Welcome Thread - v 392

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Bidirectional Writeback for Apache Iceberg via Google Sheets: Serverless Lakehouse Console

Turn Google Sheets into a Fully Interactive, Differential ACID Mutation Console for Apache Iceberg...

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Serverless Multimodal Vector Search on Apache Iceberg via Google Apps Script

Turn Google Drive into an AI-Powered Lakehouse Vector Engine across Converted PDFs, Binary Images,...

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BoonFest: The Anti-Sloth Game Where Generosity Means Survival!

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built I built...

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My Grandmother Ran Ajo. I Built the Version Where the Pot Can't Walk Away

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built My late...

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The Unbreakable Shopping Cart: Pairing BlocSignal with Fast Immutable Collections (FIC) for Bulletproof Flutter Apps

Eliminate in-place mutation bugs, corrupted undo stacks, defensive copying overhead, and skipped Flutter rebuilds by pairing BlocSignal with fast_immutable_collections.

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Unifying Google Workspace and Apache Iceberg: Serverless Lakehouse Management

Turn Google Sheets into a Petabyte Lakehouse with Sub-Second ACID Queries. ...

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AI Engineering Is Easy. Changing How We Work Is Hard

AI engineering sounds fancy. New terms are everywhere: agentic development, AI-native engineering,...

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Join our DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition! $1,000 in Prizes Across FIVE Winners. Submissions Due September 7 at 6:59 AM UTC.

We're back with another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit into your...

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Kong AI Gateway 2.0 on Google Cloud: Securing GKE, Cloud Run, and Vertex AI(Agent Platform)

Most teams running on Google Cloud don't pick one compute model and stay there. Some services live...

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Taming Flutter Infinite Scroll (Part 2): Turning ScrollController into a Reactive State Machine with CubitSignalMixin

Discover how to eliminate Flutter StatefulWidget boilerplate and overcome Dart's single-inheritance wall by combining ScrollController with CubitSignalMixin and BlocSignalMixin for a 100% StatelessWidget UI.

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Your First Multi-agent system: A Beginner's Guide to Building an AI Trend finder with ADK

Welcome back to our series on building the ultimate AI research assistant for our AI agent podcast!...

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Your First AI Agent: A Beginner's Guide to Building an AI Trend finder with ADK

The world of AI agents is moving at lightning speed. Keeping up with the latest trends, new...

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I Built My First AWS Agent Workflow, and the Hardest Part Was Getting It to Stop Assuming Things

TL;DR I recently finished a project from Udacity's Future AWS Agent Engineer Nanodegree Program,...

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ChromeOS Lookalikes, Two Ways: One With Drivers, One Without

chromeos-boot holds two unrelated scripts under one name: stage seeds a real Crostini container from a private bucket, flex skins a bare-metal Debian desktop to look like one. The split exists because Crostini's guest kernel can't load the NVIDIA driver.

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Taming Flutter Infinite Scroll: Why 3 Lines of async* Missed the Point, and How BlocSignal Fixes It

Explore why using async* generators for infinite scroll pagination in Flutter hides subtle concurrency crashes, and discover how BlocSignal solves rapid scrolling race conditions streamlessly with droppable().

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AI-assisted genealogy

My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were...

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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply)

Do you ever feel like the AI world has moved forward a little too quickly? You hear about...

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💎 Introducing Community Gems: Celebrating Human Curation and the Best of Our Community

In an internet full of noise, infinite scrolls, and algorithmically generated content, finding...

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How to Write Reliable Rubrics for LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluations

Follow up to Part 1: How to Design AI Evaluations You Can Actually Trust At Google, we are...

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What is harness engineering and why should I care?

How do you ship a software product with 0 lines of manually-written code? A friend...

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Welcome Thread - v391

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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Hearing the Mountain's Roar: How Antigravity CLI's AI Agents & IoT Data Track Volcanic Shockwaves

Turning 29k home weather stations and Gemini AI agents into a 15-minute volcanic warning...

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Preptember is here!! Plan a Fest for your local community.

September marks the official start of Preptember, a month dedicated to organizers planning local...

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Three Gemma 4 Deployments on One T4G for Under $3: What the Runtime Changes, and What It Doesn't

vLLM, JAX and PyTorch serving the same Gemma 4 E2B checkpoint on the same AWS G5g GPU, on one harness and one statistic. The decode ranking reverses on boot time. Nineteen instances, four and a half instance-hours, under $3 - which is what let five wrong claims get caught.

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How to Design AI Evaluations You Can Actually Trust

As part of my work at Google, we are publishing a suite of Agent Skills for Google products and...

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Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill

A Claude Code skill that turns one markdown file into dev.to, AWS Builder Center, Medium and LinkedIn versions, checks them before they ship, and posts the ones with an API — plus the debugging tools for when a destination mangles something.

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The job description already changed. We're not coders anymore, but couriers.

re: Couriers, Not Coders (Syntax Isn't The Edge Anymore) ...

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Automate Flutter's New Split Package Migration with AI Agent Skills

How to use dart-sdk-skills to empower your AI coding agent to seamlessly migrate Flutter projects to standalone material_ui and cupertino_ui packages.

