Applied AI
AI Tools & Apps
Reviews, tutorials and walkthroughs of the latest AI tools and apps
Skills in this topic
3 skills — Sign in to track your progress

Dev.to · Pranjal Srivastava
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
How I Built 65 Free Browser Tools in 2 Weeks Using AI (AstroJS + Cloudflare)
The Problem Every time I needed a quick tool online, the same loop: Search for free PDF...
Simon Willison's Blog
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't par

Dev.to · Shrutik
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building CoralTeams: An AI-Powered Operational Intelligence Platform with Coral
🌊 Introduction During the Pirates of the Coral-bean Hackathon, our team Hubble Telescope set out to...

Dev.to · Serhii Kalyna
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building in public, week 11: 143 pages indexed, a TinyPNG alternative in Rust
Week 11 of building Convertify a free image converter (Rust + Axum + libvips, Next.js SSG frontend)...

Dev.to · Mason K
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Pick a better video thumbnail automatically with FFmpeg, PySceneDetect, and CLIP
TL;DR We'll build a pipeline that takes any video file, extracts candidate frames with...

Dev.to · eternalsix
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
AI tools that respect your time
The AI Tools Tax: Why Most AI Tools Steal More Time Than They Save Last Tuesday I spent 47...

Dev.to · eternalsix
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
AI translation: post-editing best practices
AI Translation Post-Editing: What Nobody Tells You Until You've Burned a Client Last year...

Dev.to · INora
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Developer’s Guide to Translating Foreign PDFs (Text, OCR, and AI Workflows)
Hey DEV community! 👋 Ever been handed a technical spec, an academic paper, or legacy documentation in...

Dev.to · Venkata Hemanth Guddanti
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Observability Telemetry and Predictive AIOps
The Non-Negotiable Imperative: Architecting Predictive AIOps for IBM ACE/MQ The era of...

Dev.to · Ofri Peretz
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Same NestJS Prompt via Two AI Toolchains. One Returned 6 Security Errors. Here's What Both Missed.
Same prompt. Claude Sonnet 4.6 got 6 security errors from eslint-plugin-nestjs-security. Gemini 2.5 Flash got 2. Both models missed rate limiting on auth endpoi

Dev.to · Hiroto Yoshida
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I'm 15, Built My First Real Project in 4 Days, and Put It on Gumroad
I'm 15 and Built an AI Energy Dashboard with Next.js 15 + Groq Hey Dev.to! 👋 I'm a...

Dev.to · BLNCraft
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
5 .cursorrules Antipatterns Killing Your AI Productivity
Your .cursorrules file is probably not working the way you think it is. Not because Cursor is broken...

Dev.to · Wallet Guy
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Atomic Multi-Operations in Claude: MCP Batch Transaction Tools
Complex onchain operations in Claude often require multiple separate commands — check balance,...

Dev.to · Julian Hayes
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Automating Invoice PDF to CSV Conversion with Python
Managing invoices for freelance SEO projects can get repetitive fast, especially when you need to...

Dev.to · grinder-nl
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How Smart Contracts Actually Handle Poker Hands (A Field Guide)
I remember the first time I saw someone win a pot with 7-2 offsuit on a decentralized poker table....

Dev.to · zhongqiyue
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
When web scraping breaks: using AI to extract messy data
I spent three days building a web scraper for a client. Three days of carefully crafting CSS...

Dev.to · Jashraj shah
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Built and launched WebDoctor AI 🌐🧠
An AI-powered website intelligence platform that analyzes websites and turns diagnostics into an...

Dev.to · Olukoya iyiola
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I’m Building AR/XR Experiences for Nigeria Without ARCore or ARKit
Most AR/XR content online assumes you have: ARCore / ARKit flagship devices fast internet app store...

Dev.to · Alex Chen
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I Cut My AI API Bill from $420 to $28/Month — Here's Exactly How
Honestly, when I first checked my AI API bill last quarter, I almost choked. $420 a month. For what?...

Dev.to · PyNyx
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Why Pynyx Chooses Thinking Over Rote Memorization
A lot of learning systems today unintentionally train learners to memorize before they truly...

Dev.to · Jenuel Oras Ganawed
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
AI for science is becoming a builder workflow, not a lab demo
Google's Gemini for Science push signals a practical shift: AI tools are moving from one-shot answers toward research workflows that help builders investigate,

Dev.to · LayerZero
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Microsoft just canceled its Claude Code licenses. Read past the headline before you renew yours.
Microsoft just pulled its Claude Code licenses. The headline is loud — the real story is what every other company will do over the next 90 days. Three forces, f

Dev.to · eagerspark
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How I Cut My AI API Bill by 97% — A Practical Guide for 2026
How I Cut My AI API Bill by 97% — A Practical Guide for 2026 Honestly, i’ll be honest:...

Dev.to · Varad Khoriya
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I got a $100 AI bill. Then I found the $80,000 ones. So I built a kill switch.(2026)
A few weeks ago I woke up to a $100 charge from my AI provider. For a lot of people that's nothing....

