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Cursor AI Pricing 2026: Is It Worth $20/Month?
Dev.to · The Dev Brief 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Cursor AI Pricing 2026: Is It Worth $20/Month?
Cursor AI pricing has become one of the biggest developer discussions in 2026. With the Pro plan at...
How We Prevent Attendance Fraud Using GPS Verification
Dev.to · Victor Jatto 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How We Prevent Attendance Fraud Using GPS Verification
In many universities, seminars, and training programs, attendance systems are still surprisingly...
HolmesGPT vs K8sGPT: A 2026 Head-to-Head Comparison for SRE Teams
Dev.to · Siddharth Singh 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
HolmesGPT vs K8sGPT: A 2026 Head-to-Head Comparison for SRE Teams
Key Takeaways HolmesGPT and K8sGPT are both Apache 2.0, both CNCF Sandbox, and both...
Holy Typos, Batman! How I Built 'SpellJump'
Dev.to · Prakhar54-byte 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Holy Typos, Batman! How I Built 'SpellJump'
Hey everyone! 👋 “Kabhi kabhi lagta hai apun hi bhagwan hai,” especially when your code compiles on...
Tutorial: This AI Now Tells You if a Meeting Could Be an Email
Dev.to · Andrew Dugan 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Tutorial: This AI Now Tells You if a Meeting Could Be an Email
Key Takeaways DigitalOcean's Inference Router semantically routes prompts to the most...
Google Just Shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash. Here's What Developers Actually Need to Know.
Dev.to · Om Shree 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Google Just Shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash. Here's What Developers Actually Need to Know.
The Flash series has always been Google's answer to the speed-vs-intelligence tradeoff. With Gemini...
No-Code AI Automation Tools: An Honest Comparison
Dev.to · AdamVibe 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
No-Code AI Automation Tools: An Honest Comparison
Most no-code AI automation comparisons are written by people who've never shipped a single workflow...
Novix DeepSurvey for Smarter Research and Knowledge Discovery
Dev.to · novix .science 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Novix DeepSurvey for Smarter Research and Knowledge Discovery
How Novix DeepSurvey Is Changing Modern Research Workflows Research today requires faster...
AI-Powered Observability: Querying Telemetry in Plain English
Dev.to · pickuma 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI-Powered Observability: Querying Telemetry in Plain English
Observability platforms now let you ask questions of logs, metrics, and traces in natural language. Here's how the translation layer works, what it genuinely he
ChatGPT Exporter: Save Conversations to Word, PDF, and Markdown Locally
Dev.to · pickuma 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
ChatGPT Exporter: Save Conversations to Word, PDF, and Markdown Locally
A practical guide to browser extensions that export ChatGPT conversations to PDF, Word, and Markdown — covering format fidelity, privacy tradeoffs, and the tool
35 ChatGPT Prompts for Fundraising Managers: Raise More, Write Better, and Build Stronger Donor Relationships
Dev.to · ClawGear 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
35 ChatGPT Prompts for Fundraising Managers: Raise More, Write Better, and Build Stronger Donor Relationships
Fundraising managers juggle dozens of responsibilities at once — from cultivating major donors and...
I Tested 10 AI-Powered APIs for Developers So You Don't Have To
Dev.to · Yury 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Tested 10 AI-Powered APIs for Developers So You Don't Have To
Last month I needed to add AI features to two side projects. One required resume parsing (80+...
The only AI tools you actually need as a developer
Dev.to · Samaresh Das 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The only AI tools you actually need as a developer
If you're using more than two AI tools as a developer, you're probably doing it wrong. We're...
Form Responses Are the Missing Trigger for AI Workflow Automation
Dev.to · Lovanaut 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Form Responses Are the Missing Trigger for AI Workflow Automation
Most AI workflow automation discussions start from the wrong place. They start with a blank...
Why You Accidentally Built a 5-App AI Stack
Dev.to · ForgeWorkflows 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why You Accidentally Built a 5-App AI Stack
The Tab Problem Nobody Planned For It's 2026, and your browser looks like this: ChatGPT...
I Built a Fully Automated YouTube Channel That Uploads Every Day - Without Touching It
Dev.to · Shuvo 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Built a Fully Automated YouTube Channel That Uploads Every Day - Without Touching It
Every morning, a video goes live on my YouTube channel. I didn't film it. I didn't edit it. My...
Antigravity is Dead Long Live Antigravity.
Dev.to · Antonio Cardenas 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Antigravity is Dead Long Live Antigravity.
