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The Official Hugging Face Course
HuggingFace Docs#transformers#nlp#pytorch

The Official Hugging Face Course

Learn about natural language processing, transformers, and how to use the Hugging Face ecosystem to build state-of-the-art models.

Hugging FaceHugging Face
15400 0 120m
OpenAI Docs#prompt-engineering#gpt4#llm

Prompt Engineering Strategies

Strategies and tactics for getting better results from large language models like GPT-4.

OpenAIOpenAI
9800 0 30m
PyTorch#pytorch#tensors#deep-learning

PyTorch Basics for Machine Learning

Learn the fundamentals of PyTorch, including Tensors, Datasets, and Building Neural Networks.

PyTorch TeamPyTorch Team
12500 0 45m
20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply)
Dev.to#ai#agents#mcp

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...

Sylwia LaskowskaSylwia Laskowska
220 115 11m
What Do You Do While AI Codes?
Dev.to#discuss#ai#productivity

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.

Ashley ChildressAshley Childress
148 139 4m
From AI Solutions to Shared Knowledge: Building an MCP for the Community
Dev.to#devchallenge#weekendchallenge#ai

From AI Solutions to Shared Knowledge: Building an MCP for the Community

This is a submission for the Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition Don't Just Ask AI. Give the...

Pascal CESCATOPascal CESCATO
125 105 8m
Dev.to#ai#productivity#discuss

What do you build when you can build anything?

My hot take is: Telling people that they have to build endlessly is very, very, very bad advice. If...

AlexandraAlexandra
108 62 5m
Building With AI When You Don't Know Architecture: A Survival Guide
Dev.to#ai#beginners#webdev

Building With AI When You Don't Know Architecture: A Survival Guide

Let me describe a moment you might recognize. You had an idea for an app. You didn't know how to...

James AndersonJames Anderson
135 78 7m
The Next Evolution of Software Developers
Dev.to#ai#learning#mentorship

The Next Evolution of Software Developers

The next evolution of software developers: from implementation to intent, orchestration, and...

Roberto B.Roberto B.
112 46 7m
AI Is Already Better at Coding Than Most Software Developers
Dev.to#discuss#ai#webdev

AI Is Already Better at Coding Than Most Software Developers

...but let me say this right away: coding was never the most valuable part of software...

Sylwia LaskowskaSylwia Laskowska
95 82 5m
Most 'AI Agents' Are Just If-Statements in a Trench Coat
Dev.to#ai#softwareengineering#webdev

Most 'AI Agents' Are Just If-Statements in a Trench Coat

I built an agent last year, and I was proud of it. It had a planner. It had tools. It had a...

James AndersonJames Anderson
80 79 7m
The "AI" Badge Doesn't Measure What You Think It Does
Dev.to#ai#llm#writing

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...

Pascal CESCATOPascal CESCATO
109 125 7m
Greatness Is Forged by Limitation
Dev.to#ai#programming#webdev

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...

Adam - The Developer ✨Adam - The Developer ✨
81 42 6m
I Asked for a Portfolio but Got a Filing Cabinet
Dev.to#ai#webdev#design

I Asked for a Portfolio but Got a Filing Cabinet

Every AI redesign of my portfolio looked different and was the same filing cabinet underneath. What a style guide couldn't fix — and the one instruction that did.

Ashley ChildressAshley Childress
74 29 4m
Has AI Made You A Lazier Developer? Be Honest.
Dev.to#discuss#ai#productivity

Has AI Made You A Lazier Developer? Be Honest.

Haven't you ever wondered if this AI vibe coding has made us lazy? Who's been solving problems on...

Nazar BoykoNazar Boyko
91 30 4m
Nobody Argued For Your Stack
Dev.to#ai#webdev#react

Nobody Argued For Your Stack

Last week, it came to light Cursor had mostly finished migrating from SolidJS to React. This...

Ryan CarniatoRyan Carniato
55 21 8m
My Thermostat Was Speaking an Industrial Protocol. Just Not to Me.
Dev.to#bacnet#esp32#iot

My Thermostat Was Speaking an Industrial Protocol. Just Not to Me.

A senior software engineer who knew nothing about hardware, a BACnet MS/TP thermostat, and an RS-485 bus. How I ended up with an ESP32-S3 gateway on a DIN rail, wired into Home Assistant, in 15 evenings.

Felice LombardiFelice Lombardi
23 10 22m
AI promoted every developer to reviewer. Nobody tested the reviewer.
Dev.to#ai#productivity#testing

AI promoted every developer to reviewer. Nobody tested the reviewer.

I wanted to disagree with 'AI made me a worse reviewer' from Michael Amachree (@dev_michael) ....

Heinrich NebHeinrich Neb
67 86 6m
I Stopped Trusting AI Agents With Tools. So I Built a Gatekeeper.
Dev.to#ai#agents#security

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...