Dev.to · Varsha Das
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I Stopped Dragging Boxes in Draw.io. Here's What I Do Instead.
Architecture diagrams shouldn't take longer than the architecture itself. Here's how I generate production-ready AWS diagrams and hand-drawn sketches with a sin

Dev.to · Kupokupo
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Ultimate Task Management: Notion x AI Workflow
Managing tasks in Notion is great, but updating statuses and prioritizing can become a chore. By...

Dev.to · eagerspark
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How I Slashed My AI API Bill by 92% in 2026 — A Cost Optimizer's Speed Benchmark Guide
Look, let me spill the beans right up front: I'm obsessed with saving money. Not in a cheap-skate...

Dev.to · ImgToolKit
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How I Built 100 Browser-Based Image Tools With No Server (FFmpeg WASM, PDF-lib, AI Background Removal)
When I started building ImgToolkit, the goal was simple: every image tool site I used either uploaded...

Dev.to · soy
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Claude Code Deep Dive: Motion Graphics, Dev Tooling & Trending AI Repos
Claude Code Deep Dive: Motion Graphics, Dev Tooling & Trending AI Repos ...

Dev.to · Alex Quach
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Flunes: turning 'it's broken' into real GitHub issues, via one link
A microsaas I built to fix the client-feedback-to-GitHub-issue pipeline. AI-structured, repo-aware, collaborators never touch GitHub.

Dev.to · Papa
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
WebMCP Might Be the Most Important Announcement at Google I/O 2026
Every few years a technology shows up that looks like a product but is actually a protocol. When that...

Dev.to · Jayesh Patel
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Building an Open MIT-Licensed Ephemeris Engine in C — JPL Moshier Ephemeris
For a long time, most of my work around astronomical and astrological software revolved around...

Dev.to · Ran Dror
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
AI Can Generate Interfaces on the Fly. But Users Still Need Orientation.
Why should software even have fixed interfaces anymore? Last week, Google announced new...

Dev.to · Слава Жуланов
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Building an on-chain alerts bot in Python without any blockchain library
PolySignal — my Telegram bot that watches Polymarket — has a small subsystem called chain_watcher. It...

Dev.to · Auke de Haan
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Turning text into diagrams with AI: field notes from documenting a side project
I spend more time than I want to admit redrawing architecture diagrams every time a service moves....

Dev.to · z z
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I built an MCP server that searches the web
MCP servers become a lot more useful when they can reach the internet. A file-reader is nice. A tool...

Dev.to · z z
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Connect your MCP server to Claude Desktop in 5 minutes
You built an MCP server. Now what? Here's how to wire it up to Claude Desktop so you can actually use...

Dev.to · Ubed Sheikh
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I was manually comparing two versions of a contract for 2 hours before I built this tool
A few months ago I was helping a friend review a revised freelance contract. The client had "made...

Dev.to · PixelAura Tech
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Ferrari AI fan app sees a brilliant 56% jump in race users
Most people heard "IBM and Ferrari have a new app" and moved on. But the actual numbers from one year...

Dev.to · binky
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
The AI Stack Trap: Why Seven Tools Make You Slower Than Zero
You're paying for seven different AI tools that can't talk to each other—and you're actually slower...

Dev.to · Dan Gurgui
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
A Month with DeepSeek: What Happened When I Replaced Claude Opus for Real Work
The Month I Swapped Claude for DeepSeek For the last month or so, I've been running a...

Dev.to · Thy Alpha
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Browser Extensions for Interview Help Are Dead. Here's What Replaced Them.
If you're still using a browser extension for interview assistance in 2026, I have bad news: you're...

Dev.to · w932635477-bit
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I Built 6 Free Developer Tools for AI APIs, Cron, Docker, and Self-Hosting
I keep running into the same friction points: "How much will this prompt cost on GPT-4o vs Claude?",...

Dev.to · Hrishika Malviya
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
From an Abandoned Hackathon Project to an AI Study Workspace 🚀
There’s a strange feeling that comes with opening an old project folder again. You look at the messy...

Dev.to · Marco Messina
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Telegram Bot Development Tools You Should Know in 2026
If you build Telegram bots, you spend more time than you'd like on tasks Telegram itself doesn't make...

Dev.to · 北小生
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
From Video Transcripts to Source-Grounded AI Notes: A Practical Look at Notesnip
Most AI transcription tools stop at the same place: they turn a video into a block of text. That is...

Dev.to · Jonathan Miller
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
From AI Code Generation to AI System Investigation
I Released AI DB Investigator - A Skill for Structured Database Analysis AI is very good...

Dev.to · sai pramod upadhyayula
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Building a Markdig Extension for DocFX: Remote Content Inclusion with AI Rewriting
The Problem Every Documentation Team Hits If you've worked on a documentation platform at...
DeepCamp AI