📰 Dev.to · Alan West

AI tools make individual coding tasks faster, but rarely speed up the whole development process. Here's why — and what actually moves the needle.

A practical look at Chris Banes' new repo of Claude Code skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android — what works, what to watch for, and why the pattern ma

AI assistants make you ship faster at first, then debugging eats the gains. Here's the verification workflow that keeps you ahead long-term.

Explore Chromex, a Codex-powered Chrome side-panel AI assistant, and learn how browser-native AI tools leverage page context for smarter workflows.

Comparing Auth0, Clerk, and Authon for authentication in AI-assisted vibe coding projects — pricing, SDKs, DX, and honest tradeoffs.

AI coding assistants are shifting to usage-based billing. Learn how to track, optimize, and control your AI tool costs before they spiral out of control.

AI coding assistants can rebuild the mental context you lost on abandoned side projects. Here's a practical workflow for reviving stalled repos and actually shi

Fix your AI coding assistant's generic outputs by building custom skills — modular instruction sets that give it the domain context it needs.

MoE coding models like Kimi K2 crash with OOM errors because total parameters far exceed active ones. Here's how to fix it with quantization and smart offloadin

AI-generated code often breaks in production due to hidden assumptions. Here's how to audit vibe-coded projects and build a workflow that actually holds up.

Rust rewrites are transforming developer CLI tools. A look at the claw-code-parity project and why systems-level thinking matters for AI coding assistants.

AI coding CLI tools drop tasks mid-execution more than they should. Here's how to diagnose and fix the three most common tool harness failures.

A practical guide to migrating from AI-dependent to AI-augmented development, with real auth code examples and tool comparisons.

Feeling like AI tools killed your love of coding? Here's why it happens and a practical framework to bring back the satisfaction of solving problems yourself.

Stop wasting hours on broken local AI setups. A step-by-step guide to choosing the right open-source models, inference engines, and API layers.

Fix slow, expensive TTS in production apps by self-hosting open-weight models like Voxtral — with practical setup steps and code examples.