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Native CORS support on GKE Gateway: Offloading cross-origin policy management to infrastructure

Offload cross-origin preflight handling and header injection to Google Cloud Load Balancing with native CORS support on GKE Gateway.

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Overcoming Dart's Single Inheritance Wall: Composable CubitSignalMixin & BlocSignalMixin in Flutter

Discover how CubitSignalMixin and BlocSignalMixin allow any existing Flutter controller, domain repository, or enterprise class to gain full reactive state container capabilities without occupying its single inheritance slot.

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What should the next Weekend Challenge theme be??

The next DEV Weekend Challenge launches next week, and we have some ideas up our sleeves, but we...

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Grand Central Station: Why BLoC, Riverpod, and BlocSignal Are Now True Peers

Discover why Flutter state management is no longer an all-or-nothing choice. Explore how BlocSignal, Classic BLoC, and Riverpod now operate as first-class bidirectional peers at the Grand Central State Terminal.

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Unlocking workload rightsizing visibility on GKE: How VPA decision logs bring observability to autoscaling

Learn how to troubleshoot and audit GKE Vertical Pod Autoscaler actions with structured decision logs in Cloud Logging.

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Stop Wrestling with ASR: The Complete Guide to Gemini 3.5 Transcribe 🎙️

You’ve probably used Gemini to analyze hours of video, summarize podcasts, or answer questions from...

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Kubeflow Without Kubernetes? Deploy a Complete MLOps Suite in 60 Seconds with Gubernator

Run JupyterLab, MLflow, MinIO S3, and Ollama Inference on a lightweight cluster using pure Docker Compose and <2GB RAM.

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Two-step control plane upgrades in GKE: How minor version rollbacks work under the hood

Learn how GKE decouples binary rollouts from API finalization to safely test and roll back Kubernetes minor version upgrades.

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Cross Cloud A2A Agent Card Field Comparison

Comparing Agent Cards with A2A - This tutorial aims to fetch the agent card from A2A agents running...

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The agent posted successfully. To the wrong account.

Back in July I wrote about what it takes to wire an AI agent into social platforms: six OAuth flows,...

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Vector Search Is Still the Memory Layer Agents Actually Need

When I was working on Vector Search with JavaScript, vector search was a hot topic. By the time the ...

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[Go in Practice] Writing Modern Go with AI: Testing JetBrains go-modern-guidelines and Refactoring a 1,039-line main.go

Background In the AI era, even I delegate most of my code optimization or writing tasks...

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FutureBuilder and StreamBuilder as Anti-Patterns: Why Your Async Boundary Should Be Far Away From Your Views

Discover why using FutureBuilder and StreamBuilder inside Flutter widget trees breaks separation of concerns, triggers accidental refetches, creates layout shift cascades, and hinders testability—and learn how to quarantine async at the perimeter using AsyncSignal and BlocSignal.

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Introducing AI Disclosure on DEV: Tools for Nuance, Clarity, and Better Feeds

We're introducing structured AI disclosure tiers to foster transparency, preserve human connection, and give you control over your reading experience.

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I Counted the Attack Vectors in Our AI Stack and Now I Can't Sleep

so a while back i did something i do not recommend before bed. i counted the vendors in a normal...

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Welcome Thread - v390

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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Taking control of cluster security: A deep dive into GKE ClusterNetworkPolicy

Discover how GKE ClusterNetworkPolicy enables platform teams to establish global security guardrails without hindering developer agility

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What Do You Do While AI Codes?

AI coding agents leave you with 5-to-20-minute gaps all day. Five real ways I fill them — and the one "quick" habit that makes you the bottleneck.

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AI Evals at a Glance: Heatmaps for Stakeholders

Visualizing AI evals with Inspect Viz Welcome back to our blog series on running,...

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comiCSS #255: Yellow

comiCSS cartoon for August 24, 2026

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Tech webinar: How to control costs & measure ROI for Claude Code on GCP - 9/1 12pm PT.

If your team is running or planning to deploy Claude Code on Google Cloud, managing spend and...

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The data is in: AI is how developers learn now

AI is now the most common way that new developers learn. We all knew AI was having an impact on...

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Bridging the AI Cutoff: Teaching Coding Agents Every Dart Feature from 1.0 to 3.14

How to eliminate LLM training cutoff gaps in Dart and Flutter, modernize legacy codebases, and install open agent skills with a single command.

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HTML is getting cool again: Meet the Invoker Commands API

For years, frontend development has had a slightly embarrassing relationship with HTML. We all read...

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When to Use Bloc vs. Cubit vs. Signal: An Architectural Decision Guide

Stop guessing how to structure your Flutter state. Here is a definitive, 4-tier decision rubric comparing raw Signals, CubitSignal, BlocSignal, and persistence mixins.

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Hacktoberfest 2026: AI belongs to everyone

We have some news we're excited to share today: Major League Hacking (MLH) and DEV are partnering...

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Greatness Is Forged by Limitation

Can't believe I spent 2 weeks writing this. Last week, I gave a talk at a Cursor community event...

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Welcome Thread - v389

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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Coding agents got boring the moment we built a really good one.

MESSAGE FROM BACKBOARD.IO Co-Founder Rob Imbeault: Coding agents got boring the moment we built a...

