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Building a game bot with machine learning
Dev.to · Lawrence Cooke 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building a game bot with machine learning
One of the things I enjoy about agentic coding is being able to work on those projects that sat...
SWE-bench Is Not Contaminated — But Its Test Files Were Public Years Before the Fixes
Dev.to · howcani howcani 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
SWE-bench Is Not Contaminated — But Its Test Files Were Public Years Before the Fixes
Every AI coding benchmark gets the same accusation eventually: "the model has seen the answers." For...
What Actually Happens When Whisper Runs in Your Browser?
Dev.to · dev truth 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
What Actually Happens When Whisper Runs in Your Browser?
A “browser-based transcription tool” can mean two very different things. In one version, the browser...
DeepSeek Harness: el harness abierto que hace lo que Claude Code no te deja tocar
Dev.to · Miller Correa 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
DeepSeek Harness: el harness abierto que hace lo que Claude Code no te deja tocar
Los agentes de código son todavía una tecnología relativamente nueva. Y aun así, casi todos venimos...
Ultimate Guide to AI software development services
Dev.to · All API 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Ultimate Guide to AI software development services
Unlocking Future Growth with Custom AI Software Development Services In today's rapidly...
Need 2 Participants in Software Architecture Challenge
Dev.to · Mohamed Bendjeddou 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Need 2 Participants in Software Architecture Challenge
Hey Dev, I want to participate in O'Reilly's Architectural Katas 2026: AI-Assisted Software...
I Built an AI Tool That Turns Flat Images into Editable Layers
Dev.to · Jesus Lopez 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Built an AI Tool That Turns Flat Images into Editable Layers
I Built an AI Tool That Turns Flat Images into Editable Layers A flat image can look...
How to write a DESIGN.md your AI will actually follow
Dev.to · Chaos Wang 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
How to write a DESIGN.md your AI will actually follow
A DESIGN.md only works if the machine reading it never has to guess. That is the whole craft of...
MCP C# Task Polling: Stop Infinite input_required Loops
Dev.to · Sukhpinder Singh 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
MCP C# Task Polling: Stop Infinite input_required Loops
MCP Tasks let a tool finish asynchronously, but they also introduce a failure mode that a normal...
Claude Code Can Now Run on Your Own Infrastructure: The Architecture Explained
Dev.to · Suraj Khaitan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Claude Code Can Now Run on Your Own Infrastructure: The Architecture Explained
Anthropic's new self-hosted environments move Claude Code cloud-session execution into your network,...
The Codex 5-Hour Limit Is Making It Practically Unusable
Dev.to · Jessica Doering 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Codex 5-Hour Limit Is Making It Practically Unusable
OpenAI recently brought back the 5-hour usage limit for Codex on Plus, and after actually running...
My Claude Code config costs 9,857 tokens before I type anything
Dev.to · Andrew Mazok 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
My Claude Code config costs 9,857 tokens before I type anything
I installed 107 skills, 38 agents and 15 commands into Claude Code over a few months. Standard stuff...
I taught my hand gestures to run an AI coding agent
Dev.to · Afonso Miguel Teixeira Januário 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I taught my hand gestures to run an AI coding agent
A few weekends ago I got annoyed at typing prompts into a terminal and decided the fix was,...
Diff the AI's Test Draft Before You Adopt It
Dev.to · Dakota Huang 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Diff the AI's Test Draft Before You Adopt It
Diff the AI's Test Draft Before You Adopt It An AI-drafted characterization test is a...
Building an AI Fairy Tale Generator with JavaScript, PowerShell, .NET, and Local Ollama (AdvantageBuilder Demo)
Dev.to · Advantage Builder 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building an AI Fairy Tale Generator with JavaScript, PowerShell, .NET, and Local Ollama (AdvantageBuilder Demo)
Recently I published a demo showing how AdvantageBuilder can orchestrate multiple runtimes —...
The Paste Is a Request: A Pre-Flight Check Before Your Code Leaves the Machine
Dev.to · Riley Lin 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Paste Is a Request: A Pre-Flight Check Before Your Code Leaves the Machine
Every time you paste a snippet into an AI coding tool, you are making a network request. The safest...
Prove AI Code Before You Merge: 9 Gates, One Script
Dev.to · Taylor Zhu 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Prove AI Code Before You Merge: 9 Gates, One Script
Every week there is a new thread about AI coding tools and a new story about an AI-generated patch...
