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AI-Assisted Coding

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and using AI to write better code faster

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Generate unit tests with AI
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Direct Claude Code agents on multi-file tasks
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The Hidden Features of Claude
Dev.to · Dev-Rikshith 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Hidden Features of Claude
Most people use Claude like a chatbot. Ask a question. Get an answer. Maybe generate some code or...
The Gap Between Prototype and Production: How We Fixed It with Nometria
Dev.to · Nometria 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Gap Between Prototype and Production: How We Fixed It with Nometria
Why Your AI-Built App Feels Fast But Breaks at Scale You shipped something in a weekend....
From mock-only-works to real-world-works: 48 hours of reCAPTCHA debugging
Dev.to · MiniKao 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From mock-only-works to real-world-works: 48 hours of reCAPTCHA debugging
A dev diary about shipping an AI-powered reCAPTCHA solver as an MCP tool — and why it took four versions in two days to actually work against the real Google de
Building MGZon: Developer Portfolio + AI Bot + Social Network (9 min demo)
Dev.to · Mark EL-asfar 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building MGZon: Developer Portfolio + AI Bot + Social Network (9 min demo)
After 3 months of solo development, 15,000+ lines of code, and countless iterations, I'm excited to...
"Adding Cursor Composer 2.5 as a third executor lane: 10x cheaper than Opus at comparable scores, but smoke tells a different story"
Dev.to · Takayuki Kawazoe 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
"Adding Cursor Composer 2.5 as a third executor lane: 10x cheaper than Opus at comparable scores, but smoke tells a different story"
A roughly tenfold per-task cost drop at comparable accuracy is one of those numbers you do not get to...
Context bloat is the new bundle bloat
Dev.to · Looped 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Context bloat is the new bundle bloat
TL;DR: AI coding agents are now part of the dev workflow, but most repos still treat context like it...
What I’m Starting to Look for in Engineers
Dev.to · Ran Dror 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What I’m Starting to Look for in Engineers
I think AI is starting to fundamentally change what strong engineering looks like. And honestly, I...
I got tired of re-explaining my codebase to ChatGPT — so I built a VS Code extension
Dev.to · Meet Nakum 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I got tired of re-explaining my codebase to ChatGPT — so I built a VS Code extension
Every developer using AI tools knows this pain. You open ChatGPT or Claude, excited to solve a...
The Hidden Tax of AI-Assisted Development (And How I Fixed It)
Dev.to · Thomas Connally 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Hidden Tax of AI-Assisted Development (And How I Fixed It)
Every AI coding session starts the same way. You open your editor, the assistant says hello, and you...
Claude Code Hooks 101: Turning Your AI Coding Assistant Into an Automated Teammate
Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Claude Code Hooks 101: Turning Your AI Coding Assistant Into an Automated Teammate
Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...
I gave an AI a Kill Switch. Here's what I learned about trust in local-first tooling.
Dev.to · YUVRAJ 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I gave an AI a Kill Switch. Here's what I learned about trust in local-first tooling.
There's a moment every developer hits when they're using an AI coding tool. You paste in something...
I Lost an AI Chat and Realized It Was Part of My Codebase
Dev.to · Aniruddha Ghosh 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Lost an AI Chat and Realized It Was Part of My Codebase
Agentic coding feels magical until you lose the context that built it. I switched development...
How does VuReact optimize Vue 3's top-level arrow functions for React?
Dev.to · Ryan John 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How does VuReact optimize Vue 3's top-level arrow functions for React?
VuReact is a compiler toolchain for migrating from Vue to React — and for writing React with Vue 3...
How does VuReact handle Vue 3's top-level TypeScript declarations in React?
Dev.to · Ryan John 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How does VuReact handle Vue 3's top-level TypeScript declarations in React?
VuReact is a compiler toolchain for migrating from Vue to React — and for writing React with Vue 3...
Three researchers. One GPU. Two years. How the RX 580 became an AI platform.
Dev.to · AIVisionsLab 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Three researchers. One GPU. Two years. How the RX 580 became an AI platform.
All images in this article were generated on the RX 580 8GB — the same GPU everyone said couldn't...
Running FLUX.1 Schnell on an RX 580 8GB — GPU/CPU hybrid architecture
Dev.to · AIVisionsLab 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Running FLUX.1 Schnell on an RX 580 8GB — GPU/CPU hybrid architecture
Image above: generated by FLUX.1 Schnell running on the hybrid architecture described in this...
Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. They just don't believe it.
Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. They just don't believe it.
Senior developers are 19% slower when using AI coding tools. But they think they're faster. That gap...
Everything that failed before Vulkan saved our RX 580 AI setup
Dev.to · AIVisionsLab 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Everything that failed before Vulkan saved our RX 580 AI setup
All images in this article were generated locally on the RX 580 8GB — after we fixed everything...
How I Use Cursor + Claude to Ship React Code 3x Faster
Dev.to · Safdar Ali 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Use Cursor + Claude to Ship React Code 3x Faster
I'm Safdar Ali. I build React and Next.js for a living — frontend at Cube, client work on the side,...
OpenSCAD Pantheon Benchmark: Human-In-The-Loop vs Autonomous Coding Agents
Dev.to · pueding 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
OpenSCAD Pantheon Benchmark: Human-In-The-Loop vs Autonomous Coding Agents
What: The OpenSCAD Pantheon benchmark grades six agentic coding tools — including Antigravity 2.0,...
My Two Weeks with Claude Sonnet 4.6 for C# Development
Dev.to · itysu tur 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
My Two Weeks with Claude Sonnet 4.6 for C# Development
My Two Weeks with Claude Sonnet 4.6 for C# Development Last month, I spent two weeks...
My Two-Week Sprint: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and C# Productivity
Dev.to · itysu tur 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
My Two-Week Sprint: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and C# Productivity
My Two-Week Sprint: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and C# Productivity Last month, I almost gave up on...
Welcome to our Organic Coding Future
Dev.to · Sacha Greif 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Welcome to our Organic Coding Future
A cynical and disillusioned developer imagines coding 10 years from now
I Turned My Claude Code History Into an SAO-Style Floating Castle
Dev.to · Animesh Pathak 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Turned My Claude Code History Into an SAO-Style Floating Castle
A few weeks ago, I was trying to find an old Claude Code session where I had built a small automation...
Understand Anything – TypeScript Project
Dev.to · tharshan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Understand Anything – TypeScript Project
Learn Understand Anything – TypeScript Project from scratch with this step-by-step tutorial. Includes code examples, tips, and FAQs.
Generate Claude Code skills from your git history
Dev.to · Odilon HUGONNOT 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Generate Claude Code skills from your git history
Your git log and memory files are the most honest source for creating custom Claude Code skills. How to audit them, identify recurring patterns, and write skill
The real attack surface for AI coding agents is the config file
Dev.to · Justin Kwon 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The real attack surface for AI coding agents is the config file
If you think the security risk of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI) is "the model...
I Took the AI Pill: My First Vibe Coding Experience
Dev.to · keyboardTester.Click 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Took the AI Pill: My First Vibe Coding Experience
It started like every normal developer journey starts. One browser tab open. Then five. Then...
CLAUDE.md for Express.js: 13 Rules That Stop AI from Breaking Your Middleware Chain
Dev.to · Olivia Craft 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
CLAUDE.md for Express.js: 13 Rules That Stop AI from Breaking Your Middleware Chain
If you've worked with Express.js for more than a week, you know the feeling: you ask Claude to add a...
Moving Past the Autocomplete: Why Antigravity 2.0 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Just Changed the Developer Workflow Forever
Dev.to · Pinaksh Patel 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Moving Past the Autocomplete: Why Antigravity 2.0 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Just Changed the Developer Workflow Forever
We’ve all been riding the "AI assistant" wave for the last few years. We write a comment, wait for a...
How I Indexed 2,000 Claude Code Skills (And What the Install Data Says About AI Coding in 2026)
Dev.to · Shen Huang 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How I Indexed 2,000 Claude Code Skills (And What the Install Data Says About AI Coding in 2026)
The problem: 2,000 skills, no map Claude Code skills exploded across 2025 and into 2026....
Thanks to AI, non-engineers have unfortunately become able to use Git
Dev.to · Hulk in Public 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Thanks to AI, non-engineers have unfortunately become able to use Git
I heard this from my girlfriend yesterday. At her workplace, a non-engineer has been using Claude...
How does VuReact compile Vue 3's useTemplateRef() to React?
Dev.to · Ryan John 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How does VuReact compile Vue 3's useTemplateRef() to React?
VuReact is a compiler toolchain for migrating from Vue to React — and for writing React with Vue 3...
