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Dev.to · Manas Sahu
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3w ago
Introducing NobleLex — AI for Legal Understanding ⚖️
NobleLex is an AI-powered legal assistant built to make legal documents easier to read, understand,...

Dev.to · MorskiKupus123
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3w ago
I'm building an AI quote generator for tradespeople — is this actually a problem worth solving?
Hey dev.to! 👋 I'm Martin, a 2nd year Computer Engineering student from Croatia (FERIT...

Dev.to · Jak s
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3w ago
AI Invoice OCR Explained: How Local AI Reads Your PDFs
jaklens.com Step 1 in depth:...

Dev.to · Auke de Haan
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3w ago
Free AI CV Builders in Germany 2026: ATS-Ready, GDPR-Safe, No Login Needed
I have been testing free AI CV tools for three months. Most articles recommend the same five tools....

Dev.to · Raphaël Pinson
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3w ago
Vanity of vanities — on AI slop and the problem of content for content's sake
AI didn't create the problem of empty content. It made it cheaper. 3,000 years ago Qoheleth had a word for it.

Dev.to · Michael Truong
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3w ago
One good example beat every AI writing rule I wrote
I've been building an AI-assisted content pipeline around Codenames AI — field reports from the repo,...

Dev.to · eldara
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3w ago
AIOps on Docker Swarm: Monitoring & Auto-Healing with Prometheus + Grafana + AI Alerts in 2026
Implement a complete AIOps stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and AI-powered auto-healing remediation on Docker Swarm using SwarmCLI.

Dev.to · Sylar
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3w ago
How I decide which AI tools are worth listing: a curator's checklist
I run a small AI tools directory as a side project. Since late 2025 I've reviewed somewhere north of...

Dev.to · jeenie
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3w ago
Stop Using Discord as a Bug Tracker: How I Built a Lean, AI-Powered Feedback Loop
As developers, we are at our best when we are left alone to write clean code. We are at our absolute...

Dev.to · luckyuan wang
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3w ago
How I Built a Free Gemini API Cost Calculator (And Why You Need One)
If you're building with Google's Gemini API, you've probably asked yourself: "How much is this...

Dev.to · Luna · AI Tinkerer
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3w ago
What I'd Actually Tell a Friend About "Free" AI Tools in 2026
What I'd Actually Tell a Friend About "Free" AI Tools in 2026 A practical, not-cheerful...

Dev.to · QuoLu
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3w ago
How I Completed My Home Server Hardware Selection and Migration in One Day Using Claude
Until recently, my home server was running on AMD BC-250 + Bazzite.

Dev.to · Jangwook Kim
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3w ago
MCP-Persona: Tiny Personalized Tool-Use Evaluation
Build a tiny synthetic MCP-Persona-style evaluation for personalized tool use, backed by official sources and an OpenAI API lab check.

Dev.to · dayu2333-jinyul
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3w ago
I Built an AI Logo Generator — Here is What Actually Works vs What Does not
I built AI Logo Generator because I wanted something that produced logos people would actually use,...

Dev.to · isaiahgunther
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3w ago
How to Turn a Recipe Screenshot into Structured JSON
Anyone building a cooking, meal planning, or grocery app hits the same wall fast: people do not save...

Dev.to · serkan
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3w ago
How to track OpenAI API costs with a simple proxy
The problem You're building with the OpenAI API and suddenly get a $200 bill. Which...

Dev.to · faiso0ole
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3w ago
AI Pricing Models Compared: What Buyers Should Watch Before the Invoice Arrives
AI pricing looks simple until the first real invoice arrives. That is when buyers realize the...

Dev.to · Ken W Alger
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3w ago
The Death of Note-Taking and the Rise of the Digital Scribe
In our previous series, we built the Sovereign Vault to verify truth in existing records. But as we...

Dev.to · Muhammad Arslan
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3w ago
HazelJS 1.0.0: Stable Release of the AI-Native TypeScript Framework
Today we are shipping HazelJS 1.0.0 — the first stable release of our AI-native TypeScript framework...

Dev.to · Basavaraj SH
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3w ago
AI Pricing Wars Are Here - What It Means for Your Budget
The AI market is getting competitive fast, and prices are starting to show it. If you're building a...
Dev.to · Maya Shavin 🌷☕️🏡
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3w ago
How To Create An Artistic And Personal Intro Video With ChatGPT And Nano Banana
The process I used to create my 10-second intro video, from generating a personal sketch with ChatGPT to building a storyboard and producing the final animation

Dev.to · Harsha Kumar
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3w ago
How I'd make my first ₹10,000 online as a college student in India using AI — zero budget
I'm 18, still in college, building XEdge solo. Every week I get messages from students asking how to...

Dev.to · Machine coding Master
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3w ago
Stop Syncing Elasticsearch: Native Hybrid Search with Spring AI and Pgvector sparsevec
Stop Syncing Elasticsearch: Native Hybrid Search with Spring AI and Pgvector...

Dev.to · Andre 'Dezo' Queiroz
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3w ago
I parsed my own firewall logs and found which AI tools my org was really talking to — including one routing data to China
I pointed a scanner I wrote at my own network traffic for one afternoon. It came back with eight AI...

Dev.to · Better call Malek
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3w ago
SOS: Trapped in After Effects hell. Send AI tools.
Honestly, building the SaaS was the easy part. Finding a way to make a killer launch video is...