My AI Refactor Was Slow. The Model Wasn't Guilty.
Dev.to · Dakota Lin 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
My AI Refactor Was Slow. The Model Wasn't Guilty.
Everyone talks about what developers do while AI codes. Mostly, we wait. So I measured the waiting....
Golden Cases Catch Silent Regressions: A Minimal Eval Harness for AI C++ Patches
Dev.to · Finley Li 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Golden Cases Catch Silent Regressions: A Minimal Eval Harness for AI C++ Patches
AI coding models have changed the default workflow. The model writes the first draft; the human...
The Review Gate: Filtering AI Code Before You Read It
Dev.to · Avery Lin 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Review Gate: Filtering AI Code Before You Read It
A solo founder pushes a branch at 9 PM. The model wrote the code. The tests pass. The founder stares...
Tried `anthropics/claude-plugins-official` Today: A Practical Claude Code Plugin Test
Dev.to · power zhong 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Tried `anthropics/claude-plugins-official` Today: A Practical Claude Code Plugin Test
Tried anthropics/claude-plugins-official Today: A Practical Claude Code Plugin...
Why I Decided to Stop Using Claude Code
Dev.to · Leon Martin 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why I Decided to Stop Using Claude Code
Claude is impressive, no doubt. But if you’re letting it do *all* your work, you’re sleepwalking into obsolescence.
Simon Willison's Blog 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Quoting Paul Dix
The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running
Node.js AI Summaries with Verifiable Transcript Citations
Dev.to · Shruti Saraswat 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Node.js AI Summaries with Verifiable Transcript Citations
Build source-bound AI summaries in Node.js with stable transcript IDs, Structured Outputs, citation validation, source hashes, and stale-evidence checks.
Why Strong Engineers Fail Coding Interviews: A Scorecard Autopsy
Dev.to · jidonglab 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Strong Engineers Fail Coding Interviews: A Scorecard Autopsy
An interviewer's breakdown of why strong engineers fail coding interviews, what the scorecard really measures, and how the debrief decides.
Let AI Write the Mac OS App Without Learning Swift
Dev.to · Brian Gan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Let AI Write the Mac OS App Without Learning Swift
AI keeps accelerating through the tech industry. Just like many other laid-off tech workers, I feel...
Idempotency Transaction Guards & State Locks in Interactive Generative AI UX
Dev.to · Humza Tareen 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Idempotency Transaction Guards & State Locks in Interactive Generative AI UX
How double-click transaction deduplication, cost ledger reconciliation, and strict state locks prevent duplicate billing and preserve user configuration in gene
Claude Code Surpasses GitHub Copilot: 90% of Developers Adopt AI Coding
Dev.to · Tidiane Stano 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Code Surpasses GitHub Copilot: 90% of Developers Adopt AI Coding
Agents — Analysis of JetBrains 2026 Developer Ecosystem Survey The landscape of AI‑assisted software...
Using an AST to validate AI-generated PostgreSQL before it runs
Dev.to · Nur Zaman 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Using an AST to validate AI-generated PostgreSQL before it runs
A practical approach to checking LLM-generated PostgreSQL with AST-based table, statement, and function allowlists in TypeScript.
Your AI Coding Agent Doesn't Have a Junior-Developer Problem. It Has an Amnesia Problem.
Dev.to · Alexandr Zaporojan 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI Coding Agent Doesn't Have a Junior-Developer Problem. It Has an Amnesia Problem.
How 41 codified laws, 22 specialist roles, and a file-based memory system stopped an autonomous...
Codex CLI with any model: the "codex router" setup in one config block
Dev.to · Felix 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Codex CLI with any model: the "codex router" setup in one config block
OpenAI's Codex CLI is a genuinely good coding agent, but out of the box it runs OpenAI models on...
Score Your Repo Before You Pick an AI Coding Tier: A Weighted Fit Test
Dev.to · Dakota Wu 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Score Your Repo Before You Pick an AI Coding Tier: A Weighted Fit Test
The core conclusion first: a free AI coding tier is the right default for a narrow set of workloads —...
