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How Are Developers Actually Using AI At Work?

Sylwia Laskowska2d ago • 4 min read

How Are Developers Actually Using AI At Work?

JSNation is coming soon, and besides my talk (I’ll drop the link in the comments so I don’t spam you...

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Jess Lee2d ago • 3 min read

I Thought Coding Was The Job

Two years ago, when I got my first freelance client, I was still in my final semester of college. A...

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AI Agents Are Great at 80% of Our Code. The Other 20% Is Why We Still Need Seniors.

arun rajkumar1d ago • 6 min read

AI Agents Are Great at 80% of Our Code. The Other 20% Is Why We Still Need Seniors.

We let AI agents loose on a payment platform. They crushed the boring stuff. Then they silently brok...

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Jess Lee5h ago • 1 min read

What was your win this week?

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

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A 100% Private, Local AI Resume Optimizer with Google Gemma 4: How I Built ResuMate!

deeptej (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ4d ago • 9 min read

A 100% Private, Local AI Resume Optimizer with Google Gemma 4: How I Built ResuMate!

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 See why I chose the Gemma 4 E2...

#devchallenge#gemmachallenge#gemma#discuss

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ3h ago • 2 min read

🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: May 2026

Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this...

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I Spent 10x Longer Debugging AI Code Than Writing It

Harsh 1d ago • 5 min read

I Spent 10x Longer Debugging AI Code Than Writing It

AI wrote the code in 30 seconds Three lines A simple function I prompted it generated I copied It.....

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Now I See Why Translators Are Panicking Over AI—Should Coders Panic Too?

Cesar Aguirre4d ago • 2 min read

Now I See Why Translators Are Panicking Over AI—Should Coders Panic Too?

Last year, I met a young translator reinventing herself. She studied Translation for five years at ...

#coding#discuss#ai#programming

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Chris Jarvis4d ago • 2 min read

What are your goals for the week? #180

It's Memorial Day and I'm working at a Ren Faire. I'll fix goals later in the week. ...

#career#discuss#productivity#watercooler

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Hermes Agent Changed How I Think About Execution Boundaries

Hemapriya Kanagala3d ago • 8 min read

Hermes Agent Changed How I Think About Execution Boundaries

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent TL;DR Traditional.....

#hermesagentchallenge#devchallenge#agents#discuss

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The Cost of Showing Up: What the Productivity Advice Does Not Tell You About Being Visible

Sinisa Kusic3d ago • 8 min read

The Cost of Showing Up: What the Productivity Advice Does Not Tell You About Being Visible

The advice to write publicly is correct. The advice almost never names what that work actually costs...

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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🦁️1d ago • 9 min read

Let Equals Equal Equals

TL;DR: Setting ariaDescribedByElements on a node silently fails when the target is in a different...

#a11y#discuss#javascript#webdev

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Why Zed Is Replacing VS Code in My AI-Augmented Workflow

v. Splicer6d ago • 6 min read

Why Zed Is Replacing VS Code in My AI-Augmented Workflow

VS Code won the editor wars by becoming the Walmart of IDEs — everything available, nothing...

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Stephen Sebastian4d ago • 4 min read

The $5 AI That Remembers Everything

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent The lie we'v...

#hermesagentchallenge#devchallenge#agents#discuss

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Dev Opportunity Radar #1: A $100K AI Grant, Two Fellowships, and an AI Agent Resource

Hemapriya Kanagala3h ago • 5 min read

Dev Opportunity Radar #1: A $100K AI Grant, Two Fellowships, and an AI Agent Resource

TL;DR I've missed a lot of opportunities simply because I didn't know they existed. So every...

#discuss#community#opportunities#resources

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Age checks are becoming the new login wall

Jenuel Oras Ganawed4d ago • 4 min read

Age checks are becoming the new login wall

Age verification is moving from niche compliance into everyday apps. The safety goal is real, but th...

#privacy#webdev#technology#discuss

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Managing Documentation Across README, Website, and Demo

Georgi Hristov5d ago • 1 min read

Managing Documentation Across README, Website, and Demo

“At some point, documentation starts feeling like a second project.” Yesterday I spent time...

#documentation#github#productivity#discuss

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Cognitive Debt: AI Is Building Your Systems. Do You Actually Understand Them?

kranthi kumar Gajji4d ago • 8 min read

Cognitive Debt: AI Is Building Your Systems. Do You Actually Understand Them?

Introduction I want to tell you about a feeling I kept having at work. Our team was...

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My first collaboration post on DEV! Was so much fun! Check it out to see verdicts on Gemma 4 from multiple writers here!

Julien Avezou6d ago • 1 min read

My first collaboration post on DEV! Was so much fun! Check it out to see verdicts on Gemma 4 from multiple writers here!

Should you use Gemma 4 for your Development? A Multiversal Analysis to Determine if Gemma 4 is...

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Nobody Wants to Read Your Code (And You Don't Want to Read Theirs)

Walter Hrad6d ago • 3 min read

Nobody Wants to Read Your Code (And You Don't Want to Read Theirs)

There is a thing that happens when you join a new codebase. You open a file, read maybe fifteen...

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Asesh2d ago • 3 min read

Why Doesn't Linux Break Every Week?

Linux has thousands of contributors. Yet some commercial applications with dedicated teams seem to....

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The Hidden Cost of Complex AI Platforms: Why Developer Experience Matters

Shaoni Mukherjee1d ago • 12 min read

The Hidden Cost of Complex AI Platforms: Why Developer Experience Matters

Key Takeaways Developer experience is a real cost, not a soft metric: Time lost in...

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AI made senior devs 19% slower. They swore it made them faster.

Aditya Agarwal6d ago • 3 min read

AI made senior devs 19% slower. They swore it made them faster.

AI made senior devs 19% slower. They swore it made them faster. Take a moment to let that satisfyin...

#ai#productivity#programming#discuss

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