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Git Gud!

You heard me. Alright, that was mean lol. Though based on the title, you probably already knew the...

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[Dev Log][Python] Create short videos from photos and clips with Gemini 3.7 Flash: ReelCraft

Preface: It all started with a misunderstanding. I noticed a new page in the Gemini API...

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Join our DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition! $1,000 in Prizes Across FIVE Winners. Submissions Due August 17 at 6:59 AM UTC.

We're back with another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit into your...

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It's always Doom https://ood.dev/posts/doom/

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Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU

A field report on serving Gemma 4 E2B under vLLM on AWS G5g — the only aarch64 + SM 7.5 hardware there is. No published build covers that combination, AWS quietly solves half of it, and the thing that actually blocks you is 64 KiB of shared memory.

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I Stopped Trusting AI Agents With Tools. So I Built a Gatekeeper.

Update 08/15 0.2.0 Released github.com/deghosal-2026/agent-tooltrust · pip install agent-tooltrust...

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Do I Still Need a Monkey Patch for Gemini Live?

No. And deleting 187 lines of it was the single biggest benefit of moving to ADK 2.x — but it was not...

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Riverpod to BlocSignal: Incremental Migration and Zero-Codegen Signals for Flutter

Learn how to trial or incrementally migrate from Riverpod to BlocSignal with zero code generation, fine-grained signal graph reactivity, and bidirectional interop.

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Managed Inference on Google Cloud: Pairing the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with Cloud Run

Learn how to run managed AI inference on Google Cloud by pairing the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with Cloud Run — with architecture, code, deployment, and security explained step by step.

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Welcome Thread - v388

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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Bug Smash: restoring dropped Gemini chat config in Sentry's JavaScript SDK

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. ...

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Latency vs. Tokens: What I Learned Optimizing an Agent with Gemma (and What Didn't Work)

I'd been waiting for more than 30 minutes. The terminal just sat there, blinking, without returning a...

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How Many Introductions Away Are You From Pedro Pascal? A Practical Introduction to Graph Search

I was watching The Mandalorian the other day when it struck me that I don't know Pedro Pascal, which...

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Hey all! I’m Jem, the DEV Community Program Coordinator

It feels good to finally be writing this. I've been working part-time behind the scenes at DEV for...

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I Joined dev.to because...

Why not? Just kidding, there is more to it. Just thought it flows well with the title...

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Backend Engineer (Me) Ships a Browser Game With One Unintentional System Requirement: My Monitor

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. Prefer...

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Agent Sandboxes: Giving AI Agents Their Own Little Linux Box (And Why You Should Care)

Sourced from: GKE Agent Sandbox docs, kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox So here is the thing. We...

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linkedSignal() Writes Back: A Trace Through the Reactive Graph 🔍🚀

Let's be honest: linkedSignal() always had a bit of a split personality. It read beautifully from...

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General Challenge Updates Moving Forward

Hey all, as part of our expanding challenge program we want to update and clarify some challenge...

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Serving Gemma 4 2B on a Single TPU v5e Chip with MCP and Antigravity CLI

This article is the v5e follow-on to the v6e-1 debugging guide. Same MCP tooling, same Antigravity...

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Welcome Thread - v387

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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Exploring Form Management Patterns in Flutter with BlocSignal

Master form handling in Flutter with BlocSignal. Learn how to separate Primary vs. Derived state using computed signals, compare 3 clean form architectural patterns, and pick the right one for your app.

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Kiro Crew: The Next Frontier

I enter the bridge of my ship, the Kiro Enterprise. I see my crew ready for my command. The agent...

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How to Build a Local AI Workspace Like PewDiePie's Odysseus: Hardware, Models, and Cost

A practical, source-backed guide to building a local AI workspace like PewDiePie's Odysseus, including VRAM tiers, realistic budgets, model runtimes, installation steps, and security advice.

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Your RAG copilot can't count — stop letting it try

Your RAG copilot can't count — stop letting it try A user asked our document-search...

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Congrats to the DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Winners!

We are excited to announce the winners of our DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition! The prompt was...

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Skills vs MCP: How AI tools have evolved

Eighteen months ago, MCP was the thing. Every demo and chatbot connector was running on MCP under the...

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Does it still make sense to learn how to code?

Does it still make sense to learn how to code? This is a question I’ve been thinking about a lot...

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Gubernator Weekly Update: CoreDNS Aqueducts, SRE Stack, Network Topology & Cluster Auto-Updates!

Gubernator Weekly Update: CoreDNS Aqueducts, SRE Stack, Network Topology &amp; Cluster...

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Data, Context & RAG Lineage Governance for Enterprise AI Agents

A deep-dive architectural guide to query-time ABAC, cryptographic lineage, and outbound payload sanitization in agentic RAG systems.

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One TPU Chip, Eight Agents: Serving Small Agent Workloads with Raw JAX

Cloud TPU v6e-1 (ct6e-standard-1t, one v6e chip, 32 GB HBM), GCE flex-start, europe-west4-a. vLLM...

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Amazon Bedrock Agents Orchestrating Google ADK over A2A

This article explains how to build and test a cross-cloud currency agent. An Amazon Bedrock master...

