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AI-Assisted Coding

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

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We Are Wrong About AI Coding.
Dev.to · Temisan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
We Are Wrong About AI Coding.
The past couple of years have been pretty wild for developers. Ever since AI entered the picture,...
The Future of Architecture in the AI Era -A Backend Developer’s Perspective
Dev.to · KAILAS VS 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Future of Architecture in the AI Era -A Backend Developer’s Perspective
For years, backend engineering culture treated architecture as a sign of engineering maturity. We...
"I built a code intelligence tool that runs on a Samsung A04 in Termux — and it works offline"
Dev.to · Junior Jamine 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
"I built a code intelligence tool that runs on a Samsung A04 in Termux — and it works offline"
I'm not coding on a MacBook Pro. I'm not on a powerful Linux desktop. I'm coding on a Samsung A04...
TypeScript Generics That Actually Matter — A Practical Guide for 2026
Dev.to · kol kol 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
TypeScript Generics That Actually Matter — A Practical Guide for 2026
Stop using `any`. Learn the generic patterns that eliminate 95% of runtime type errors with zero runtime overhead.
I Kept Hitting Claude Code's 5-Hour Limit After 2 Hours. So I Built This.
Dev.to · ec1980 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Kept Hitting Claude Code's 5-Hour Limit After 2 Hours. So I Built This.
If you use Claude Code heavily, you've probably hit the wall. You're deep into a session, the agent...
Your AI speed benchmark is measuring the one workload you don't run
Dev.to · Thousand Miles AI 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your AI speed benchmark is measuring the one workload you don't run
Every published "tokens per second" number you've used to pick an inference provider is measured on a...
context management is the new debugging skill
Dev.to · Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
context management is the new debugging skill
The O'Reilly Radar asked why nobody teaches context management. The answer: because we barely teach debugging, and context management is debugging's smarter sib
Why Claude Code AutoFix Can’t Fix Flaky Tests
Dev.to · Mihir Shinde 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Claude Code AutoFix Can’t Fix Flaky Tests
Why Claude Code AutoFix Can’t Fix Flaky Tests AutoFix is great at real bugs. Flaky tests...
AI Took the Boring Parts of Coding. The Boring Parts Were Where You Actually Learned.
Dev.to · MVPBuilder_io 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Took the Boring Parts of Coding. The Boring Parts Were Where You Actually Learned.
A few months back, Addy Osmani — a senior engineering lead at Google — wrote about something he'd...
Why Your AI-Generated Code Passes Tests but Fails Production
Dev.to · Ashwini Kumar 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Your AI-Generated Code Passes Tests but Fails Production
AI coding assistants are fast — but fast in the wrong direction is just a faster way to...
I installed 116 Claude Code skills. After 30 days I'd used 35
Dev.to · Sergei Frangulov 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I installed 116 Claude Code skills. After 30 days I'd used 35
I kept installing Claude Code skills because it's one command and it's free. Every time I saw a skill...
HTML is the new Markdown: How Anthropic engineers are building with Claude Code | Thariq Shihipar
Lenny's Newsletter 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
HTML is the new Markdown: How Anthropic engineers are building with Claude Code | Thariq Shihipar
Watch now | ️ Anthropic's Claude Code engineer on why HTML replaced markdown, building micro-apps for spec editing, living design systems, and becoming a "comp
The AI Workflow That Saved Me From a Debugging Spiral (And How to Replicate It)
Dev.to · Tal Vardi 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The AI Workflow That Saved Me From a Debugging Spiral (And How to Replicate It)
Last quarter I lost a full afternoon to a bug that, in hindsight, took 11 minutes to fix once I...
On-Device AI for Construction Safety: Why I'm Skipping the Cloud Entirely
Dev.to · Todd Sullivan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
On-Device AI for Construction Safety: Why I'm Skipping the Cloud Entirely
I've been building a construction safety inspection app — GroundCheck — and from day one I made a...
Capturing the "why" behind every Claude Code commit: building a memory layer with MCP and hooks
Dev.to · kwo2002 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Capturing the "why" behind every Claude Code commit: building a memory layer with MCP and hooks
A week ago I opened a piece of code Claude Code had written for me. Looked at it and asked: "Wait —...
