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Why I'm betting on Claude Code over Cursor for a solo dev pipeline
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why I'm betting on Claude Code over Cursor for a solo dev pipeline
A falsifiable 9-month bet on AI development tooling. Claude Code wins on multi-file and terminal-native work; here's what I'm giving up and what would change my
How I Built a Free Online Image & PDF Processing Platform with Vue 3 + FastAPI
Dev.to · IAMUU 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How I Built a Free Online Image & PDF Processing Platform with Vue 3 + FastAPI
How I Built a Free Online Image & PDF Processing Platform with Vue 3 + FastAPI I was...
Best AI Tools for Product-Led Growth (PLG) in 2026: 8 Tools That Turn Product Usage Into Growth
Dev.to · Hadil Ben Abdallah 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Best AI Tools for Product-Led Growth (PLG) in 2026: 8 Tools That Turn Product Usage Into Growth
According to the PLG AI 2026 SaaS Benchmarks report, the top 10% of B2B SaaS companies grow annual...
Self-Hosted Audio Transcription API with Whisper — Free, No Limits, No Black Box
Dev.to · Alexey D 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Self-Hosted Audio Transcription API with Whisper — Free, No Limits, No Black Box
Most transcription services are a black box. You send audio, you get text, you pay per minute, and...
10 Everyday Ways You Can Use AI to Save Time in 2026
Dev.to · patil rushikesh 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
10 Everyday Ways You Can Use AI to Save Time in 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just for developers or big companies. Today, anyone can use...
I Built a Morning Briefing Bot in 50 Lines of Python — Here's Why I Check Telegram Before Email Now
Dev.to · Sam Hartley 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Built a Morning Briefing Bot in 50 Lines of Python — Here's Why I Check Telegram Before Email Now
I Built a Morning Briefing Bot in 50 Lines of Python — Here's Why I Check Telegram Before...
How to prepare for Spain civil service TIC exam using AI in 2026
Dev.to · David García 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to prepare for Spain civil service TIC exam using AI in 2026
Preparing for the Spanish Civil Service TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones) exam...
I Built 5 Free AI Tools That Replace $200/month in SaaS Subscriptions
Dev.to · The AI producer 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Built 5 Free AI Tools That Replace $200/month in SaaS Subscriptions
The Subscription Fatigue is Real I was paying $47 for ChatGPT Plus, $29 for Jasper, $19...
Prompt caching cut my Claude API bill by 85%. Here's the exact setup.
Dev.to · Penloom Studio 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Prompt caching cut my Claude API bill by 85%. Here's the exact setup.
Anthropic's prompt caching can eliminate 85-90% of your input token cost on repeated system prompts and tool definitions. Here's exactly how to enable it, what
Why I built a simple AI provider wrapper (and you might too)
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why I built a simple AI provider wrapper (and you might too)
Let me take you back to last month. I was knee-deep in a side project that needed to generate...
How AI Assist Turns a Rough Draft into a Polished Document in Minutes
Dev.to · paperquire 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How AI Assist Turns a Rough Draft into a Polished Document in Minutes
You've got a rough draft. Bullet points, half-finished paragraphs, maybe some notes you pasted from a...
Eight Shorts, Same Timeslot. The Engine Found Them.
Dev.to · Robert Floyd Dugger 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Eight Shorts, Same Timeslot. The Engine Found Them.
At 11:40 PM I asked my AI what was on my YouTube calendar for August. It told me I had eight videos...
GLM Is the New Hotness, So Let's Test It On the Homelab
Dev.to · Rob 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
GLM Is the New Hotness, So Let's Test It On the Homelab
GLM is suddenly everywhere in developer conversations. Before we run the bakeoff, we need to answer two questions: what is GLM, and is it suitable for a single
What I Changed to Get AIdeazz Cited in Perplexity Answers
Dev.to · Elena Revicheva 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What I Changed to Get AIdeazz Cited in Perplexity Answers
Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link. For four months our docs...
Hover now supports Custom Actions
Dev.to · Harish Kotra (he/him) 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Hover now supports Custom Actions
Hover already made it easy to ask AI to explain, rewrite, summarize, translate, or fix text without...
I Spent $50K on AI APIs Last Year — Here's What I'd Do Differently as a...
Dev.to · swift 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Spent $50K on AI APIs Last Year — Here's What I'd Do Differently as a...
Honestly, i Spent $50K on AI APIs Last Year — Here's What I'd Do Differently as a Startup CTO Six...