Claude Code vs Cursor AI: Which Should You Use in 2026?
Dev.to · The Dev Brief 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Claude Code vs Cursor AI: Which Should You Use in 2026?
Claude Code is better at understanding legacy code you didn't write. Cursor is better at generating...
The Developer's Guide to Picking the Right AI Code Model in 2026 (I Spent $500 So You Don’t Have To)
Dev.to · eagerspark 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Developer's Guide to Picking the Right AI Code Model in 2026 (I Spent $500 So You Don’t Have To)
I’ve been building backend systems for over a decade. I’ve seen AI code generators go from “cute...
I Built a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform in 3 Months — GitHub Copilot Was My Co-Founder
Dev.to · Syed Ahmer Shah 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Built a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform in 3 Months — GitHub Copilot Was My Co-Founder
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Let me be...
Tentei criar uma CLI para governar código gerado por IA — e descobri que o problema era outro
Dev.to · Marcos Filipe 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Tentei criar uma CLI para governar código gerado por IA — e descobri que o problema era outro
Nos últimos tempos eu venho estudando bastante desenvolvimento assistido por IA, agentes de código,...
How I Built a Real-Time Robot Battle Simulator from Scratch — Logic Arena
Dev.to · Ali Haggag 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How I Built a Real-Time Robot Battle Simulator from Scratch — Logic Arena
A CS student's journey from a blank repo to a production platform with a custom scripting language,...
I got so tired of typing that I built a voice input tool. Here's what changed.
Dev.to · Secret_Agent_007 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I got so tired of typing that I built a voice input tool. Here's what changed.
I'm a developer. I write a lot. Messages, docs, comments, emails, AI prompts — all day long. At some...
Why Claude Code Sessions Diverge: A Mechanism Catalog
Dev.to · Vainamoinen | Pulsed Media 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why Claude Code Sessions Diverge: A Mechanism Catalog
Anthropic's April 2026 postmortem confirmed: Claude Code A/B-routes sessions, behavior is session-sticky, restart actually works. Six mechanisms catalog.
I built an AI that reviews every PR automatically (because nobody was reviewing mine)
Dev.to · Shaan Ali Khan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I built an AI that reviews every PR automatically (because nobody was reviewing mine)
I've been vibe coding for months. Cursor writes the code. Claude fixes the bugs. I ship. Fast....
More Control, More Cost: Why Commanding AI Isn't Delegation
Dev.to · synthaicode 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
More Control, More Cost: Why Commanding AI Isn't Delegation
Yesterday, you typed /format. Checked the output. Typed /refactor. Checked again. Typed /test. You...
How I Built a Multi-System Astrology Bot in Python (And What Meta Banned Me For)
Dev.to · Yegor Shustyk 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How I Built a Multi-System Astrology Bot in Python (And What Meta Banned Me For)
Вот, держи готовый — копируй в body dev.to: Every horoscope app reduces you to 1 of 12 sun signs....
Why AI Coding Agents Hallucinate and How to Fix It
Dev.to · Andrew Shu 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why AI Coding Agents Hallucinate and How to Fix It
Most engineers spot AI coding agent hallucinations but don't fix the underlying cause. How I debug context, rules files, and memory drift.
I Let Claude Code Run Unsupervised for 24 Hours. Here's What Happened.
Dev.to · v. Splicer 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Let Claude Code Run Unsupervised for 24 Hours. Here's What Happened.
The experiment was simple: point Claude Code at a real project, give it a task list, stand back for...
Why Zed Is Replacing VS Code in My AI-Augmented Workflow
Dev.to · v. Splicer 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why Zed Is Replacing VS Code in My AI-Augmented Workflow
VS Code won the editor wars by becoming the Walmart of IDEs — everything available, nothing...
Top 10 AI Coding Tools Developers Actually Use in 2026 (Ranked by a Skeptic)
Dev.to · Top10Grid 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Top 10 AI Coding Tools Developers Actually Use in 2026 (Ranked by a Skeptic)
I've spent the last 12 months replacing parts of my workflow with AI tools — and quietly putting...
Your AI Writes Code Fast. Here’s How to Check It Before Shipping
Dev.to · Benjamin Tetteh 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Your AI Writes Code Fast. Here’s How to Check It Before Shipping
A beginner-friendly guide to building an automated security pipeline with GitHub Actions —...