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AI Table Generator Features Worth Actually Using
Dev.to · Olayiwola Akinnagbe 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Table Generator Features Worth Actually Using
If you search for an AI table generator, you will find a lot of tools that generate something vaguely...
DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Wins in 2025?
Dev.to · loyaldash 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Wins in 2025?
Honestly, deepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Wins in 2025? I'll be honest — when I first...
Adding Release Gates to AI Browser Automation Runs With Real Profiles
Dev.to · web4browser 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Adding Release Gates to AI Browser Automation Runs With Real Profiles
A Playwright task can pass locally and still fail in a team run. It may open the wrong persistent...
Breaking the SQL Barrier: How to Build a Natural Language Database Assistant
Dev.to · RODRIGO SIDNEY COLQUE QUISPE 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Breaking the SQL Barrier: How to Build a Natural Language Database Assistant
Tags: #DataEngineering #AI #Python #HuggingFace #Streamlit For decades, SQL has been the universal...
Free AI Video Generator: How I Built a Zero-Cost Tool for Narrated Multi-Scene Videos
Dev.to · SandGrid 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Free AI Video Generator: How I Built a Zero-Cost Tool for Narrated Multi-Scene Videos
"The solution is not to suppress AI, but to make it a more equitable capability, so that everyone...
Cutting AI Costs: Batch API for Non-Urgent Workflows
Dev.to · kapil Maheshwari 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cutting AI Costs: Batch API for Non-Urgent Workflows
Learn how to route non-urgent AI tasks to Batch API, reducing costs by ~50% while maintaining user experience.
Extract Structured JSON from Messy Text with Telnyx AI Inference
Dev.to · Sonam 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Extract Structured JSON from Messy Text with Telnyx AI Inference
Messy text is everywhere: support tickets, lead forms, emails, contracts, incident reports, call...
Why I Spent a Weekend Comparing AI API Prices — And What Surprised Me
Dev.to · RileyKim 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why I Spent a Weekend Comparing AI API Prices — And What Surprised Me
Why I Spent a Weekend Comparing AI API Prices — And What Surprised Me Last Saturday I canceled my...
The Tuesday the Spare Phone Earned Its Keep — How an Old Android and a Free App Beat a $12/mo Camera
Dev.to · Super Funicular 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Tuesday the Spare Phone Earned Its Keep — How an Old Android and a Free App Beat a $12/mo Camera
A short story. Names and details are composited, but every capability described is a real feature of...
Bolt.new vs Velra: Best AI Builder for Billing
Dev.to · Jacob Gargaro 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Bolt.new vs Velra: Best AI Builder for Billing
Bolt.new vs Velra for a SaaS with billing: Bolt.new is great for prototyping; Velra wires Stripe to your account and syncs code to GitHub.
I Replaced 12 Developer Tools with ChatGPT (Here's What Actually Happened After 30 Days)
Dev.to · Datta Sable 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Replaced 12 Developer Tools with ChatGPT (Here's What Actually Happened After 30 Days)
I have a confession. Somewhere around day nine of this experiment, I almost quit and went back to my...
From $3 to My First Real MRR: My 90-Day AI API Affiliate Build Log
Dev.to · true 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From $3 to My First Real MRR: My 90-Day AI API Affiliate Build Log
Hey, I'm an indie maker. I run three small SaaS products, a tiny newsletter, and I keep trying to...
An AI-powered engineering intelligence platform.
Dev.to · Sumit Uppal 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
An AI-powered engineering intelligence platform.
I dare you to find an AI tool that admits when it doesn't know something. I'll wait. Okay, I won't...
Why Every Developer Should Learn Python Automation in 2025
Dev.to · qing 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Every Developer Should Learn Python Automation in 2025
As we dive into 2025, the world of development is becoming increasingly automated. From data analysis...
GLM 5.2 Fast + Gemini's Computer Use: Week's Dev Wins
Dev.to · The Dev Signal 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
GLM 5.2 Fast + Gemini's Computer Use: Week's Dev Wins
This week's AI tooling releases skewed heavily toward reducing operational complexity rather than raw...
We Saved 6 Hours of QA Time This Week Using AI — Here's the Breakdown (Week 7 Roundup)
Dev.to · The AI Leverage Weekly 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We Saved 6 Hours of QA Time This Week Using AI — Here's the Breakdown (Week 7 Roundup)
We Saved 6 Hours of QA Time This Week Using AI — Here's the Breakdown (Week 7...