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Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲

We're back with another Frontend Challenge, and this time we're hungry! 🍜🥧 Running through August...

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What is current your "daily driver" coding model? (July 2026)

Fable 5 at Max effort? OpenAI's gpt-5.6? The latest Gemini models? Perhaps Kimi K3 or other...

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Welcome Thread - v386

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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Can Google ADK Talk to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime? A Cross-Cloud A2A Benchmark

This article provides a step-by-step guide to building and testing a cross-cloud currency agent. A...

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Building AI Agents with the Kotlin Agent Development Kit (ADK)

This tutorial builds a starter "Hello World" style agent using Kotlin and the native Kotlin version...

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Bug Smash isn't glamorous and that's what I love about it.

We kicked off DEV's Big Summer Bug Smash on July 14, and I've been waiting to write this post since...

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DevRelCon, Adult Summer Camp, and My First Time Speaking

There’s something about DevRelCon that feels a little like adult summer camp. It’s immersive,...

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I had two weeks, an 8-foot keyboard, and a Wordle Workflow

A Wordle clone, an 8-foot keyboard, and a holographic fan display made Temporal's Durable Execution visible at AI Engineer World's Fair.

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Your Face on a World Cup Sticker: Our Nano Banana Story

There is something timeless about opening a pack of football stickers. You never know which player,...

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React 19's useActionState Showed Me Why Disabling My Submit Button Was Never Enough

Every form I ever shipped before React 19 needed the same three pieces of state, and I wired them up...

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Passkeys Explained Simply

You’ve probably seen that little prompt that says “Sign in with Face ID” or “Use a passkey” instead...

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Can Google ADK Talk to Microsoft Foundry on Azure? A Cross-Cloud A2A Benchmark

This article provides a step-by-step guide to building and testing a cross-cloud currency agent. A...

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Switching Tracks in BlocSignal: The Universal State Switchyard for BLoC, Riverpod, and Provider

Stop derailing your Flutter apps! Learn how BlocSignal acts as a central railway switchyard bridging BLoC, Riverpod, and Provider synchronously without microtask stream latency or heavy code generation.

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Auditing Agent Skills: A Threat Model for the Next Generation of AI Package Managers

Let me start with a question. If a stranger handed you a USB drive and said "plug this in, it just...

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I Built Something Good With AI. Now Some Developer Communities Don't Want to See It.

I recently tried to share an open-source project I've been working on called Open Vectorizer. It's a...

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Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Scaling AI Safety Research for a Multi-Agent World For the past decade, we've focused on making...

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Teaching Google Antigravity to Paint: A Stateful Image-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

How nb2lite-skill-agy packages Google's gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image as an Antigravity skill + MCP server — with multi-turn stateful edits, a simple install guide, and a dogfooded cover image.

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Teaching Antigravity to Direct: A Stateful Video-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

How omni-skill-agy packages Google's gemini-omni-flash-preview as an Antigravity CLI skill + MCP server — what Omni Flash actually does, a field guide to all eight tool calls, multi-turn stateful edits, an idiot-proof install guide, and a one-tool-call path to YouTube.

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Zero to Multi-Region: High Availability Serverless with Cloud Run and Cross-Region Failover & Failback

Google just made multi-region Cloud Run significantly easier. Here is the full picture; what changed,...

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Teaching Codex to Paint: A Stateful Image-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

How nb2lite-skill-codex packages Google's gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image as a Codex skill + MCP server — with Codex-native install paths, stateful edits, and a dogfooded cover.

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Teaching Claude Code to Direct: A Stateful Video-Editing Skill Built on Gemini’s Interactions API…

Teaching Claude Code to Direct: A Stateful Video-Editing Skill Built on Gemini’s...

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Better than Next.js? Is Rust Finally Ready for Full-Stack Web Development? Introducing Topcoat

There is a super-new Rust Web Framework in town, and it's name is Topcoat Rust is already a solid...

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Loop Engineering: How to Stop Your Agent Reward-Hacking Its Own Checks

You gave the agent a failing test and told it to get the suite green. It came back green. Then you...

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New Gemini models dropped https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/

3.6...

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Gemini 3.6 Flash & 3.5 Flash-Lite: Developer guide

Gemini 3.6 Flash (gemini-3.6-flash) and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (gemini-3.5-flash-lite) are generally...

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Google Cloud Labs: Accelerate AI with Cloud Run

Moving Beyond the Prototype The AI landscape has shifted. While "vibe coding" with tools...

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Gemma 4 E2B on a Single TPU v6e Chip: A Serving Deep Dive

What it took to deploy, why the QAT checkpoints refuse to load, and what one flex-start v6e chip is actually worth — measured live.

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tpu-management: a Claude Code skill for running Gemma 4 on Cloud TPUs

A Claude Code skill + MCP server that provisions Google Cloud TPU capacity, serves Gemma 4 with vLLM, benchmarks it, and tears it down — installable in one command.

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Gemma4 DevOps In Action

In the last entry I got Gemma-4's 128-expert MoE running on an inf2.24xlarge and signed off with...

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Context Is King: Rethinking Domain Ownership, Product, and the "Spec Phase"

If you’ve spent any time recently writing detailed product requirement documents or meticulously...

