A developer reflects on the accelerating pace of AI-driven change in the tech industry, noting that the definition of competence is shifting faster than professionals can adapt. The post highlights gr…
Major League Hacking (MLH) and DEV are partnering with DigitalOcean to run Hacktoberfest 2026, which will focus on open-source and open-weight AI. The event will include over 300 in-person Fests and a…
A bug in Sentry's JavaScript SDK double-counts tool calls in streaming mode for Google's Gemini integration, recording each invocation twice with inconsistent parameter keys (`args` vs. `arguments`). …
A developer built Pawford Academy, a SwiftUI iOS app that helps dog owners track their puppy's training journey, featuring an AI-powered voice coach powered by ElevenLabs. The app, created for the DEV…
DEV has launched its first Education Track in partnership with Google AI, offering a structured learning path for developers to build and deploy web applications using Google AI Studio's 'Build apps w…
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts from counting pull requests to focusing on building with open artificial intelligence, aiming to reduce low-effort PRs and promote meaningful learning. The eve…
A developer has published a practical guide to sandboxing AI coding agents inside CI pipelines, providing a repeatable harness with a decision table, a sandbox script using Linux namespaces, and canar…
A developer announced the start of a learning and teaching journey on DEV, centered on building a Fake News Detection System using Python, Machine Learning, NLP, and Django. The project involves conce…
A developer encountered a frustrating bug when deploying a local e-commerce shop through Cloudflare, where the site appeared broken despite working locally. After troubleshooting with AI assistance an…
Pixel Chef AI, an interactive AI cooking companion, was created by developer Viva Yang for the DEV Frontend Challenge. The project uses a client-side AI decision engine to analyze flavors and nutritio…
Mahdi, a senior full-stack engineer and international STEM educator, has joined DEV to share architectural patterns, deployment templates, and tested source code. Over eight years, he has built system…
A developer who posted 31 articles on DEV found that a post with 300 views and zero reactions attracted search traffic as a technical manual, while a post with only 47 views and five comments sparked …
A developer argues that AI-generated artifacts make traditional portfolios unreliable, proposing a 'work trace' that documents the decision-making process behind a final product. The trace includes th…
A solo founder building a social platform discovered that their moderation system, designed to screen livestreams for extremism and crisis content, was running perfectly but never actually processing …
A developer analyzed 70 past DEV challenges and 542 winning submissions to create a data-driven playbook for the DEV Summer Bug Smash. Key patterns include entering both tracks, targeting Sentry-tagge…
A developer built the Dev Opportunity Radar website using Google AI Studio to make grants, fellowships, hackathons, and other opportunities easier to browse and search. The site complements the weekly…
A developer built Rivalry Radar, a live 'Heat Index' for World Cup rivalries that uses Google AI (Gemini) to score fan takes' sentiment and Snowflake to compute and rank the hottest matchups in real t…
A developer traced the journey of a single LLM API call from a keystroke through submarine fibre cables, data centres, and busy GPUs, explaining why the same prompt can feel instant one day and sluggi…
The DEV Weekend Challenge returns from July 9 to 13, offering a short-form, high-energy coding challenge for developers. Participants will have the full weekend to build, document, and submit their pr…
Context engineering has emerged as a critical discipline in AI development, moving beyond prompt engineering to manage an AI's working memory. Developers are grappling with the challenge that models l…