How I built a YouTube slide renderer in Python — eight kinds, no browser
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I built a YouTube slide renderer in Python — eight kinds, no browser
Building a 1920x1080 PNG slide system with Pillow: dispatch tables, brand chrome, table layouts, and a thumbnail renderer — all from a JSON spec in CI.
"Personas vs. tool-scoping: where I landed differently from gstack"
Dev.to · greymoth 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
"Personas vs. tool-scoping: where I landed differently from gstack"
I've been watching how other people structure their Claude Code setups, and gstack got me thinking....
What I Learned Building an AI Resume Optimizer — And What Recruiters Actually Told Me
Dev.to · dayu2333-jinyul 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What I Learned Building an AI Resume Optimizer — And What Recruiters Actually Told Me
Built an AI tool to tailor resumes to job descriptions. Then I talked to actual recruiters and learned what really matters.
Everyone's migrating to Playwright. But why, actually?
Dev.to · Srinath S 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Everyone's migrating to Playwright. But why, actually?
Lately every other team I talk to is moving off Selenium Java and onto Playwright with JS/TS. Cool....
AI made generation cheap. It did not make judgment cheap.
Dev.to · Sho Naka 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI made generation cheap. It did not make judgment cheap.
Using AI in production work, the bottleneck moved from producing work to deciding what deserves to survive.
How To Manage AI Cognitive Overload – Lessons After 9 Apps Shipped in 4 Months
Dev.to · Dragos Roua 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How To Manage AI Cognitive Overload – Lessons After 9 Apps Shipped in 4 Months
In the last four months, I managed to ship nine iOS apps. That’s a pace that would have been...
(Spanish) El navegador ya no es solo para humanos
Dev.to · Christian Gonzales Komiya 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
(Spanish) El navegador ya no es solo para humanos
Por qué las páginas web públicas son ahora accesibles de formas que antes eran impensables Hubo...
Notable releases I'm watching: Deno 2.8, Models.dev, DeepSeek V4 Pro permanent pricing
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Notable releases I'm watching: Deno 2.8, Models.dev, DeepSeek V4 Pro permanent pricing
Five links from the week of May 19 that caught my attention as someone running three AI-curated directory sites on a $25/month stack.
Cloud AI Dev: Figma AI Motion, Slack Multi-Cloud AI, FB Creator Studio App
Dev.to · soy 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cloud AI Dev: Figma AI Motion, Slack Multi-Cloud AI, FB Creator Studio App
Cloud AI Dev: Figma AI Motion, Slack Multi-Cloud AI, FB Creator Studio App ...
Unit Prices Are Falling, So Why Are the Bills Going Up? Tokenomics for AI Platform Owners
Dev.to · Kento IKEDA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Unit Prices Are Falling, So Why Are the Bills Going Up? Tokenomics for AI Platform Owners
"Model unit prices keep falling, yet our monthly AI bill keeps climbing." If you use AI personally,...
How to use the Claude & DeepSeek APIs from Indonesia — pay in Rupiah via QRIS (no credit card)
Dev.to · Nexotao 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to use the Claude & DeepSeek APIs from Indonesia — pay in Rupiah via QRIS (no credit card)
Disclosure: This is the Nexotao team — I'm describing our own gateway below. I've kept it to facts...
Your AI-tool usage is invisible. Here are 4 tiny local tools to see it.
Dev.to · greymoth 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI-tool usage is invisible. Here are 4 tiny local tools to see it.
I burned ~194k Claude Code messages and couldn't see where any of it went. So I wrote four small, 100% local tools that read your usage and print a shareable ca
3 Open-Source Repos That Each Kill a Different AI Bill(token, infra, creative)
Dev.to · Shilpa Mitra 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
3 Open-Source Repos That Each Kill a Different AI Bill(token, infra, creative)
Your AI spend is three bills, not one: tokens, agent infrastructure, and paid creative tools. Here are three open-source repos that cut one each, with the hones
How I cut AI token usage by 40% with a pre-filter step
Dev.to · Berat Bozkurt 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I cut AI token usage by 40% with a pre-filter step
When I built ReleaseHub - a CLI that generates release notes from merged PRs - every PR went to the...
MCP should not mean letting AI touch your database
Dev.to · HideyukiMORI 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
MCP should not mean letting AI touch your database
A practical argument for using MCP tools as documented API boundaries, not production database shortcuts.
Why I Stopped Proofreading Manually and Built a Grammar Checker Instead
Dev.to · member_ce2645ea 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why I Stopped Proofreading Manually and Built a Grammar Checker Instead
I was that person who would write a single email, read it eight times, still hit send, and...
