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a day ago

Let's be fair. The title of this post is confusing at first, but once you read it in full, I hope you will understand why. Do let me know if otherwise since this has been on my mind for some time. With that said, I did some reflection during the weekend since we are halfway through 2026. On paper, I

Best AI Code Review Tools for Catching Breaking Changes 🔥

a day ago

Hello Devs 👋 Most code review tools are good at finding syntax problems, style issues, and missing test cases. The harder problem is finding changes that look harmless in a pull request but later break another service, API consumer, or application. A renamed field, a modified function signature, or

I Wish I Had Started Documenting My Tech Journey Earlier

TL;DR For a long time, I told myself I would start documenting my journey later. I thought I needed better projects, more knowledge, or more confidence before anything I did was worth sharing. Looking back, I realize it was never really about documentation. I was afraid of being judged, afraid of ge

The Principle of Least AI

Why AI Alternatives Matter AI is prone to problems affecting its output: hallucinations, incompleteness, inconsistency, and bias. AI usage is costly, and the popular free services might require expensive paid plans or downgrade to sponsored light versions at any time. Source: image created by Ope

(new) Bifrost Edge: MCP Visibility and Control for Enterprise Teams and Beyond 🔥

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers have transformed AI from passive chatbots into action-capable agents. Claude can now execute tools, read files, query databases, and interact with your infrastructure. For developers, it's revolutionary. For security teams, it's a nightmare. The problem? MCP serv

Wiring AI Code Review into a Bitbucket + Jira Workflow

Hello Devs 👋 If your team uses Bitbucket + Jira, your workflow probably looks something like this: Pick a Jira ticket Create a branch Push code Open a pull request Get reviews Merge and close the ticket Pretty straightforward. But as projects start growing and more developers join the team, things

15 AI Stories Later, Some Honest Words

3 days ago

May 29 I wrote my first AI trainwreck story. June 18 I finished #15. People keep asking if this was some kind of "writing experiment" — it wasn't. I'm not that poetic. The truth is, nobody was reading what I wrote before. Scroll back to my early posts: AI agent setup notes, QA automation on a budget

Turing's Mirror - A Game About the Question We Still Haven't Answered

3 days ago

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Turing's Mirror is a browser game about the one question Alan Turing asked in 1950 that we still haven't answered: can you tell the difference between a human and a machine? You read 10 conversations. For each message, you decide: human or AI? Soun

Dev Opportunity Radar #4: Anthropic Fellows, $30K for Founders, and AWS She Builds

5 days ago

TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities, resources, communities, and interesting finds that I come across, with the goal of helping people discover things they might otherwise miss. This week's edition includes Anthropic's Fellows Program, Lea

Congrats to the Hermes Agent Challenge Winners!

5 days ago

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Hermes Agent Challenge! Over the past few weeks, the DEV community dove headfirst into one of the most exciting open-source agentic systems on the scene, and the submissions absolutely delivered. The range of what people built and wrote left us genuinel

Congrats to the Gemma 4 Challenge Winners!

5 days ago

We are so excited to announce the winners of the Gemma 4 Challenge! This is officially our most participated-in challenge to date, and the range of submissions made that obvious from the start. We saw a ten-year-old GPU-less laptop pushed to its limits, a $50-a-month OCR bill replaced by a local vis

Rejected by Google, Welcomed by Microsoft: A Journey Through Low-Level Grinding

6 days ago

There was a phase when Google was the only goal I could see. I pushed myself through endless DSA problems, system design basics, and constant practice. Every day was about improving, learning, and getting closer to that one dream offer. But when the moment of truth came, things didn’t go as expected

My First Week on DEV — Badges, Game Jams, and Way More Than I Expected

6 days ago

I joined DEV at the start of January, but it's only really been in the past week or so that things clicked into place — and looking back, it's been a lot more eventful than I expected for "week one." My original plan was simple: write a structured series covering iOS development with Swift and Swift

Who Here Has Worked with Legacy? The Longer You Wait, the Worse It Gets

6 days ago

I promised myself that starting this week I'd switch to lighter topics. But on Monday, my JSNation adventure officially came to an end, and I realized I hadn't written a single article about my talk yet. Since everything is still fresh in my mind, here we go! As for JSNation itself, I have mixed fee

How I use premortems with Claude and Codex

7 days ago

I started using premortems for a boring reason: I did not trust the default review question. When I ask a coding agent "does this plan look good?", the answer is usually useful but too polite. It finds reasons the plan can work. It notices a few edge cases. It gives me a clean list of improvements.

Welcome Thread - v380

7 days ago

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋 Come back next week to greet our new members so you can one day earn our Warm Welcome Bad

Ask a DEV Community Mod! 🚀

Disclaimer: Please read the full post before commenting. This post will be refined overtime, so I highly encourage to check back if there are any updates! Hey everyone! My name is Francis and I am a DEV user for 6 months. There is something I want to reveal... I am a DEV Community Moderator

How We Saved Big and Simplified Our Image Pipeline: Adopting bunny.net on DEV

Hey everyone, Ben here. If you’ve been following the journey of DEV and our open source project Forem, you know we’ve always been obsessed with web performance. Way back in the day, I spoke at Codeland about how to make your website so fast it goes viral in Japan, diving into the mechanics of edge c

How to Test a Food Delivery App: 30 Test Cases from Order to Doorstep

Every food delivery app has the same promise: you tap a button, food shows up at your door. Testing that promise requires covering everything between those two moments search, browse, cart, coupons, payments, tracking, delivery confirmation, ratings, and the dozen things that can go wrong at each s

A Company AI Flagged My Article As "Low Quality." I Ran the Numbers. Then I Ran Again.

A story about an AI content moderation system that flagged 347 posts since launch — and what happened when someone finally asked whether it was getting it right. Ever had an automated system judge your work without being able to explain why? Ever pulled the data behind an AI decision — only to find

I Got Flagged by Sloan. Sloan Is a Guy I Know.

Two weeks ago I published a piece explaining exactly why AI detectors are unreliable. Then Sloan flagged me. My argument was simple: AI detectors are probabilistic classifiers trained on distributional differences between human and AI writing. Dense, structured prose trips them constantly. The detec

My AI Agent Hit a Login Wall: BrowserAct Let It Ask for Help and Resume

👋 Hey there, Tech Enthusiasts! I'm Sarvar, a Cloud Architect who loves turning complex tech problems into simple solutions. I've worked with AWS, Azure, DevOps, Data, Analytics, Generative-AI and Agentic-AI building real systems for real companies. In this article series, I'll share what I've learn

I Asked AI to Write My Commit Messages It Was Embarrassing.

I asked AI to write a commit message for me last week The code change was simple. A bug fix One line, easy to explain in a single sentence if I'd bothered to think about it for ten seconds. The AI wrote: Updated stuff. Fixed things. Improved performance. That was it Four words of pure, unhelpful wea

Tailwind CSS4: Why Those Inline Styles Are Actually More Scalable - A Senior CSS Developer's Guide