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Build AI tools for community growth at our hackathon with Lovable & Led By Community One day to collaborate with developers, designers, and community builders. Focus on real problems: onboarding, engagement, moderation, and events. 📅 Dec 3rd, 9 AM-5 PM 📍 Tessl HQ, London luma.com/ai-hackathon...

AI Lovable Hackathon London: Community Tools Edition · Luma

🧠 AI Hackathon: Community Tools Edition Hosted by Led by Community Powered by Lovable & Tessl Join us for a hands-on hackathon to build AI-powered tools that…

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QA [quality assurance] has always been kind of broken. As AI transforms code generation, traditional QA approaches fall short. Jennifer Sand, CEO & co-founder of Codential, explores the necessity for a new quality framework to address issues in AI-created code. ainativedev.io/news/beyond-...

What to verify in AI-generated code

As AI transforms code generation, traditional QA approaches fall short. This requires a new quality framework to address issues in AI-created code.

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AI hates legacy code. AI coding agents feel like magic... right up until they collide with production code. For teams maintaining legacy systems, these agents often hallucinate APIs, run off on tangents, and shatter trust faster than an unreviewed hotfix at 5pm. 🧵 1/3

Context-Bench: Measuring AI models’ context engineering proficiency Context-Bench is a new benchmark for AI models, assessing their ability to manage information and continuity skills in complex, multi-step tasks ainativedev.io/news/context...

Context-Bench: Benchmarking AI's context engineering proficiency

Context-Bench is a new benchmark for AI models, assessing their context-engineering skills in managing information and reasoning across multi-step tasks.

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What is happening in the world of AI native development today? These are builders who've already solved the problems you're probably hitting right now. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC. 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84 Use the discount code AIND-X-50 to get 50% off your tickets.

- Al Harris (Tech Lead, Kiro ) on evolving specs while building. Because requirements change faster than your AI can code them, and you need a system that handles that without breaking everything.
- Rotem Tamir (Co-creator, Atlas ) on putting guardrails on database operations with agents. Your AI shouldn't be able to drop tables. How do you give it enough access to be useful without giving it enough rope to hang itself?
- Alex Gavrilescu (Lead Backend and Web Developer, Funstage GmbH) took Backlog.md from zero to a working product with AI agents. The messy middle between "I have an idea" and "we have a product" - what actually worked.

🚀 Tonight in London's King's Cross! Join us for an evening with MLH and #GoogleGemini 🤖 Build with the latest Gemini models 🎤 Hear from DeepMind & Google Labs teams 🍕 Network over food & drinks 💡 Live demos from fellow builders Spots are limited – grab a ticket now! 🎟️ luma.com/LondonAIRoad...

MLH AI Roadshow: London · Luma

Mark your calendars for Thursday, 6 November 2025! Major League Hacking (MLH) and Google Gemini are bringing an AI packed evening to King's Cross,…

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From endless tool lists to meaningful rankings, Alan Pope, DevRel at Tessl, Simon Maple on AI Native Dev to unpack what defines ‘good’ in an open ecosystem and the tools that have helped him replace manual effort. Catch their full conversation now. Links in the comments.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬-𝐢𝐧-𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞. Each session is code-on-screen, showing real use cases. If you’re building with or for devs, this is the track you don’t skip 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th, NYC. 👉 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) + Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom) - Building AI Agents with Spring & MCP — a hands-on look at connecting Spring apps to AI agents through the new MCP protocol. Liral Tal (Director of Developer Advocacy, Snyk) — These Aren’t the Tools You’re Looking For: MCP Security Awakens — a demo that brings security and protocol-level control to AI-driven workflows. Joseph Katsioloudes (Cyber Security Specialist, GitHub) — Code Security Reinvented: Navigating the Era of AI - see how AI is reshaping secure development from inside the world’s largest developer platform.

