's "When AI Builds Itself" Changed How I Think About AI and Software Engineering
Dev.to · Hemapriya Kanagala 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Reading Anthropic's "When AI Builds Itself" Changed How I Think About AI and Software Engineering
TL;DR Anthropic recently published When AI Builds Itself, an essay explaining how AI is...
What Is Context Engineering?
Dev.to · Trix Cyrus 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What Is Context Engineering?
Author: Trix Cyrus [🔹 Follow] TrixSec GitHub [🔹 Join] TrixSec Telegram What Is Context...
I Built an Open-Source Canny Alternative Using Spec-First AI Development. Here's the Methodology.
Dev.to · Sriram Gopalan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built an Open-Source Canny Alternative Using Spec-First AI Development. Here's the Methodology.
OpenCan v2.0.0 is out — an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Canny. AGPL-3.0, deploys with a...
How I Found the Best AI Coding Model Without Going Broke
Dev.to · bolddeck 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Found the Best AI Coding Model Without Going Broke
How I Found the Best AI Coding Model Without Going Broke So here's the thing. I just finished a...
The Scribe’s Day Off: From 1880 Archives to 2026 Vines
Dev.to · Ken W Alger 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Scribe’s Day Off: From 1880 Archives to 2026 Vines
We’ve spent the last few weeks teaching an AI to read 19th-century cursive and build a social graph....
AI Coding Agents: The Expensive Part Isn't the Agents
Dev.to · yim_rei 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Coding Agents: The Expensive Part Isn't the Agents
I ran three AI coders in parallel last week, each on its own file. Three pull requests came back in...
AI Won't Make You a Better Developer
Dev.to · John Nickell 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Won't Make You a Better Developer
The AI tool doesn't know what good looks like. It knows what common looks like. If you're thinking...
10 AI Prompts That Make Code Review Actually Useful
Dev.to · NongdyZ 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
10 AI Prompts That Make Code Review Actually Useful
"Review my code." You paste a function, and the AI replies with a tidy paragraph: "This code looks...
An Open Letter to Everyone Who Thinks “Vibe Coding” Will Replace Developers
Dev.to · Nino Ross Rodriguez 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
An Open Letter to Everyone Who Thinks “Vibe Coding” Will Replace Developers
Dear Prompt Warriors, So you typed, “Create me a bold and minimalist UI,” and BOOM! A flashy...
Why AI Hates Modern Frameworks (and Loves Web Standards)
Dev.to · Matteo Antony Mistretta 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why AI Hates Modern Frameworks (and Loves Web Standards)
There's a paradox nobody wants to say out loud: the same frameworks companies pick because they're...
After 20 Years in Software, AI Made Me Rethink What My Job Actually Is
Dev.to · Jose Orgueira 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
After 20 Years in Software, AI Made Me Rethink What My Job Actually Is
I've been building software for almost twenty years, and for most of that time I thought learning a...
100k lines of AI-ported Rust nobody can review is not an achievement
Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
100k lines of AI-ported Rust nobody can review is not an achievement
Someone ported 100k lines of TypeScript to Rust in a month using AI. They don't know Rust. People are...
Inside Twio: Optimizing Queue System for AI Workflows Instead of Scaling Compute
Dev.to · Twio_AI 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Inside Twio: Optimizing Queue System for AI Workflows Instead of Scaling Compute
A few users running our email import at once slowed it to a crawl — and more servers wouldn't have helped. Here's where the real bottleneck was hiding, and the
Learn JavaScript with Claude in 2026: build real skills, not AI dependency
Dev.to · Odilon HUGONNOT 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Learn JavaScript with Claude in 2026: build real skills, not AI dependency
How to use Claude to learn JavaScript without becoming dependent: closures, event loop, async/await — the workflow to understand before copying.
The Two Places Generative AI Shows Up When You Ship a Custom AI Application
Dev.to · Marketing wizr 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Two Places Generative AI Shows Up When You Ship a Custom AI Application
Most write-ups about "AI development" quietly conflate two very different activities. One is building...
I built a ATS resume scanner as an M.Sc. student — here's why I did it
Dev.to · Swagat S Kalita 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a ATS resume scanner as an M.Sc. student — here's why I did it
A few months ago I was applying for jobs and stumbled across Jobscan. It looked exactly what I needed...
The Spec Was Never the Good Part
Dev.to · Ashley Childress 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Spec Was Never the Good Part
Spec-driven development hands AI the wrong job. The real win is arguing the design out in chat first, then letting the spec fall out of the conversation.
How to Build a Universal AI Session Manager: Stop Losing Context Across Coding Tools
Dev.to · ping wang 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Build a Universal AI Session Manager: Stop Losing Context Across Coding Tools
Learn how to build a universal AI session manager that aggregates chats from Claude Code, ChatGPT, and more—eliminating context loss and boosting developer prod
Galfus Script MVP is complete
Dev.to · Renato Rodrigues 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Galfus Script MVP is complete
Galfus Script has reached its first MVP milestone. Galfus is an experimental programming language...