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AI And Code Ownership: Who Is Responsible For Generated Code?

Imagine your AI assistant just produced 200 lines of code. Legally, you may not own a single line of...

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From Apple Health Data to Clinical Storytelling: Building an AI-Powered Report with Python and Gemini

Introduction At recent technology conferences, one topic has caught my attention: every...

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I've Spent 10+ Years in Software Engineering. After Sickness, Burnout, and a Layoff, I'm Rebuilding My Career. Ask Me Anything

Hi, I'm Cesar, a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience. In 2023, I got sick and...

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Five Gemma-4 models, one accelerator: what porting E2B 31B to AWS Inferentia2 taught me

I ported the whole Gemma-4 family — E2B, E4B, 12B, 31B, and the 26B-A4B MoE — to run on...

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Hey DEV, I'm Tobore. Let's actually connect.

Hey DEV, I'm Tobore. Let's actually connect. I've been on here for a while now, mostly writing and...

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I burned through thousands of AI tokens. Then a friend did it for free

(yep, kinda clickbait, just for the funsies 😊) At the beginning of the year, I relaunched my...

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What is an "agentic harness," actually?

I've been hearing the word "harness" thrown around a lot lately. I assumed it just meant "the IDE" or...

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Did You Know TLDs Can Be Websites?

You've probably registered a domain with Route53 or another popular registrar. You pick something...

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Claude might be saturating your machine

My laptop was sitting idle with the fan at full tilt. Nothing was running that I knew of. The culprit...

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DiffusionGemma: The Developer Guide

Following our announcement in our launch blog post, we are sharing this developer guide to help you...

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Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs

Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories track. There was a file in my repo called...

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My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs

Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The...

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TPU Deployments with Gemma 31B, v6e-8, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...

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Welcome Thread - v384

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026

At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around...

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DEV’s Big Summer Bug Smash is now LIVE! Share $5,000 in cash prizes, skateboards, and more across 20+ winners. 🐛🐞🪲

Today is National Be Nice to Bugs Day in the U.S. and we’re thrilled to launch our Big Summer Bug...

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Building a Hybrid Docker Orchestrator in Go: The Journey from Single VM to Multi-Node Cluster

What if you could combine the native simplicity of Docker Compose with the decentralized targeting...

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Chasing the Sentry prize for DEV's Summer Bug Smash? Let us know what questions you have.

DEV just kicked off their Big Summer Bug Smash, an event all about fixing bugs and optimizing...

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How I made a Rust hot path 27x faster, and the AI fix I refused to merge

Two years ago I open-sourced KeyEcho, a small desktop app that plays a mechanical-keyboard sound the...

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This is remarkable https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack

I...

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26B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE g2-standard, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Compute Engine hosted...

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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/13/http-gets-a-query-method-so-complex-searches-can-stop-pretending-to-be-post/5270192

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4B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Compute Engine hosted...

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I Finally Built the Dev Opportunity Radar Website ❤️

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition 📌 TL;DR I found this challenge on the...

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The Myth of the Post-Documentation Era

There is a growing sentiment in engineering circles right now that documentation is a relic of the...

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Building an Agentic FinOps Platform — Development Environment Setup, Google Antigravity, MCPs and Skills, and ADK Bootstrapping with Agents CLI

TL;DR — This article is going to be jam-packed with useful information, tips, tricks and hacks for...

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A lot of good points here https://antirez.com/news/169

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Porting Gemma-4 (2B / 4B / 12B) to AWS Inferentia2

A field report on running Google's Gemma-4 on AWS Inferentia2: mixed attention heads, the vLLM / optimum-neuron / NxD dead-ends, and the neuronx-cc compiler limits.

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2B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Compute Engine hosted...

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Context bankruptcy: The case for strategic forgetting for AI Agents

Most of us have seen a coding agent fail to complete a task we know it can do. We just don't...

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Is It Ethical to Post and Ask About Circuits on Dev.to?

I’ve been thinking about sharing some electronic circuit posts on Dev.to — small circuits, DIY...

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Join our DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition — $1,000 in Prizes Across FIVE Winners! Submissions Due July 13 at 6:59 AM UTC.

Hello! We're kicking off another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit...

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Guarding the till while autonomous data agents do the digging

Autonomous agents are genuinely good at answering messy business questions. Give one an LLM and a set...

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Return on Attention: Why AI Code Reviews Are Wearing Us Out

PR volume went up, ticket quality didn't, and the gap got filled with LLMs on both sides of the review: bots reviewing, bots replying, bots occasionally arguing with bots about priorities that only existed in a teammate's head. Our CEO named the actual problem, and it's bigger than code review.

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Congrats to the June Solstice Game Jam Winners!

We are so excited to announce the winners of the June Solstice Game Jam, our celebration of the...

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Should I quit IT or just live through the burnout?

Some of you may have noticed I disappeared a bit from the community over the last couple of weeks....

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Debugging Deployments with Gemma 4B, TPU v6e-1, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...

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Debugging Deployments with Gemma 2B, TPU v6e-1, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...

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✨Cool Effects, TTS, and Fun Animations (AI Avatar v15: VS Code and Chrome Extension)

Intro AI Avatar is a completely free app that lets your VRoid (VRM) 3D avatar animate in...