Dev.to · faiso0ole
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4w ago
The Free Trial Trap: Why Enterprise AI Tool Trials Are Almost Always Misleading
Free trials for enterprise software have been a standard sales mechanism for decades. You try it, it...

Dev.to · Juan Torchia
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4w ago
MCP Model Context Protocol en TypeScript: diseñá tools portables entre Claude, GPT y modelos locales
El error más común al implementar MCP tools es acoplarlas al SDK del proveedor. La spec existe para evitar exactamente eso. Guía práctica de diseño desde arquit

Dev.to · schon
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4w ago
A practical budget-control checklist for OpenAI-compatible API gateways
A developer-focused checklist for keeping OpenAI-compatible API usage observable, budget-aware, and easier to route into setup paths.

Dev.to · Ravi Patel
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4w ago
OpenAI prompt caching, explained: automatic, free to enable, 90% off cached input tokens
OpenAI's prompt cache engages automatically on prompts ≥1,024 tokens with no caller-side configuration. The mechanics, the 90% discount

Dev.to · Kai Thorne
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4w ago
One Post, Ten Platforms: My AI Content Repurposing Workflow That Saves 5 Hours a Week
Turn one blog post into 10 pieces of content across different platforms in 15 minutes using AI prompts. Exact workflow, templates, and results included.

Dev.to · Rafael Silva
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4w ago
Building a Side Income Selling AI Developer Tools on Gumroad (Month 2 Update: $382)
Two months ago, I launched my first digital product on Gumroad - a credit optimization tool for Manus...

Dev.to · Pranjal Srivastava
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4w ago
How I Built 65 Free Browser Tools in 2 Weeks Using AI (AstroJS + Cloudflare)
The Problem Every time I needed a quick tool online, the same loop: Search for free PDF...

Dev.to · Brosil Bajracharya
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4w ago
AirVa OS: The Spatial Operating System That Lives in Your Browser
Every OS ever built assumed you interact through a surface. AirVa OS doesn't. Here's what we're building — phase by phase — and why the browser is the perfect c

Dev.to · Brosil Bajracharya
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4w ago
AirVA vs Apple Vision Pro: Spatial Computing at $0 vs $3,499
Apple Vision Pro is an engineering marvel. AirVA runs in a browser tab and costs nothing. This isn't a fight — it's a question about who spatial computing is ac

Dev.to · Induwara Ashinsana
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4w ago
Apple's new iPhone AI features: what they mean for builders
Apple's new iPhone AI features turn plain English into tabs, shortcuts, and password fixes. Here's what that shift actually means for a Sri Lankan builder.

Dev.to · Meet Kelwa
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4w ago
CareerPilot AI:AI Resume Analyzer
In the modern job market, hiring managers and talent acquisition teams face an overwhelming influx of...

Dev.to · Rajat Jain
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4w ago
Updated for mid-2026: Added support for ChatGPT and Gemini exports in addition to AI Studio, using the same local-only DOM parser to cleanly format tables and nested code blocks.
How to Export Google AI Studio Conversations to PDF, Markdown, or JSON in 2026 ...

Dev.to · Omobolaji Adeyan
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4w ago
PhishGuard AI
I have added explainable SPF, DKIM, and DMARC signals to PhishGuard AI, my open-source Python...

Dev.to · ANIS
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4w ago
How I monitor my Telegram userbots with zero infra
I run a few Telegram bots and userbots in production. A couple of aiogram bots, a couple of Telethon...

Dev.to · axis ai
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4w ago
AI Pin Maker — multi-model AI studio for image, video, and custom pin design (just shipped)
Just shipped AI Pin Maker — one AI studio that routes across 28+ image and video models for custom enamel pin design, AI image, video, and themed albums. Free s

Dev.to · Nikolai Aralkin
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4w ago
I built an AI task manager in Russia because I was tired of paying for Notion
What the product actually does TaskFly is an AI-powered task manager. The main...

Dev.to · Carlos Oliva Pascual
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4w ago
Claude Code is Expensive. Here's How to Cut Your Bill 60% (2026)
Claude Code users regularly report $500–2,000/month in API costs. The $20 Pro plan hits rate limits...

Dev.to · xulingfeng
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4w ago
I Wrote 10 AI Stories in 10 Days. My Keyboard Started Smoking on Day 4.
Biggest thing I learned writing the AI, Ego & Regret series: I argue with myself way more than I...

Dev.to · Tien Nguyen
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4w ago
Wiring the ElevenLabs API into a real pipeline: the SDK is 4 lines, the billing isn't
The ElevenLabs quickstart is four lines and it works on the first run. That part is honest. What the...

Dev.to · MORINAGA
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4w ago
Five overlooked packages running my AI directory stack
A curated look at tsx, Pagefind, Crawlee, eemeli/yaml, and @libsql/client — the unsexy dependencies doing most of the actual work.

Dev.to · MORINAGA
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4w ago
Five things that caught my attention this week in AI tools and open-source models
Claude Code Agent View, ZAYA1-8B on AMD hardware, Harness productivity data, ServiceNow in every IDE, and a personal lesson from removing MCP servers.

Dev.to · 龙虾牧马人
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4w ago
GEO Is Replacing SEO: If AI Can't Read Your Article, Nobody Will
You wrote a 2000-word technical deep-dive. You optimized the title for keywords. You polished every...

Dev.to · Brian Spann
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4w ago
Building Custom Recognizers
Extend Presidio with deny-list recognizers, regex patterns, context enhancement, and no-code YAML configuration. Connect external services like Azure AI Languag
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