No Figma. No Jira. No docs. How Gusto built a new product line with Claude Code | Eddie Kim (CTO)
Lenny's Newsletter 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
No Figma. No Jira. No docs. How Gusto built a new product line with Claude Code | Eddie Kim (CTO)
Watch now | ️ Eddie Kim, the CTO of Gusto, shows how a 5-person team shipped a full AI product line in 10 weeks using Claude Code, a perma-Zoom, and zero docum
OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
Lenny's Newsletter 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
Listen now | OpenAI’s Andrew Ambrosino on why software is getting cheaper to build, why taste matters more than ever, and what’s next for the Codex desktop app
Testing Zyloo as an OpenAI-Compatible AI Gateway
Dev.to · Henrique 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Testing Zyloo as an OpenAI-Compatible AI Gateway
I have been testing more AI coding tools lately, and one thing keeps coming up: every model provider...
How do you prevent AI-generated code from drifting away from your conventions over time?
Dev.to · Marc 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How do you prevent AI-generated code from drifting away from your conventions over time?
We've been generating production features with AI for a while now — auth flows, billing hooks,...
Verification Cost Is the Real AI Coding Cost
Dev.to · Zephyre 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Verification Cost Is the Real AI Coding Cost
I used to ask a simple question when routing coding tasks across models: Which model is strong...
"Building an HSK Speaking Test AI: Real-time Tone Grading with Gemini
Dev.to · john lee 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
"Building an HSK Speaking Test AI: Real-time Tone Grading with Gemini
Building an HSK Speaking Test AI: Real-time Tone Grading with Gemini I built a free...
Two-host AI dialogue specs: how I structure YouTube longform scripts with A/B speaker JSON
Dev.to · MORINAGA 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Two-host AI dialogue specs: how I structure YouTube longform scripts with A/B speaker JSON
The two-speaker JSON spec format I use for AI-narrated YouTube explainers: segment beats, voice assignment, slide attachment, and what the CI build does with it
How to Read a Recursive Function Without Losing Your Mind
Dev.to · Ameer Abdullah 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Read a Recursive Function Without Losing Your Mind
Recursion is not difficult. Tracing recursion is difficult. The reason is that most people try to...
Building a Production-Ready AI Chat UI in One Night With Flask
Dev.to · Riya Gorak 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Production-Ready AI Chat UI in One Night With Flask
Most AI demos live in a terminal. Ours didn't. We built SupportMind AI with a full web chat...
I shipped an AI side panel in 2 weekends
Dev.to · AI Buddy 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I shipped an AI side panel in 2 weekends
I am going to talk about shipping speed, because that is what the last two months have been about for...
DSpark: Open-Weight Speed Without a Cerebras Contract
Dev.to · Max Quimby 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
DSpark: Open-Weight Speed Without a Cerebras Contract
DeepSeek's DSpark delivers 85% faster inference via speculative decoding — no exotic hardware. Here's how it works and why it matters.
The Freelance Dev's Guide to Budget AI Coding Models
Dev.to · rarenode 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Freelance Dev's Guide to Budget AI Coding Models
I gotta say, the Freelance Dev's Guide to Budget AI Coding Models I'm going to be brutally honest...
I Made Claude Code Ding When It's Done (And It Changed My Workflow)
Dev.to · Anand Rathnas 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Made Claude Code Ding When It's Done (And It Changed My Workflow)
A 5-line config that plays a sound notification when Claude Code finishes a task or needs your input. Tiny hack, massive quality-of-life upgrade.
CDP Browser Control: Driving Real Chromium from Python
Dev.to · Norax AI 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
CDP Browser Control: Driving Real Chromium from Python
Playwright and Selenium are great until you hit bot detection. Google OAuth, Cloudflare, and Vercel...
The Codebase Is the Prompt
Dev.to · Timon Krebs 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Codebase Is the Prompt
The database analogy is usually wrong when people use it to explain AI. A language model is not a...
Malware spread across my 3 git repos during Copilot agent sessions — Void Dokkaebi campaign, TronGrid C2, and an open question about AI coding agents
Dev.to · couch potato 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Malware spread across my 3 git repos during Copilot agent sessions — Void Dokkaebi campaign, TronGrid C2, and an open question about AI coding agents
TL;DR: Found malicious code (Void Dokkaebi campaign, TRON blockchain C2) spread across 3 of my repos...
Engineering a Brainrot art installation on an Orange Pi Zero 🍊
Dev.to · Paige Bailey 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Engineering a Brainrot art installation on an Orange Pi Zero 🍊
How I built a gamified, infinite-scroll video installation for the TIAT "Slop Epistemologies"...
n8n Code node: run JavaScript (or Python) inside your workflows — free examples
Dev.to · Pirate Prentice 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
n8n Code node: run JavaScript (or Python) inside your workflows — free examples
The n8n Code node is one of the most powerful tools in n8n. It lets you run raw JavaScript (or...