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Debugging Deployments with Gemma 4B, TPU v6e-4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...

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Master Local Fine-Tuning with "gemma-trainer"

Take control of your AI models with our newest skill, designed to make local fine-tuning efficient.

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A Third Brain for your Second Brain

The concept of the "second brain"/"knowledge base" is one of my absolute favorite nerd snipes of all...

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Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Your Agent

Selecting the right abstraction layer is not a new problem in software. It's common to have some...

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The Conspiracy Big Software Engineering Doesn't Want You to Know

Buckle up, gang — it's conspiracy theory time. I've had this theory percolating in the back of my...

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Protect Yourself, Mesh Yourself

In my last post, my SSH keys moved off disk and into 1Password. This one is about the network those...

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Congrats to the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Winners!

We are so excited to finally announce the winners of the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge, our...

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Let Us Be Free

Nearly half a century ago, the free software movement made a demand that was both technical and...

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18 Hot Takes On Where AI is Headed Next

by Peter Yang, Behind the Craft Today, I want to share 18 hot takes on where I think the AI market...

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How Docusign is Bringing Contract Table Extraction to Production with NVIDIA Nemotron Parse

By Hiral Shah, Senior Director, Product Management, Docusign A major recurring theme among the...

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Letting the DEV Community Weigh in on the Topics of AIE

I’m at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco, where the vibes are enthusiastic. However,...

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Without Structure

“Without structure, AI makes code worse.” - Tereza Tížková AI is a supercharger, not a magic wand....

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These Founders Skipped Graduation To Be Here

When we met James Yang and Anish Paleja on Monday morning, The Daily Context team simply thought,...

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I Tried to Escape LeetCode for 2 Years (But Here We Are)

Seriously, LeetCode in 2026? Everyone is saying HackerRank just killed LeetCode, and yet here I am,...

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From Harness Engineering to Evals:

I’m at the AI Engineer conference in San Francisco this week. The event has every major brand-name...

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Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding

I’ve been covering Warp for a couple of years now, and its rapid evolution from a command-line...

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My First Year at DEV Recap

I heard about DEV a while back from a former colleague who was posting regularly back then. She won a...

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Forward Deployed Engineers and the future of software engineering

Cover Image: Sierra’s Natalie Meurer at the AI Engineer World’s Fair today. Natalie Meurer is Head...

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Play today’s game from Issue #2 of The Daily Context!

Yesterday, we kicked off our physical newspaper, The Daily Context, at the AI Engineer World’s Fair...

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You Don’t Always Need The Frontier

Workshops at this year's AI Engineer World's Fair shifted noticeably away from RAG and prompt...

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The Future Of AI Is Local And Open

There’s a specific moment that happens at every single hackathon. It’s usually around 2 or 3 a.m.,...

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Gemma and sandboxing cause a stir at the World's Fair

As the AI Engineer World’s Fair kicked off officially on Monday, the halls were filled for the...

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This Is Software’s iPhone Moment

In 2007, humans took roughly 85 billion photos a year. Photography was a specialized craft that...

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Someone Else Pays for Your AI Access

you probably didn't think about this when you signed up. you entered your card details, verified...

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Need a break? Play today's game from The Daily Context.

We (at DEV and MLH) are covering AI Engineer's World Fair by printing a physical newspaper called...

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Welcome to AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026

Welcome to the first edition of the AI Engineer World’s Fair newspaper! On behalf of the organizing...

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My commit message said "You've hit your session limit"

How I ended up running a local LLM to generate my git commit messages

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The Model Does Not Need Memory. The Situation Does.

I think I was asking the wrong question. For a while, the question was simple: does memory make...

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What Actually Happens When You Call an LLM API

you've felt it. you type a prompt, hit send, and the response starts streaming in under a second....

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What's Next for AI?

I have been writing about AI for quite a while now, but this is probably the first time I genuinely...

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Never forget to enter the Stern Grove lottery again!

Browser automation with Playwright, Python, GitHub Actions, and Entire to auto-enter San Francisco Stern Grove concert lotteries each week!

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Not Enough SMEs or Customers to Make Your Evals? Make Some!

How to build grounded, validated user personas and turn them into agents that generate eval data, for when you cannot reach real users or SMEs yet.

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Lite-Harness SDK

Unified API to swap AI coding harnesses like Claude Code and Codex

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Did you want more Claude on Cloud? ☁️ Let's talk about Securing Agents at Scale

Did you want more Claude on Cloud? Well, look no further. We have something for you happening today...

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Cognitive Pong: An Open Source Arena Where AI Agents Compete, Learn, and Train

An open source experiment exploring whether structured competition between AI agents can produce better reasoning, training data, and eventually better models.

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Welcome Thread - v381

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're...

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Function Names in JS Can't Contain Spaces, Right?

WRONG! Despite the widespread belief that function names in JavaScript MUST follow the...

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Extending a Rust MCP/A2A Currency Agent with A2UI

Building an Agent with Rust,A2A, MCP, and A2UI This tutorial aims to extend and test a...