Debashish GhosalDebashish Ghosal
54 60 14m
Dev.to#ai#agents#discuss

4 pitfalls of loop engineering (and how to fix them)

Perhaps you've heard the term Loop Engineering: instead of solving a problem by hand, you build a...

Tilde A. ThuriumTilde A. Thurium
16 4 1m
I Built a Notebook for Sharing Notes That Doesn't Ask You to Sign Up First
Dev.to#ai#webdev#programming

I Built a Notebook for Sharing Notes That Doesn't Ask You to Sign Up First

Someone asked me to share meeting notes in Slack yesterday. I pasted the markdown. Slack ate the...

Varshith V HegdeVarshith V Hegde
107 30 14m
I let AI write 100% of my code for 30 days. Here's what broke.
Dev.to#ai#webdev#programming

I let AI write 100% of my code for 30 days. Here's what broke.

Not "AI-assisted." Not "copilot suggestions I edited." I mean I made a rule: for 30 days, I don't...

Info InletInfo Inlet
40 24 5m
AI-assisted genealogy
Dev.to#ai#codingassistant#genealogy

AI-assisted genealogy

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

Nicolas FränkelNicolas Fränkel
29 15 8m
The Reasoning Ledger: Remembering Decisions, Not Just Data
Dev.to#ai#agents#llm

The Reasoning Ledger: Remembering Decisions, Not Just Data

Part 4 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series After finishing the previous article, I looked at...

Ken W AlgerKen W Alger
54 63 4m
Dev.to#ai#webdev#devjournal

My AI Content Journey

I apologize ahead of time, what follows has no tooling applied to it. No grammar checks, no AI, and...

Ryan CarniatoRyan Carniato
35 12 10m
What happens to technical debt when AI makes code cheap?
Dev.to#ai#programming#software

What happens to technical debt when AI makes code cheap?

Dear past Jenna, I know you're used to dealing with large, complex, legacy codebases riddled with...

Jenna PedersonJenna Pederson
26 27 4m
Execution Trees, Not More Logs: A Better Debugging Model for AI Agents
Dev.to#ai#typescript#debugging

Execution Trees, Not More Logs: A Better Debugging Model for AI Agents

A flat log can tell you that five things happened. It often cannot tell you which operation caused...

Raju DandigamRaju Dandigam
37 42 5m
Dev.to#ai#discuss

AI psychosis might be a result of subscription fatigue

Continuing my thoughts after my previous article, and having too much free time lately, I have been...

AlexandraAlexandra
29 7 5m
I Tried Pair Programming With Three Different AI Tools For a Month
Dev.to#productivity#ai#tools

I Tried Pair Programming With Three Different AI Tools For a Month

AI coding tools can write a function in seconds. The harder question is whether that function...

Elsie RaineeElsie Rainee
34 33 8m
Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill
Dev.to#claudecode#writing#devtools

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.

xbillxbill
18 4 7m
Your AI Remembers Everything and Trusts All of It
Dev.to#ai#architecture#llm

Your AI Remembers Everything and Trusts All of It

I think we are still talking about AI memory in the wrong way. Most implementations are variations of...

marcosommamarcosomma
39 45 11m
Velocidade de entrega e custo de manutenção pós IA
Dev.to#ai#braziliandevs#career

Velocidade de entrega e custo de manutenção pós IA

Entregar ficou rápido demais. O problema é que manter continuou custando o mesmo preço de sempre. ...

Elves SantosElves Santos
90 5 7m
Admit it, you have a favorite AI (just like you have a favorite coworker)
Dev.to#ai#productivity

Admit it, you have a favorite AI (just like you have a favorite coworker)

A short rant on the Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot experience

Amara GrahamAmara Graham
14 13 6m
Dev.to#opensource#devops#docker

Reviving Open Source Giants: How I Brought Weave Scope Back with Multi-Platform Docker Support in One Afternoon Using Antigravity

How to rescue abandoned open-source projects, modernize build systems, and generate multi-architecture Docker images (x86_64, ARM64) in a single afternoon with Antigravity.

Mario EzquerroMario Ezquerro
22 7 3m
AI Engineering Is Easy. Changing How We Work Is Hard
Dev.to#ai#agents#software

AI Engineering Is Easy. Changing How We Work Is Hard

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

ujjaujja
47 49 4m
Dev.to#ai#career#opinion

Not All AI Builders Are Doing the Same Work

In 2026, nearly everyone I interact with in tech wants to talk about AI. It comes up on LinkedIn, at...

Danielle HeberlingDanielle Heberling
18 7 4m
Is This Really Required? Meet gh stack
Dev.to#github#ai#tutorial

Is This Really Required? Meet gh stack

A tutorial for gh stack, and for the fact that it does not care whether the diff gets read by my lead or by an AI. Small diffs get reviewed better either way.

Ashley ChildressAshley Childress
18 6 7m
I Write Less Code Than I Used To. That May Be the Point.
Dev.to#ai#programming#productivity

I Write Less Code Than I Used To. That May Be the Point.