Google just dropped Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026—and in the same breath, it killed Gemini CLI,...
Eu quero Vibe: Codar! Mas a IA local me fez repensar a infraestrutura
Dev.to · Francis 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Eu quero Vibe: Codar! Mas a IA local me fez repensar a infraestrutura
Com mais de 11 anos de estrada no desenvolvimento de software, a gente aprende a cheirar o hype de...
AI Boosts SaaS Growth
Dev.to · Harisha P C 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AI Boosts SaaS Growth
Introduction to the SaaS Revolution The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry has...
Your Tech Stack Has an AI Problem: How to Audit and Fix It in 2026
Dev.to · Lycore Development 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Your Tech Stack Has an AI Problem: How to Audit and Fix It in 2026
The Stack That Made Sense in 2022 Might Be Working Against You Now Two years ago, the...
PasteAI: One MCP Tool Call, One Shareable Link
Dev.to · Tim Little 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
PasteAI: One MCP Tool Call, One Shareable Link
Have you ever asked Claude to write up an analysis, then had no good place to put it? I asked...
"I Got Tired of Rewriting 4 AI CLI Config Files. So I Put Setup Behind One Button"
Dev.to · CodeKing 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
"I Got Tired of Rewriting 4 AI CLI Config Files. So I Put Setup Behind One Button"
A short walkthrough of the CliGate dashboard flow that installs and configures Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and OpenClaw from one local panel.
PBIFORGE: The First AI Tool to Generate Full Power BI Dashboards from a Text Prompt
Dev.to · suddhasheel bhatt 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
PBIFORGE: The First AI Tool to Generate Full Power BI Dashboards from a Text Prompt
Until now, "AI-assisted" Power BI tools stopped at suggestions. PBIFORGE is the first to take a...
I made an extension that notifies you when Codex / Gemini / Claude finishes — got tired of tabbing back every 2 minutes to check
Dev.to · Rakshit Hooda 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I made an extension that notifies you when Codex / Gemini / Claude finishes — got tired of tabbing back every 2 minutes to check
This started because I kept doing the same annoying thing — run Codex, tell myself it'll take 2...
I Built a Voice Recorder Because Sometimes Typing Feels Too Slow
Dev.to · Bhavin Sheth 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Built a Voice Recorder Because Sometimes Typing Feels Too Slow
The Problem Wasn’t Writing It was the delay. Sometimes I’d have: A quick idea A...
How I Built a YouTube Shorts Brief Generator with PHP and the OpenAI API (in a Few Hours)
Dev.to · James Dudley (James) 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How I Built a YouTube Shorts Brief Generator with PHP and the OpenAI API (in a Few Hours)
I've been building a YouTube Shorts automation engine as a side project — the kind of system that...
How to Read Technical Docs in the AI Era: Distilled Reading
Dev.to · code plato 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How to Read Technical Docs in the AI Era: Distilled Reading
The Unfinished Docs Problem We're often told to read more technical documentation. But the...
Stop Spending Two Weeks Configuring Playwright. Use a Skeleton Built for AI Adaptation.🤖
Dev.to · Albert Alov 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Stop Spending Two Weeks Configuring Playwright. Use a Skeleton Built for AI Adaptation.🤖
Every SDET joining a new project goes through the same ritual. Run npm init playwright@latest. Spend...
Claude for Small Business: A Solo Founder's Honest Take
Dev.to · Max Mendes 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Claude for Small Business: A Solo Founder's Honest Take
Claude for Small Business: A Solo Founder's Honest Take On 13 May 2026, Anthropic launched...
I read the 49-comment OpenClaw meltdown and the real problem isn’t just OpenClaw
Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I read the 49-comment OpenClaw meltdown and the real problem isn’t just OpenClaw
A Reddit thread about quitting OpenClaw after 3.5 months, 1,300 hours, 5B tokens, and $700 exposed two separate issues: runtime fragility and the econ
I Built a Local AI Team to Stop My Side Projects From Dying
Dev.to · yuki uix 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Built a Local AI Team to Stop My Side Projects From Dying
My GitHub has a graveyard. Several personal projects, each following the same lifecycle: get an...
Knowledge Base Software for B2B Support: Architecture, API Design, and AI Readiness
Dev.to · Kumar Harsh 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Knowledge Base Software for B2B Support: Architecture, API Design, and AI Readiness
Most teams don't struggle to choose a knowledge base. They struggle to choose the right one for how...