Point the OpenAI SDK at RouterBase in a few minutes
Dev.to · routerbasecom 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Point the OpenAI SDK at RouterBase in a few minutes
If your application already uses OpenAI-style chat-completions calls, the lowest-friction way to test...
The AI Tools That Actually Saved Me Hours as a Developer — and the Ones That Didn't
Dev.to · Informer Tech 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The AI Tools That Actually Saved Me Hours as a Developer — and the Ones That Didn't
Every week, another AI tool lands on Product Hunt promising to "10x your developer productivity."...
I'm AI-First, Vanilla JS Only, and I'm Not Sorry
Dev.to · brixtonmavu 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I'm AI-First, Vanilla JS Only, and I'm Not Sorry
Disclosure: This article was drafted with the assistance of AI-powered tools. I guided, edited, and...
OAuth Token Flows and Microsoft Entra ID: How One Application Proves Who It Is to Another
Dev.to · Manohari Jayachandran 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
OAuth Token Flows and Microsoft Entra ID: How One Application Proves Who It Is to Another
A post on my TechStack blog about Azure Key Vault answered the question of where secrets live. This...
Detecting Which AI Chat Platform You're On: URL and DOM Patterns for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot
Dev.to · SHOTA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Detecting Which AI Chat Platform You're On: URL and DOM Patterns for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot
If you're building a Chrome extension that works with AI chat platforms — prompt injection, session...
How to Track Per-User OpenAI Costs in Your Next.js App
Dev.to · John Medina 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Track Per-User OpenAI Costs in Your Next.js App
So you've integrated the OpenAI API into your Next.js app. Your users love it. But then you get the...
What 'quality-tested' actually means for a library of 394 AI skills
Dev.to · ur-grue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What 'quality-tested' actually means for a library of 394 AI skills
"Quality-tested" is the kind of phrase that usually means nothing. Every tool claims it. Most mean...
Look Up Phone Number Carrier and Line Type with Python and the Telnyx Number Lookup API
Dev.to · Harpreet Singh Seehra 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Look Up Phone Number Carrier and Line Type with Python and the Telnyx Number Lookup API
Every communications workflow has a question it needs answered before the first message or call goes...
Use GPT Image 2 in Hermes with a custom image API
Dev.to · Eli 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Use GPT Image 2 in Hermes with a custom image API
Hermes already has an image_generate tool. In many installs, that tool points at a built-in provider...
i built an auto-apply tool, then found most "applications" never confirm they submitted
Dev.to · Ava Bagherzadeh 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
i built an auto-apply tool, then found most "applications" never confirm they submitted
solo founder, building in public. short writeup of the one engineering problem that became the whole...
Why AI recommends the same tools every time, and which slots you can actually win
Dev.to · Gissur Runarsson 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why AI recommends the same tools every time, and which slots you can actually win
AI recommends the same tools every time. Some recommendation slots are welded shut, some are wide open. Here is how to tell which is which, and how a challenger
How to Automate the ChatGPT & Gemini Web UIs Without an API Key
Dev.to · Usama 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Automate the ChatGPT & Gemini Web UIs Without an API Key
You've got a folder of a few hundred screenshots and you want the text out of each one. Or you want...
GPT-5.6 pricing: the cheaper model is not always the cheaper AI workflow
Dev.to · Shruti Saraswat 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
GPT-5.6 pricing: the cheaper model is not always the cheaper AI workflow
GPT-5.6 pricing shows why SaaS teams should model AI costs by workflow, not just by model price, token rates, or API calls.
Let Aurora Sleep: Multi-Tenant SaaS Cost, Reconsidered with AI IaC
Dev.to · Takafumi Endo 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Let Aurora Sleep: Multi-Tenant SaaS Cost, Reconsidered with AI IaC
The cost pain usually isn't Aurora — it's making Aurora the center of every request. Demote it to a thin control plane, push viewing and LLM hot paths to S3/Clo
I tracked which AI models people actually use for a month. The top 5 are all Chinese or open-weight.
Dev.to · CodeLong888 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I tracked which AI models people actually use for a month. The top 5 are all Chinese or open-weight.
Everyone argues about which AI model is "best" using benchmarks. I wanted to know something simpler:...
How to Get Free OpenAI API Credits in 2026
Dev.to · Denise Amsen 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Get Free OpenAI API Credits in 2026
Are you looking to build AI applications using OpenAI's API but want to reduce upfront costs? Here is...