The One Rule I Follow to Code with AI (Without Losing My Skills)
Dev.to · Cesar Aguirre 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The One Rule I Follow to Code with AI (Without Losing My Skills)
I haven't blindly jumped on the AI hype train. But I'm no hater either. AI is here to stay. That's...
Spring AI Explained — ChatClient, RAG, Advisors, and Every Core Component
Dev.to · Piyush Kumar Singh 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Spring AI Explained — ChatClient, RAG, Advisors, and Every Core Component
Most Spring AI tutorials jump straight to code. You copy the dependency, paste the config, call...
AI proposed 5 components for my parallel system. After walking one scenario, only 3 were real.
Dev.to · Aming 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI proposed 5 components for my parallel system. After walking one scenario, only 3 were real.
TL;DR — AI loves to design "enterprise-grade" systems for you: message queue, distributed lock,...
5 Tips to Cut Claude Code Token Usage by 30%
Dev.to · Alaric 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
5 Tips to Cut Claude Code Token Usage by 30%
I've been using Claude Code daily for the past few months. The output quality is great, but the API...
Why AI Won't Make Your Engineering Processes Faster (And What Actually Does)
Dev.to · pickuma 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why AI Won't Make Your Engineering Processes Faster (And What Actually Does)
Code generation speed isn't where engineering teams lose time. Here's where AI tools like Cursor and Copilot actually compress cycle time, and the boring proces
AI Is a Technology, Not a Product: What Devs Should Build Instead
Dev.to · pickuma 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Is a Technology, Not a Product: What Devs Should Build Instead
Gruber's electricity analogy for AI, unpacked — why thin GPT wrappers keep dying, what survives the test, and where dev tools like Cursor actually fit in your s
What Broke After 10M WebSocket Events (And How We Rewired Our Realtime AI Pipeline)
Dev.to · hamza qureshi 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What Broke After 10M WebSocket Events (And How We Rewired Our Realtime AI Pipeline)
Introduction We hit a wall after about 10 million WebSocket events in a month....
I Wrote an MCP Server for My 3D Printer
Dev.to · Nic Lydon 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Wrote an MCP Server for My 3D Printer
I’m writing this on a Sunday afternoon. The 3D printer on my kitchen counter has been printing for 19...
Designing Reliable Permission Models with Lean 4
Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Designing Reliable Permission Models with Lean 4
Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...
I Built an AI Pair Programmer for VS Code Because Copilot Felt Too Expensive for Many Developers
Dev.to · Aakash 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built an AI Pair Programmer for VS Code Because Copilot Felt Too Expensive for Many Developers
I Built an AI Pair Programmer for VS Code Because Copilot Felt Too Expensive for Many...
How I Automated Away My Weekly Status Reports with Next.js and Llama 3.1 🐈
Dev.to · Francisco Luna 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Automated Away My Weekly Status Reports with Next.js and Llama 3.1 🐈
Context As a founding engineer, I was spending too much time explaining what I was doing...
Cursor vs GitHub Copilot: Which AI Coding Assistant Ships Faster in 2026?
Dev.to · pickuma 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Cursor vs GitHub Copilot: Which AI Coding Assistant Ships Faster in 2026?
We tested both AI coding assistants against a Next.js app, a Python CLI, and a Rust library migration. Cursor won on velocity. Here's the breakdown — and the on
Build with AI - APL GDG Pune
Dev.to · Aaryan Gupta 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Build with AI - APL GDG Pune
📊 Analyst Output: "Venue verified as Mumbai. Tool execution confirmed: Surface is a flat highway with...
Agentic coding isn't a trap. Lazy engineering is.
Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Agentic coding isn't a trap. Lazy engineering is.
The hottest take in developer discourse right now isn't about frameworks or languages. It's about...
Wordle Solver: How to Cheat at Wordle Without Feeling Guilty (A Developer's Guide)
Dev.to · XIAO FENG 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Wordle Solver: How to Cheat at Wordle Without Feeling Guilty (A Developer's Guide)
Most word game websites give you the same thing: type letters, get a list. But what if you could...
I built Threadbase to give AI coding tools a shared memory inside the repo
Dev.to · Aniket Rode 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built Threadbase to give AI coding tools a shared memory inside the repo
The biggest problem I kept running into with AI coding tools was not code generation. It was...
Calling CUDA from Go without cgo
Dev.to · Eitamos Ring 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Calling CUDA from Go without cgo
Go is great at infrastructure. It gives us fast builds, simple deployment, lightweight concurrency,...