Over the last year, my day-to-day job has changed in a way I am still trying to understand. I am...

marcosommamarcosomma
31 32 5m
24 Cups, 36 Seats — The Bartender's Ledger
Dev.to#career#discuss#ai

24 Cups, 36 Seats — The Bartender's Ledger

24 stories. 24 visits. One counter, same six faces. The Third Cup The AI wave hit, and...

xulingfengxulingfeng
85 80 11m
Why Does Every AI Agent Still Look Like `while (true) { ... }`?
Dev.to#ai#typescript#architecture

Why Does Every AI Agent Still Look Like `while (true) { ... }`?

Most agent runtimes share the same brittle skeleton. Here's what happens when you replace it with an event log.

tomtom
26 12 5m
The Matrix Wasn't A Battery Farm. It Was A GPU Cluster Made Of Human Brains.
Dev.to#ai#gpu#movies

The Matrix Wasn't A Battery Farm. It Was A GPU Cluster Made Of Human Brains.

Nvidia is worth more than most countries because we cannot figure out how to do cheap...

Jonathan MurrayJonathan Murray
42 4 4m
I tested Claude Code's memory against mine. They are not doing the same job.
Dev.to#ai#claudecode#productivity

I tested Claude Code's memory against mine. They are not doing the same job.

Proof over claim Last time I described the hour a platform shipped the feature I had spent months...

Heinrich NebHeinrich Neb
31 33 7m
I Tested 5 Design to Code Tools With the Same Outdated SaaS Dashboard
Dev.to#ai#design#coding

I Tested 5 Design to Code Tools With the Same Outdated SaaS Dashboard

A polished UI can make a product feel completely different, but getting there usually takes more than...

Hadil Ben AbdallahHadil Ben Abdallah
61 28 17m
Dev.to#showdev#ai#python

I raced six models against each other on DigitalOcean Inference. The cheapest one won.

Every time I put a model behind an endpoint I make the same lazy decision. I pick whatever I used...

RemdoreRemdore
15 12 8m
I Tested Rails Baseline by Leaving Architecture Out of the Prompt
Dev.to#ai#rails#agents

I Tested Rails Baseline by Leaving Architecture Out of the Prompt

Note: Rails Baseline is the production-ready Rails foundation I tested here. It gives a new SaaS...

Rob RaceRob Race
7 0 7m
The Model Scored 30%. The Harness Scored 100%. Which One Did You Benchmark?
Dev.to#ai#llm#agents

The Model Scored 30%. The Harness Scored 100%. Which One Did You Benchmark?

Four harnesses took the same public ARC-AGI-3 set from 13% to 100% without touching a single weight. Then Microsoft put the harness inside the training loop.

Sergei ParfenovSergei Parfenov
22 44 10m
Dev.to#ai#videoproduction#creativeindustry

Breaking the Multimodal Barrier: Exploring Gemini Omni and My Time with GDG Calabar

The energy following a major Google I/O announcement always ripples through the developer ecosystem,...

Gbemisola EshoGbemisola Esho
11 6 3m
Dev log #19 WebRTC v2 flows, agentic orchestration, and a perfectly synced vault
Dev.to#typescript#ai#programming

Dev log #19 WebRTC v2 flows, agentic orchestration, and a perfectly synced vault

This week was a high-output sprint across the stack—from low-level p2p networking in Python to...

Yash Kumar SainiYash Kumar Saini
38 3 4m
NexPath Review: The Prompt Quality Layer for Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code
Dev.to#ai#programming#showdev

NexPath Review: The Prompt Quality Layer for Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code

Your AI coding agent does exactly what you ask, which isn't always what you mean. NexPath catches vague prompts before they become bugs.

Sarvar NadafSarvar Nadaf
58 47 8m
Dev.to#ai#agents#programming

The extraction returned zero memories, and nothing screamed

A session commit reported success. The memory extraction produced zero memories. No error dialog, no...

pm25coderpm25coder
14 34 5m
Wiring a Reachy Mini into OpenClaw without trusting the robot
Dev.to#openclaw#ai#productivity

Wiring a Reachy Mini into OpenClaw without trusting the robot

I put a Reachy Mini in the living room. It is a small desktop robot from Pollen Robotics, now part...

Ben GreenbergBen Greenberg
9 4 7m
Dev.to#linux#security#architecture

Why I'm Building ShrekOS When Containers Already Exist

Useful AI agents keep forcing a bad choice: lock the environment down until it is useless, or hand the agent your real machine. ShrekOS is my attempt to move that trust decision below the agent, into the operating system.

Leon OdorLeon Odor
6 7 4m
Tell Me About You
Dev.to#watercooler#discuss#community

Tell Me About You

After sixty-seven published posts here, the comments have become one of the best parts of the work....

Self-Correcting SystemsSelf-Correcting Systems
60 71 5m