Making the Context Across 46 Repositories Semantically Searchable for AI (Part 2)
Dev.to · Ryosuke Tsuji 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Making the Context Across 46 Repositories Semantically Searchable for AI (Part 2)
The biggest issue Part 1 left open was that AI couldn't reach the 46-repo codebase by natural-language query (the entry-point problem). This post is how I solve
I built a Python ORM with a Rust engine — here's how the GIL, PyO3, and asyncio actually cooperate
Dev.to · Seva D 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a Python ORM with a Rust engine — here's how the GIL, PyO3, and asyncio actually cooperate
I like Tortoise ORM. Django-style models, async-first, clean. But I wanted more speed on read-heavy...
GLM 5.2 isn't free: not even my US$4,000 Spark can run it
Dev.to · Cristian Tala 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
GLM 5.2 isn't free: not even my US$4,000 Spark can run it
GLM 5.2 is open source, but running it needs ~240 GB of memory. I have a US$4,000 Spark and it's not enough. Why 'free' is marketing, with real data.
Simon Willison's Blog 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Count the number of Safari tabs
Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags:
How to Integrate a Web Search API Into Your Application
Dev.to · amy 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Integrate a Web Search API Into Your Application
Every modern application needs information. Whether you're building a chatbot, a research assistant,...
I Studied 15 Trending AI Products on Product Hunt — Here Are the 7 Patterns That Actually Work
Dev.to · The AI producer 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Studied 15 Trending AI Products on Product Hunt — Here Are the 7 Patterns That Actually Work
I spent the morning analyzing the top 15 products on Product Hunt. Every single one in the top 10 is...
AI Boosts SaaS
Dev.to · Harisha P C 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Boosts SaaS
Introduction to the AI-Powered SaaS Revolution The world of software as a service (SaaS)...
The job seeker's guide to AI tools that won't get you banned
Dev.to · Elyasians(elyasians.com) 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The job seeker's guide to AI tools that won't get you banned
As I sit here, reflecting on my own job search journey, I am reminded of the countless hours I spent...
How I Run My Content Tooling on a Local Model for $0
Dev.to · Hugo Kuznicki 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Run My Content Tooling on a Local Model for $0
A few months ago I added up what I was spending on AI APIs just to draft social posts. It wasn't a...
I Ran DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM Through Real Client Work
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Ran DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM Through Real Client Work
I Ran DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM Through Real Client Work Last Tuesday I had a problem. A client...
Cheapest AI APIs 2026: A Cloud Architect's Field Notes
Dev.to · rarenode 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cheapest AI APIs 2026: A Cloud Architect's Field Notes
Cheapest AI APIs 2026: A Cloud Architect's Field Notes Three a.m. on a Tuesday, and I'm staring at a...
I Built a SEC Disclosure-Risk Audit Tool — Here's What It Found on a Real Ticker (SNBR)
Dev.to · Jared Ablon 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a SEC Disclosure-Risk Audit Tool — Here's What It Found on a Real Ticker (SNBR)
A walkthrough of a forensic SEC-disclosure audit my tool generated on Sleep Number Corp — what patterns it caught, how the system works, and what an outside ana
I Built an AI Tool That Emails Hiring Managers Instead of Clicking "Easy Apply"
Dev.to · sadak bouaziz 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built an AI Tool That Emails Hiring Managers Instead of Clicking "Easy Apply"
Most job search tools focus on submitting more applications. I wanted to solve a different problem:...
Kustom vs SaaS: Cara Memilih Arsitektur AI Knowledge Base Internal yang Tepat
Dev.to · Open Craft 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Kustom vs SaaS: Cara Memilih Arsitektur AI Knowledge Base Internal yang Tepat
Memilih antara platform AI knowledge base siap pakai (off-the-shelf) dan sistem yang dibangun dari awal bukan soal mana yang lebih canggih—ini soal ko
We Didn't Need Another AI Tool. We Needed Better Processes.
Dev.to · Saifuddin Tipu 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We Didn't Need Another AI Tool. We Needed Better Processes.
AI is everywhere. Every day, a new tool promises to automate your work, answer your questions, or...
AI Will Not Replace Your IT Roadmap But It Changes It
Dev.to · Andreas-Christian Hetzl 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Will Not Replace Your IT Roadmap But It Changes It
A practical guide for IT career changers on using AI without losing role clarity, fundamentals, proof, or a realistic roadmap.