A tmux sidecar for repeatable Claude/Codex workflows
Dev.to · Dmitry 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
A tmux sidecar for repeatable Claude/Codex workflows
I realized that I keep repeating almost the same workflow in my daily programming with Codex/Claude...
The 1-day-thrown-away rule: read the code before letting your AI write new code
Dev.to · Michel Faure 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The 1-day-thrown-away rule: read the code before letting your AI write new code
Six in the morning, looking at the output April twenty-ninth, six in the morning. The...
Building a Website with Anthropic's Generator-Evaluator Loop (Harness Engineering)
Dev.to · Nikhil tiwari 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building a Website with Anthropic's Generator-Evaluator Loop (Harness Engineering)
Building a Website with Anthropic's Generator-Evaluator Loop Anthropic recently published...
Day 5 — Kiro vs Cursor vs GitHub Copilot (Real Developer Comparison)
Dev.to · abdullah haroon 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Day 5 — Kiro vs Cursor vs GitHub Copilot (Real Developer Comparison)
After building a project in Node.js using Kiro’s spec-driven workflow, We started to clearly...
How I Stopped My AI Coding Assistant from Hallucinating (and Saved My Token Budget)
Dev.to · Krishna kant singh 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Stopped My AI Coding Assistant from Hallucinating (and Saved My Token Budget)
Every developer using tools like Claude Engineer, ChatGPT, or Lovable eventually hits the exact same...
I Stayed Up Until 3 AM to Build a Better Claude Code Guide Than the One With 52,000 Stars — Here's What I Found
Dev.to · vigneshwar 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Stayed Up Until 3 AM to Build a Better Claude Code Guide Than the One With 52,000 Stars — Here's What I Found
One night. One obsession. One repo that changed how I think about AI-assisted...
Where AI Coding Is Actually Headed (Not the Hype Version)
Dev.to · Vikrant Shukla 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Where AI Coding Is Actually Headed (Not the Hype Version)
The future of AI coding gets discussed in two registers: the utopian one where AI writes all the code...
I Use AI to Build. I Don't Let It Think for Me.
Dev.to · Orvi Das 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Use AI to Build. I Don't Let It Think for Me.
I have been building software with AI tools for about two years now. I ship with Claude Code every...
Building K-xpertAI: A Developer Assistant Powered by KX-NeuroCore & Gemma 4
Dev.to · Alkhassim Lawal Umar 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building K-xpertAI: A Developer Assistant Powered by KX-NeuroCore & Gemma 4
## Introduction At KingxTech, the goal is to build a complete AI ecosystem for developers — tools...
The Coding Paradox: Why You Need to Learn to Code Precisely Because Everyone Says You Don't
Dev.to · Ferdynand Odhiambo 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Coding Paradox: Why You Need to Learn to Code Precisely Because Everyone Says You Don't
The Coding Paradox: Why You Need to Learn to Code Precisely Because Everyone Says You...
A Developer's Guide to AI Inference Costs in 2026
Dev.to · Harry Floyd 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
A Developer's Guide to AI Inference Costs in 2026
GPU rental, API pricing, and the infrastructure math that determines whether your AI feature makes money.
The Hidden Reason AI Botches Your Specs (and the Layered Fix That Works)
Dev.to · Renato de Matos 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Hidden Reason AI Botches Your Specs (and the Layered Fix That Works)
I adopted Spec-Driven Development expecting the AI to stop making mistakes. It wasn't that...
I told my AI to build a feature. Did it? I had no idea.
Dev.to · Aming 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I told my AI to build a feature. Did it? I had no idea.
TL;DR — I tried to "manage" AI by having it write decisions, todos, and constraints into markdown...
Cut Claude Code Token Costs
Dev.to · speedy_devv 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Cut Claude Code Token Costs
Your Claude Code bill went up twice in 30 days. You felt it on the invoice before you understood...
Hello, Donna (A new Programming Language)
Dev.to · Nikolas Skyl 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Hello, Donna (A new Programming Language)
In the past few months, I have been designing and implementing a new programming language called...
Introducing React AI Stream: Unlock the Power of AI in Your Applications
Dev.to · devleo 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Introducing React AI Stream: Unlock the Power of AI in Your Applications
I'm excited to share a game-changing open-source library that's going to revolutionize the way you...