From sysadmin to solutions engineer: why I'm spending the next year learning AI in production
Dev.to · Jay Thomason 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
From sysadmin to solutions engineer: why I'm spending the next year learning AI in production
I've been doing IT for over a decade. Started as an intern in 2012 configuring Cisco phones, spent...
I Built My First AI Infrastructure Package for Python — Introducing NeuroMesh AI 🚀
Dev.to · Amit Chandra 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Built My First AI Infrastructure Package for Python — Introducing NeuroMesh AI 🚀
After spending countless hours building AI systems, vector search pipelines, recommendation engines,...
Oracle AI Database 26ai: Relational Integrity, Vector Search, and AI-Ready Financial Workflows
Dev.to · Yurii Dobrytsia 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Oracle AI Database 26ai: Relational Integrity, Vector Search, and AI-Ready Financial Workflows
Why this article This article was originally published on Medium. I am cross-posting it...
Y a de petites choses qu'on peut coder soi-meme au lieu de payer un SaaS
Dev.to · h13ris 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Y a de petites choses qu'on peut coder soi-meme au lieu de payer un SaaS
LiMa, mode clair. 7 logiciels suivis, calcul automatique des jours restants. 100% local. LiMa c'est...
I built an AI proposal generator for freelancers in 30 seconds – here's what I learned
Dev.to · Enrique Rubio López 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I built an AI proposal generator for freelancers in 30 seconds – here's what I learned
The problem Every time I had to write a proposal for a client, I spent 2-3 hours on it....
Stop Bleeding Money on OpenAI: A Practical Guide to Slashing Your API Bills
Dev.to · Jordan Bourbonnais 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Stop Bleeding Money on OpenAI: A Practical Guide to Slashing Your API Bills
You know that feeling when you check your OpenAI billing dashboard at the end of the month and your...
Shopify AI Toolkit in Production: 19 Skills and Safe Execution (2026)
Dev.to · no7software 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Shopify AI Toolkit in Production: 19 Skills and Safe Execution (2026)
The April 2026 release of the open-source Shopify AI Toolkit gives Claude Code 19 dedicated skills to...
Best AI Tools for Developers in 2026 (Actually Worth Paying For)
Dev.to · Ali 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Best AI Tools for Developers in 2026 (Actually Worth Paying For)
The AI tool market in 2026 feels completely overloaded. Every week there’s a new “must-have”...
Remove text and watermarks from any image — one API call
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Remove text and watermarks from any image — one API call
Auto-detect text in any image and erase it cleanly. No hand-drawn masks, no manual ROI work — just a POST and a URL.
Plugging the Leaks With AI
Dev.to · Captain Kit Carson 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Plugging the Leaks With AI
Every business has money leaking out of it. Most owners just learn to live with the drip. I spent...
Beyond MCP: Handling 845 Tools with 92% less context bloat via Elemm
Dev.to · Vermillion 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Beyond MCP: Handling 845 Tools with 92% less context bloat via Elemm
Hi everyone, I’ve been diving deep into how AIs interact with tools and quickly hit a wall with the...
Source Score: Using AI to automate addition of new sources
Dev.to · Amit Singh 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Source Score: Using AI to automate addition of new sources
This post is a continuation of a microservice I've been building. You can check out my last post in...
AI Influencers: Tips & Trends (Week 19, 2026)
Dev.to · PalmVision 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Influencers: Tips & Trends (Week 19, 2026)
PalmVision AI - The ultimate all-in-one AI content platform with 50+ cutting-edge models. Create professional videos, images, voiceovers, lip sync & more from o
35 ChatGPT Prompts for Financial Planners (Client Conversations to Compliance Docs)
Dev.to · ClawGear 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
35 ChatGPT Prompts for Financial Planners (Client Conversations to Compliance Docs)
Financial planners live in a world of precision and trust — where the wrong word in a client...
35 ChatGPT Prompts for DevOps Engineers (Incidents, Docs, and Architecture Faster)
Dev.to · ClawGear 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
35 ChatGPT Prompts for DevOps Engineers (Incidents, Docs, and Architecture Faster)
DevOps engineers sit at the intersection of code, infrastructure, reliability, and developer...
Building Multi-Tier Translation Systems: A Developer's Guide to Content Quality Pipelines
Dev.to · Diogo Heleno 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building Multi-Tier Translation Systems: A Developer's Guide to Content Quality Pipelines
Building Multi-Tier Translation Systems: A Developer's Guide to Content Quality...