Claude Code for iOS App Development: The Workflow, Not the Setup
Dev.to · Oleh Veheria 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Code for iOS App Development: The Workflow, Not the Setup
Every "Claude Code for iOS" guide stops at the same place: pin your Swift toolchain in CLAUDE.md,...
Debugging Is the Killer App for Free Model Tokens — Here's the Workflow
Dev.to · Dakota Liu 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Debugging Is the Killer App for Free Model Tokens — Here's the Workflow
Most developers treat free model tokens as a code generation budget. They ask for snippets,...
Making AI Coding Agents More Efficient: My Local Toolkit
Dev.to · Ammar Najjar 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Making AI Coding Agents More Efficient: My Local Toolkit
Giving AI coding agents more tools doesn’t necessarily make them more efficient. After using...
Why AI-Generated Code for Your Go Project Compiles But Still Needs a Rewrite
Dev.to · wenjianzhang 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why AI-Generated Code for Your Go Project Compiles But Still Needs a Rewrite
Why AI-generated code for your Go project compiles but still needs a rewrite A...
Building a Free, Local Coding Agent with Tauri, Rust, and Vue
Dev.to · ruvian fabrin 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Free, Local Coding Agent with Tauri, Rust, and Vue
I've been building Cerne Code — a free, open-source desktop coding agent that runs 100% locally....
A Claude Code Review Workflow That Saved 30 Minutes Per Engineer a Day
Dev.to · Oleh Veheria 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A Claude Code Review Workflow That Saved 30 Minutes Per Engineer a Day
Code review is where mobile teams quietly lose a day per engineer per week. Not writing reviews....
Free AI Coding Tier or Self-Hosted Stack: A Four-Constraint Decision Framework
Dev.to · Dakota Wu 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Free AI Coding Tier or Self-Hosted Stack: A Four-Constraint Decision Framework
The cheapest AI coding setup is rarely the cheapest. Free tiers look like a gift until a deadline...
The Best AI Coding Setup Is the One You Can Throw Away
Dev.to · Quinn Wang 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Best AI Coding Setup Is the One You Can Throw Away
The best AI coding setup I've used this year is the one I'm prepared to delete by Friday, and I don't...
I published AI research papers and have 6 YoE building backends. Why do AI coding agents make me feel completely dumb?
Dev.to · Talha Anwar 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I published AI research papers and have 6 YoE building backends. Why do AI coding agents make me feel completely dumb?
There is a running joke that AI researchers can't write production software, and backend engineers...
Claude Code Architect : Maîtriser l'IA pour coder plus vite et mieux
Dev.to · Franck PARIENTI 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Code Architect : Maîtriser l'IA pour coder plus vite et mieux
Découvrez comment devenir un Claude Code Architect grâce à notre formation. Boostez votre productivité et la qualité de votre code avec l'IA.
The Harvest Counterfire
Dev.to · nonasking 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Harvest Counterfire
This essay was written with heavy use of AI. Exactly how is disclosed at the end. This essay...
Case Study: A Gated Loop on Free Infrastructure — 3 Rounds to a Correct C++ Header Parser
Dev.to · Finley Zhou 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Case Study: A Gated Loop on Free Infrastructure — 3 Rounds to a Correct C++ Header Parser
The short version I asked a free model endpoint to implement a small C++ parser for...
Can We Automate the Work of a Software Engineer? The Story Behind HEALER
Dev.to · Олег 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Can We Automate the Work of a Software Engineer? The Story Behind HEALER
In my previous article, I wrote about X-Ray — an observability system that grew out of my work on...
OpenAI Rolls Out Flexible Codex Pricing for Business and Enterprise Teams
Dev.to · Ali Farhat 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
OpenAI Rolls Out Flexible Codex Pricing for Business and Enterprise Teams
OpenAI has formally rolled out a more flexible way for organizations to buy and use Codex. Eligible...
How to Build Real-Time AI Video Workflows with Server-Sent Events and Webhooks
Dev.to · Programming Central 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Build Real-Time AI Video Workflows with Server-Sent Events and Webhooks
The landscape of web engineering has shifted dramatically. Generative media workflows have graduated...
Claude Code Just Replaced Your Code Review — Here's Why That's Terrifying
Dev.to · xxxn3m3s1sxxx 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Code Just Replaced Your Code Review — Here's Why That's Terrifying
I watched Claude Code review a pull request in 30 seconds that would take me 2 hours. It found bugs I...