The NOW track at DevCon - this is the stuff that actually works today. Not demos. Not beta waitlists. Production-ready. This isn't about what's coming. It's about what's working right now that you can use Monday morning. 📍 DevCon is Nov 18-19th. NYC. 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

BildNnenna Ndukwe ~ AI and Emerging Technology (Principal Developer Advocate, Qodo) explaining why you need separation of agentic concerns. One AI model trying to do everything is a recipe for disaster. She's seen it fail.René Brandel (Cofounder & CEO, Casco (YC X25)) sharing how they hacked the YC Spring 2025 batch's AI agents. Real tactics from someone who just did it.Brian Douglas (Head of DX, Continue) on virtual tool calling and portable AI toolchains. This is about making your AI integrations work across different environments without rewriting everything.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝. Not demos. but hands-on time with practitioners who are building the AI dev stack right now. These are working sessions. Bring your dev laptop. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84 #AINDCon

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Shrey Shah (Cursor Ambassador & Senior Engineer, Vivun) on the reality of testing and securing AI-generated code when your whole team is using CursorA promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Bill Maxwell (Software Architect, Obot AI) diving deep into MCP - the emerging standard for how AI agents actually connect to your toolsA promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Simon Maple (Head of DevRel) + Macey Baker (Community Engineer) from Tessl showing how to actually supercharge coding agents beyond the basic autocompleteA promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) + Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom) running a hands-on session building production agents with Spring AI, Java, and Bedrock

Last chance to hack your 2025 with Claude Code + Tessl! Join us Mon, Nov 3 at 7pm for "Your Unwrapped". A 2-hour hackathon where you build your own "Spotify Wrapped", but for anything. Turn your data into something worth sharing. Let's see your year, unwrapped. ainativedev.co/c8t

EF x Tessl x Anthropic | After Work Hack · Luma

Join us after work for an after-work hack with our friends at Tessl and Anthropic, where we’ll explore how spec-driven development and Claude Code’s agentic…

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Specs are becoming the new code. @jedi.be just dropped his insights on spec-driven development, and it's essential reading for anyone building with AI agents. The core insight? We're shifting from telling AI how to code to describing what we want built. Read the full piece: ainativedev.co/94af0c

Spec-Driven Development: 10 things you need to know about specs

Discover how spec-driven development transforms AI collaboration by shifting focus from micromanagement to clear requirements.

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The Edge track at AI Native DevCon is about emerging ideas in AI development that aren't fully polished yet. These are practitioners working through problems that don't have established solutions yet. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC. 👉 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

Chris Messina (Product Designer) on how to thrive when code becomes a commodity in the age of generative AI.Sean Roberts (Technical Advisor, Netlify) on high-voltage development workflows that make AI tooling work in real engineering teams.Jennifer Sand and Brandy Pielech (Co-Founders, Codential.ai) on what you actually need to verify in AI-generated code - beyond just running tests.George Fahmy (Founder & CEO, Stakpak) on building DevOps agents that won't accidentally delete your production database.

AI models claim to be best at coding, but benchmarks don't tell the full story. Adam Larson spent 2024-25 building custom tools to test these claims. Nov 19 at DevCon NYC, Adam will share what actually matters when choosing AI coding tools — beyond the hype. 👉 Register at: ainativedev.co/px8

Tomorrow, HackerNoon is teaming up with GadflyAI for a cyberpunk, Halloween-themed tech event that marries code, storytelling, and the open-source spirit. Spells & Syntax: A Technical Writing Workshop. 🎃✍️🧙‍♂️ hackernoon.com/learn-techni...

Learn Technical Storytelling This Halloween at the Spells & Syntax Workshop | HackerNoon

Learn how to tell great technical stories at Spells & Syntax, a free Halloween workshop by GadflyAI & HackerNoon. Write, code, and get published!

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Prompts are temporary. Specs are forever. OpenAI’s Sean Grove calls specs the “new code.” They force you to decide what good output looks like before you run the AI. Think reusable clauses, version control, IDEs that validate your spec as you write. 🧵 #AINativeDev #AIEngineering

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AI coding tools are powerful, but without structure, they drift. Claude Taskmaster attempts to fix that, and its growth has been explosive. In just 9 weeks the repo's jumped from 0 → 15,500 stars 🌟

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Why code alone isn’t enough anymore 🚫💻 Most AI tools today just help us write more code, but the real shift is moving beyond code as the source of truth. At our first London meetup, we dug into a better approach: spec-driven development.

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