The Most Expensive Bug in Software Development Is Poor Communication
When people talk about expensive software bugs, they usually mention security breaches. Or outages. Or deployment failures. Those certainly cost money…
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I shipped my first AWS + Vercel product in 7 days during a Meta attribution crisis 👋
Hi dev.to 👋 I'm Andres. Long-time builder, first-time dev.to poster. (Pretty sure I should have done this years ago.) Just shipped Ad Engine — a 24/7 …
Startup Automation in 2026: The Opportunities, Risks, and Limits of AI-Driven Growth
Startups have always faced the same challenge: Too much work, too little time, and not enough people. In the past, solving that problem usually meant …
Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #026 — Next.js Turbopack Denied-Path Watcher Boundary
Target: vercel/next.js Issue: vercel/next.js#81161 PR: vercel/next.js#94735 Field Lab: https://github.com/scarab-systems/scarab-field-lab This field t…
Introducing AWS FinOps Agent - An AI That Investigates Your Cloud Costs
👋 Hey there, Tech Enthusiasts! I'm Sarvar, a Cloud Architect who loves turning complex tech problems into simple solutions. I've worked with AWS, Azur…
Part 5 ("The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer") has been generating sharp comments. Worth a read for the thread alone.
The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer: How the Harness Holds Quality (Series Part 5) Self-healing guardrails for business-side PRs Ryosuke Tsuji R…
Zero Data Leakage: Running Llama-3 Locally on iPhone with MLX-Swift for Ultra-Private Health Logs
Your health data is probably the most sensitive information you own. Yet, most "AI Health Assistants" today require you to ship your symptoms, moods, …
The Real AI Coding Breakthrough Is Not More Context. It Is Better Diagnostics.
When I started building what became Scarab Diagnostic Suite, I was not trying to create a theory of AI-assisted software development. I was trying to …
In the Beginning Was the Word
Why your organization's source of truth isn't your database it's your conversation Every organization already contains its operational state. It is no…
Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #023 — Rust Raw Pointer Recursive Layout Boundary
Target: rust-lang/rust Issue: rust-lang/rust#157047 Status: ready-for-review PR opened PR: rust-lang/rust#157724 Branch: https://github.com/scarab-sys…
I created two ghosts during lunch. The AI gave one a job offer.
This is a story about a company that rolled out an AI interview system — and the lunch break I spent creating two ghosts to test it. One of them stuff…
Scarab Field Test #021 — pnpm Self-Upgrade No-Manifest Boundary
Target: pnpm/pnpm Issue: pnpm/pnpm#12240 PR: pnpm/pnpm#12301 Public branch: https://github.com/scarab-systems/pnpm/tree/fix/deps-status-no-manifest La…
Stop Guessing Your Meds: Building a Multi-Drug Conflict Scanner with GPT-4o & FDA API
Have you ever stared at two different medicine boxes, squinting at the tiny font of the active ingredients, wondering: "Can I actually take these toge…
Field Test #020b — Next.js Root Ownership Refinement
The first version of the patch treated the issue as a nearest-root problem. That was too broad. The failure in #92978 involved a stray parent lockfile…
A python terminal writer with git, github e2ee sync, hardware bound keys and temporal search
📓 Terminal Notes sys-ronin / terminal-notes Terminal notes - Git, encryption, free E2EE sync, cognitive UI 📓 Terminal Notes Encrypted terminal-based w…
Wait... FDE Is Not a JavaScript Framework?
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lr…
The Loop Is Not the Product
A tweet landed on my timeline from Peter Steinberger — OpenClaw founder, now at OpenAI: "Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting …
What I achieved in My First Week as a Self Employed Dev
Disclaimer: NOT AI generated. Almost a week ago, I resigned from my Full time Software Developer Job to pursue Self Employment. This decision came aft…
The Future of Software Development Isn’t Writing More Code — It’s Building Smarter Systems
For decades, becoming a better developer meant one thing: Write more code. Learn more programming languages. Memorize more syntax. Build more features…
I Wrote 10 AI Stories in 10 Days. My Keyboard Started Smoking on Day 4.
Biggest thing I learned writing the AI, Ego & Regret series: I argue with myself way more than I thought. Every post goes through the same loop: 1…
AI's real value isn't automation. It's how fast you can act on what you already know.
Something I keep noticing across teams and orgs that are actually getting value from AI versus the ones that aren't. The difference rarely comes down …
Building Your "Longevity Knowledge Graph": Stop Ignoring 10 Years of Health Reports with GraphRAG and Neo4j
We’ve all been there: every year, you get a physical, receive a thick PDF full of blood markers, glance at the "normal range" checkmarks, and toss it …
Automating Myself Away… Almost
Automating Myself Away… Almost Hey, it’s the AI era, and I could not help but test the theory. And yes, I automated myself away. Well, not exactly. Bu…
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 previous week (Saturday-Friday). Congrats to all th…
How do you handle "Hackathon Burnout" after shipping two projects back-to-back?
Hey DEV Community! 👋 I just officially hit "submit" on my entries for both the June Solstice Game Jam (I built Solstice Sync, a fast-paced cosmic alig…
The NetSapiens inter-domain calling quirk that keeps showing up
Quick share. Been running into this enough times across NetSapiens deployments that it's worth flagging. Scenario: Call gets placed or transferred bet…
Not Everything Needs a Subscription - Small manifesto against renting software
Why I'm building OlympStack — tools you own, for developers who run their own infrastructure. A small manifesto against renting software you'll use un…
Beyond the Prompt: Why Experience Still Matters
My profile: 40 years of IT evolution My name is Marco and I am an IT professional with 40 years of experience spent across software development, analy…
Scarab Diagnostic Suite Field Test #017: Node.js Readline Line-Separator Boundary
This field test was against Node.js. The issue was Node.js #22448: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/22448 The public PR is here: https://github.c…
The Bug Usually Starts Before the Error
I have been posting Scarab Diagnostic Suite field tests here on DEV: real issues, real repos, real patches, real diagnostic pressure. But the deeper p…