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Same 2021 article, same detector, a year apart: 97% AI, then 8.6%. This dev separates Anthropic's watermark from third-party detectors from platform badges, and argues the real question is who thought it through. { author: Pascal CESCATO } dev.to/pascal_cesca...
The "AI" Badge Doesn't Measure What You Think It Does
Anthropic signed the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and...
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We're hiring MLH Coaches! We think being an MLH Coach is an awesome opportunity, but don't just take it from us — watch our current Coaches share what it's like to mentor hackers and support organizers at hackathons worldwide. Apply now: careers.mlh.io/o/coach-even...
The DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition is live! 🐕 Build something for, about, or inspired by dogs 🦴 $1,000 prize pool across five winners 🐾 Submissions due Aug 17 at 6:59 AM UTC dev.to/devteam/join...
Nvidia, Anthropic, DeepMind and Meta published very different answers to who gets to run powerful models. This dev reads the manifestos past open versus closed, then scales the question down to your own agents. { author: @@reidmarlow.com } dev.to/reidmarlow/o...
Open Weights Are Now a Policy Fight
Open Weights Are Now a Policy Fight Silicon Valley spent the last few weeks publishing AI...
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Not a password hiding behind your fingerprint. The private key never leaves the secure chip, and only a signature crosses the network. Phishing fails by design rather than by luck. { author: @thomasbnt.dev } dev.to/thomasbnt/pa...
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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15,000 GitHub stars in, the hard part became keeping quality consistent as teams piled in. Linters, link checks and weekly evals hold the bar. { author: @rsamborski.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/beh...
Behind the scenes: How we build, test, and scale Google Agent Skills
AI agents are only as good as the instructions and context you give them. When we launched Google...
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Attending @renderatl.com next week? We're hosting Hack RenderATL: build projects that benefit your community, flex your skills with Atlanta Open Data, win prizes, and get hands-on support from tech mentors. Wednesday the 12th at 11:30 AM luma.com/RenderATLHack
Hack RenderATL · Luma
Build tech that makes a real-world impact! You have 24 hours at RenderATL to build something that makes the world a better place. Hosted by Major League…
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What a token actually is, how retrieval-augmented generation fits in, why context windows keep growing, and whether burning more tokens really means more productivity. Spoiler on that last one: no. { author: @annthurium.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/ai-...
AI builder essentials: tokens, context windows and RAG 101
Tokens are an important foundational concept that underlie how we interact with LLMs. @greggyb and...
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Happy Friday! What is something you're proud of this week? dev.to/devteam/what...
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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DevRelCon NYC starts tomorrow! Let us give you a tour of the wonderfully eclectic space at Industry City in Brooklyn. We can’t wait to see you tomorrow. 🌇 Don’t have a tickets yet? You can still grab them here: ti.to/mlh/devrelco...
We're hiring MLH Coaches! Get paid to attend hackathons, mentor hackers, and support organizers at events. Apply today: careers.mlh.io/o/coach-even...
Meet Hear2Help: A hackathon project giving a voice to the deaf, non-verbal, and anyone in crisis. Triple-tap to trigger SOS, get real-time AI speech via ElevenLabs, and instantly find nearby help. Check out the build: devpost.com/software/hea...
Twenty years of posts, 2,630 of them, moved into one monorepo with full git history intact. This dev shares the stack and the weird bugs. { author: @matty.wtf } dev.to/mattstratton...
I Contain Multitudes (and Also Three Git Repos)
A tour of the stack behind mattstratton.com and speaking.mattstratton.com: a monorepo holding two Astro sites and a dev.to sync tool, twenty years of blog posts, and the pipeline that crossposts posts...
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Bots reviewing, bots replying, humans exhausted. This dev's team learned skilled attention is the scarce resource worth guarding. { author: @christine-seeman.com } dev.to/cseeman/retu...
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 ex...
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The DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition is live! ❤️🔥 Build something inspired by passion — rivalries, fandoms, side project love, any interpretation is fair game ❤️🔥 FIVE winners across unique categories ❤️🔥 Submissions due July 13 at 6:59 AM UTC dev.to/devteam/join...
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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Is a secret cabal of veteran engineers rebranding good software practices as hot new AI skills? Spoiler: probably not. @mcscoot.bsky.social investigates for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...
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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Loops on trial at the World's Fair: Geoff Huntley calls them inevitable, Dex Horthy urges a more measured approach. @iainthomson.bsky.social reports for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...
Is looping ready to roll? Experts split on the future of coding
On the closing day of the AI Engineer World's Fair, industry leaders debated whether loops are ready...
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The AI Engineer World's Fair has been a blast! Until next year. ✌️
Open weights are not open source. From the World's Fair floor, @johncodes.com makes the case for why free software must reckon with frontier AI. In The Daily Context: dev.to/dailycontext...
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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The final print issue of The Daily Context is out today at the AI Engineer World's Fair! It's been a pleasure serving you. If you're there in person, find us to grab a copy. Otherwise, check out the web version at dev.to/aie 📸: Zac Borja (1,2), Matt Spinetta (3)
This dev went from zero Kotlin experience to a working native Android app in about five minutes using Google AI Studio. The video covers sideloading via USB-C with no Play Store needed, plus what happens when the AI gets something wrong. { author: @annthurium.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/i-b...
I built a native Android app in an afternoon, and I've never written a line of Kotlin
I’ve always thought building a mobile app required climbing a massive learning curve just to get a...
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Cloudflare's @micahw.com has a sobering take amid the AI coding hype: models still are not ready for complex software. Kara Silverman reports for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...
AI Isn't Ready to Build Complex Software
In an industry currently swept up in the hype of AI coding agents, Micah Wylde, principal engineer at...
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"No amount of harness engineering or loops maxing can solve what is fundamentally a model training issue," HumanLayer's Dex Horthy told the World's Fair. @iainthomson.bsky.social reports for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...
It’s Time To Put Humans Back In The Software
Software engineers have become overreliant on models to build applications, and it’s time to put...
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Software's iPhone moment brought agents that need less human supervision than ever, and security has to start there. @mcscoot.bsky.social breaks down the layered defenses builders are using to keep an agent from turning adversary. Read it in The Daily Context: dev.to/dailycontext...
The Agentic, Ironclad Onion
As AI agents work under increasingly less human supervision, the need for a trustworthy, secure work...
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