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Anthropic Is Now the Most Valuable AI Startup. Here's the Developer's Read.

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 1w ago

Anthropic Is Now the Most Valuable AI Startup. Here's the Developer's Read.

Anthropic hit a ~$965B valuation, passing OpenAI, on a $47B run-rate driven largely by coding. What a near-trillion-dollar Claude means for developers betting o

Microsoft pulled internal Claude Code licenses — what their engineers' preference tells you about picking AI tools

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

Microsoft pulled internal Claude Code licenses — what their engineers' preference tells you about picking AI tools

Microsoft canceled internal Claude Code licenses for thousands of devs in the Experiences and Devices group, June 30 cutoff. Not a customer-facing 365 Copilot c

LLM Smells: The Tells in AI Writing, and the Costlier Ones in AI Code

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

LLM Smells: The Tells in AI Writing, and the Costlier Ones in AI Code

ai-assisted work leaves a residue you can smell. the writing and design tells are annoying; the same residue in code is a measurable bill. what i do about both.

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years: Why the Skill Doesn't Expire

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years: Why the Skill Doesn't Expire

SQL rests on Codd's 1970 relational model, is declarative so it gets faster without rewrites, and was standardized in 1986. Why that makes it a rare skill that

Is MCP Dead? When the Model Context Protocol Earns Its Complexity

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

Is MCP Dead? When the Model Context Protocol Earns Its Complexity

a calibrated read on the 'mcp is dead' discourse: the token cost is real, anthropic's own code-execution fix cuts it 98.7 percent, and where mcp still earns its

Durable Workflows on Postgres: What "You Don't Need Temporal" Actually Buys You

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

Durable Workflows on Postgres: What "You Don't Need Temporal" Actually Buys You

Postgres-backed durable execution (DBOS) skips the separate orchestrator and gives you transactional exactly-once for free. When that beats Temporal, and the co

Cloudflare vs Vercel for a SaaS in 2026 — which one I actually picked

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

Cloudflare vs Vercel for a SaaS in 2026 — which one I actually picked

After running production workloads on both, the cost and DX difference is bigger than the marketing pages suggest.

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: CLAUDE.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCP

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: CLAUDE.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCP

CLAUDE.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, MCP: which Claude Code features actually earn their place. An honest layering guide from running an autonomous system on

The cron job that failed silently for three weeks (and the dead-man's-switch I built after)

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

The cron job that failed silently for three weeks (and the dead-man's-switch I built after)

A backup script of mine stopped running on a Tuesday. I found out the following Tuesday — three weeks...

Debugging webhooks without print statements: I built RequestTrace on Cloudflare Workers

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 2w ago

Debugging webhooks without print statements: I built RequestTrace on Cloudflare Workers

Every webhook integration I've ever wired up broke the same way: the provider says it sent the event,...

I Automated My Entire Digital Product Business on a $13/Month GCP VM. Here's the Architecture.

Dev.to · Conor Dobbs ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

I Automated My Entire Digital Product Business on a $13/Month GCP VM. Here's the Architecture.

Three weeks ago I set up a loop on a $13/month GCP VM and went to sleep. By morning it had built,...

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Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 3w ago

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