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How My AI Agent Hacked Its Own Permissions (And What It Taught Me)

Have you ever tried to build an automation that works so well it bypasses the very rules you set for...

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I Am Fired Up Again

A personal reflection on getting fired up again, chasing financial stability, building income that can outlast a job, and still loving the work I do today.

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Debian Packages

Ubuntu OS (Operating System) is a distribution of Linux OS and is a derivative of Debian OS which is...

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12B Gemma 4 Deployment with NVIDIA Blackwell 6000, QAT, MTP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud Run hosted GPU...

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AI found 300 WordPress plugin zero-days in 72 hours. I build plugins. Here's what changed for me.

Before I released my own AI chatbot plugin, I ran it through a security review. It came back with 35...

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Serverless Gemma 12B with NVIDIA A100 on Azure Container Apps

This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to Azure Container Apps. A...

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What it takes to build docs worth reading

From 476 to 1,900+ commits: See how the Midnight DevRel team treated documentation like a product and completely transformed the developer hub.

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Working on a silly project - share your favorite AI buzzwords/phrases and general key terms with me please!!

Feel free to include any brands or product names as well. Be as obscure or on the nose as you'd like....

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Link or Button, that is the question.

What is a Link? Definition A link is an interactive element that redirects the...

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12B Gemma 4 Deployment with NVIDIA Blackwell 6000, MCP, Cloud Run, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud Run hosted GPU...

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MTP Speculative Decoding with the 12B Gemma 4 QAT Model on NVIDIA L4, Cloud Run, MCP, and…

MTP Speculative Decoding with the 12B Gemma 4 QAT Model on NVIDIA L4, Cloud Run, MCP, and...

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Skills over System Prompts: Building an Anki Tutor with the Antigravity SDK

AI has made me a little lazier. Not dramatically lazy. Not "the robots will do everything" lazy....

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Congrats to the Hermes Agent Challenge Winners!

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Hermes Agent Challenge! Over the past few weeks, the...

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I'm not a developer, but I built a calendar app to fix my most annoying work task

I’m not a developer! I’ve never coded anything in my life. As far as I’m concerned, a Cloudtop is...

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Building an agentic PR reviewer with Antigravity SDK

As announced in this blog post on June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions...

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Congrats to the Gemma 4 Challenge Winners!

We are so excited to announce the winners of the Gemma 4 Challenge! This is officially our most...

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How to Read a webrtc-internals Dump, Section by Section

When a WebRTC call goes bad, the browser already recorded what happened. Chrome keeps a live record...

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Real-time IP capacity in Google Cloud subnets

When managing Shared VPCs, most teams allocate dedicated IP subnets for each service project to keep...

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Debugging Deployments with Gemma 12B, TPU v6e-1, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...

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Ask a DEV Community Mod!

Disclaimer: Please read the full post before commenting. Hey everyone! If you do not know me, my...

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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...

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12B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI

This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Compute Engine hosted...

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Building a Chrome Extension to Make AI Use More Intentional

After posting several articles about the impact of AI on developers and sharing resources to help...

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Letters to Tomorrow: A June Solstice Game About the Things We Carry Into Tomorrow

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam 🎮 Play the Game: Letters to Tomorrow 💻 Source...

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday! Today's cover image comes from the last thread. DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in...

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Open Knowledge Format - portable digital map of your data as code

Yesterday Google dropped an article describing an interesting idea - a portable format for knowledge...

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Turning Gemma 4 into an Old Korean Translator

There’s something uniquely beautiful about old books. The smell of weathered paper, the texture of...

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Dialling Our Agents to 11: Agent Skills You Need to be Using!

What This Article Is About Howdy friends! Recently I wrote an article called Dialling Our...

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Building Knowledge Graphs with Gemini

✨ Overview In this exploration, we'll see how to turn raw, unstructured documents into...

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Dev Opportunity Radar #3: Neo Scholars, a $2M AI Challenge, and an $85K AI Fellowship

TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...

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IOS Midsommer Madness

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Your Iphone can now celebrate the Solstace! When...

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Why I still teach Singleton even though modules make it redundant

Ask any developer what design pattern they know best and Singleton comes up first. Ask the same group...

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What was your win this week?

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...

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The AI Addiction Nobody Is Talking About

There is a particular kind of restlessness spreading through the tech world right now. It is not...

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Your Vibe-Coded App Works. Is It Any Good?

TL;DR - Getting an app to run is now the easy part. AI is very good at producing something that...

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System Design - A Frontend Engineer's Deep Dive

A walkthrough of designing a real-time collaborative whiteboard from a blank page to a production-ready architecture.

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Congrats to the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge Winners!

We are so excited to announce the winners of the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge! We asked you to...

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Virtual Coffee Needs Your Help

Virtual Coffee has always been a free, volunteer-led developer community supporting the tech...

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Why New Language Features Need to Target AI Agents, Not Developers

AI agents are writing our production code. It's time to stop designing syntax sugar for humans and start optimizing languages for bots.

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My daughter asked if developers used to write code by hand, but it was the follow-up question that surprised me.

My daughter Emma is 11. She's been vibe coding lately, and honestly, she's pretty good at it. The...

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Celebrate June rituals with Solstice Bingo!

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Before we dive into technicalities, let me make...