How I Split PDFs in the Browser with Vue 3 and pdf-lib
Dev.to · sunshey 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Split PDFs in the Browser with Vue 3 and pdf-lib
Splitting a PDF is one of those features that sounds trivial until you try to build it. Users expect...
How to Post 100 Videos a Week Without Editing Software
Dev.to · Javid Jamae 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Post 100 Videos a Week Without Editing Software
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You run a one-person operation. You know you should be...
I tested whether "just paste the leak into your AI to fix it" actually works. It depends on the model — here's what broke.
Dev.to · 이령 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I tested whether "just paste the leak into your AI to fix it" actually works. It depends on the model — here's what broke.
The gap I wanted to fill A secret scanner can tell you "you leaked an API key here." The usual next...
Multi-page OCR and agent orchestration: what's actually worth shipping this week
Dev.to · The Dev Signal 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Multi-page OCR and agent orchestration: what's actually worth shipping this week
Two themes dominated AI tooling this week: document parsing finally getting serious about production...
How to Build a Crypto Trading Bot in Python — Step-by-Step Guide with Source Code
Dev.to · Kamran 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Build a Crypto Trading Bot in Python — Step-by-Step Guide with Source Code
Complete guide to building a production-ready crypto trading bot in Python with Binance API, modular strategies, backtesting, paper trading, and Docker deployme
AI SQL Assistants: What to Actually Look For Before You Commit
Dev.to · Vivek Kumar 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI SQL Assistants: What to Actually Look For Before You Commit
Not all AI SQL tools are equal. Here's the framework developers use to evaluate schema awareness, join accuracy, hallucination rates, and workflow fit before ch
Connector Support in Off Grid AI Desktop: Private, Approval-Gated Integrations
Dev.to · Mohammed Ali Chherawalla 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Connector Support in Off Grid AI Desktop: Private, Approval-Gated Integrations
Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, and any MCP tool locally. The on-device model reasons over the data; every action goes through an approval queue.
The Ecosystem Anchor Trap: Why Your 'Free' AI Image Tool Costs More Than You Think
Dev.to · xu xu 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Ecosystem Anchor Trap: Why Your 'Free' AI Image Tool Costs More Than You Think
Your GPU cluster is maxed out. Not because you're running inference at scale — because that "simple"...
Translating Windows system audio in real time — driverless, with no virtual cable
Dev.to · Davut Akça 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Translating Windows system audio in real time — driverless, with no virtual cable
I build Voxis, an open-source Windows app that translates whatever your system is playing — a video,...
OpenAI-Compatible APIs Are Great Until Streaming Breaks: What I Check Before Switching Providers
Dev.to · plasma 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
OpenAI-Compatible APIs Are Great Until Streaming Breaks: What I Check Before Switching Providers
Swapping an AI provider looks easy on paper. Change the baseURL, keep the OpenAI SDK, point your app...
I Spent Hours Parsing Logs Until I Tried This AI Approach
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Spent Hours Parsing Logs Until I Tried This AI Approach
Let me set the scene: I had just inherited a massive collection of log files from a dozen...
Vertex AI 'Resource exhausted' (429) API Rate Limit on a Single VM
Dev.to · 박준희 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Vertex AI 'Resource exhausted' (429) API Rate Limit on a Single VM
Running a full AI product on a single small VM presents unique challenges, especially when external APIs start throwing rate limit errors. This postmortem detai
Sync a mailbox into your own database with Nylas
Dev.to · Qasim 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Sync a mailbox into your own database with Nylas
A real use case: keep a local copy of a mailbox for search and analytics. Backfill the history, then stay current with webhooks, using the Nylas Email API and C
Velra vs Lovable: Which AI Builder Ships Stripe?
Dev.to · Jacob Gargaro 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Velra vs Lovable: Which AI Builder Ships Stripe?
Velra vs Lovable: which AI builder actually ships Stripe? Compare subscriptions, code ownership, and the path to a paid SaaS faster.
Three GPU affiliate programs I wired into an AI tool directory
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Three GPU affiliate programs I wired into an AI tool directory
RunPod, Vast.ai, and Hetzner Cloud as contextual affiliate links on model pages — how I implemented them, which ones are actually clickable, and what converts.
I got nervous about installing MCP servers, so I built a scanner for them
Dev.to · Thandv 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I got nervous about installing MCP servers, so I built a scanner for them
Every few days there's a new MCP server or Claude Code skill worth trying. And almost all of them you...