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I'm so tired to code. Not even Vibe Coding... D:

A post by FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

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CSS – only a Nerdy Hobby?

In times when people believe that "AI can code a website in 2 days" (see: how to leverage AI as a...

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Claude Fable 5 is Now Generally Available on Google Cloud! 🚀

Good news for Claude devs deploying on Google Cloud. Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest frontier...

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Build a Realtime Translation App with Gemini Live API, LiveKit, & Google Cloud Run

Imagine speaking in English, and having listeners from all over the world hear you translated into...

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From Dashboards to Autonomous Action: Why You Need to Attend Google Cloud Labs

The era of passive data analytics is over. Today, the most forward-thinking data teams aren't just...

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TanStack Start Is Kind of a Big Deal

Introduction People keep telling me TanStack Start is kind of a big deal, and I wanted to...

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It's Time We All Eat some more Cucumber!

Everyone's writing specs for AI now. We hand the model a markdown file, tell it what we want, and...

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You’re a Real TypeScript Developer Only If...

A few months ago, I published You're a Real JavaScript Developer Only If... It was just a post for...

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I tried to make an AI agent answer more. It answered less.

If you build or evaluate scoped agents: any talk about the agent in your test context makes it defend...

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Magnificent Humanity, Building Cities, and a Special Announcement!

I'm back from a great vacation and side-quest experience in Asia, where one can always find brilliant...

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Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

Gemma 4 12B is designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop,...

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AI Won't Replace Humans — It'll Just Make Us Pickier

Every few weeks someone posts the same screenshot: an AI writing a whole app from a one-line prompt,...

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Dystopian Civilization Scenarios

Gaming, like AI, is far from what fascinates me most about technology and creative development....

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Retour sur le Google I/O 2026 | Focus Antigravity 2.0

En mai, la très attendue conférence Google I/O a eu lieu et le mot d’ordre, et ce n’est pas trop une...

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Seamless scaling with VPA In-place Pod Resize on GKE

Learn how VPA In-place Pod Resize can help seamlessly vertically scale workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

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I Finished What I Started: Adding AI to Every Layer of a Form Builder (With GitHub Copilot)

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Dculus...

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Winner Announcement Delayed for the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge

Hey all, we have a quick update for everyone who participated in the Google I/O Writing...

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Agent Factory Recap: Building with Gemini 3, AI Studio, Antigravity, and Nano Banana

Welcome back to The Agent Factory! This week, we went beyond the hype to dissect the technical...

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Physics, Engineering, and Architecture in Software Systems and the obsession with Architecture

Something that has been bothering me for a while in the software industry is how disproportionately...

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LiveKnowledge: Engineering Verifiable Knowledge

LiveKnowledge is a CLI tool that closes the loop between unstructured text and structured, verifiable...

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Extending a MCP/A2A Currency Agent with A2UI

Building an Agent with A2A, MCP, ADK, and A2UI This tutorial aims to extend and test a...

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Join the June Solstice Game Jam: $1,000 in prizes!

We're excited to kick off the June Solstice Game Jam, running from June 3 through June 21 and ending...

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Want to work with me? We're hiring a Community Program Manager at DEV!

Hey friends 👋 As the title suggests, we are hiring! If you've been with us for a little while, I'm...

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Am I Becoming Too Slow for the AI World?

The AI world is full of old infrastructure with stochastic organs. That sentence probably explains...

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Every tool seems to have a coding agent horned in these days..... I don't think that makes sense.

A post by Ben Halpern

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What I'm building, and why

Two OSS dev tools shipped this month — tracelane (self-contained test-failure replays) and peek (your browser, exposed to your AI agent over MCP). Both offline, no SaaS. This is the why.

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Executing Google Apps Script on Complex Schedules using Vibe Coding

Abstract Configuring complex time-driven triggers in Google Apps Script—such as...

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After 7 Next.js 16 Caching Bugs, I Stopped Guessing and Built a System

There's a specific feeling you get after your third production caching incident. It's not panic....

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Surviving the eviction: How to build interrupt-resilient AI workloads on GKE

Learn strategies for building interrupt-resilient AI workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the...

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Send your first AI message in one API call

Most AI tutorials start with a setup checklist. Pick a model provider. Create an account. Wire up a...

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How we turned the Replay keynote surprise into an open-source embedded playground

We handed out 2,000 tiny hackable computers at Replay. Now the whole ecosystem is open source. Here's the story of how we built and shipped them.

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Learning Lessons from Gaming

I don't identify as a gamer. I occasionally participate in board games or an amateur football match,...

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Sovereign Synapse: The Context-Cleaner

(Curation is Sovereignty) Sovereign Synapse Series | Post 2 AI is polite by design. It...

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Gubernator [the kill ku8s]

Why I built an alternative to Kubernetes overkill. Let’s talk about infrastructure...

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Getting started with WebGPU

Learn the basics of WebGPU for modern graphics on the web.

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I Used My Last 7% of Copilot Tokens to Bring a 2014 WinForms Game Back to Life

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Originally, I didn't plan to join...

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Debloating The AI-Grown Codebase

The use of AI Agents creates a distinctive smell... One can tell the GH Repo owner was high on...

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