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AI took the friction out of my work. Then I found out the friction was holding up two things: my ideas and my brakes. Twenty-five years in a confession.
For a long time now the news and the roundups have all said the same thing. AI will take away the busywork. It will kill the friction. It will hand yo…
Better Models Won't Fix AI Companions
I ran two small tests on AI companion behavior because I wanted to understand a question people keep circling around: Are AI companions bad because th…
When Your Pull Request Has More AI Reviewers Than Humans
Recently, I submitted a pull request to a project and had an experience that felt very different from the usual OSS workflow in the past. Instead of t…
Introducing Zentax A New Programming Language
Hi everyone, I’m working on a new programming language called Zentax. It is still in early development, but the goal is to build a modern language foc…
End of the Year idea for DEV?
Hey all! I have this thought in mind that we should all come together as a community to celebrate the end of the year. I am planning on doing this yea…
THE LIE NOBODY TELLS YOU ABOUT SYSTEM DESIGN INTERVIEWS
Every article about system design interviews tells you the same thing. "Learn the components. Understand trade-offs. Practice on paper." And so you do…
What Onboarding Reveals About a SaaS Vendor
I have a habit whenever I test a new SaaS product. Before I look at features. Before I compare pricing. Before I read the roadmap. I go through onboar…
What Happens When You Remove an AI Tool From a Team
Last year, a team I worked with made an unusual decision. Instead of adding another AI tool, they removed one. Not because the tool was bad. Not becau…
Has Sloan Flagged Your Article Lately?
Mine got flagged twice in one day. Both essays generated more engagement than anything else I've published here. One had a five-exchange technical com…
Could We Build a World Without Cash? Exploring Universal Biometric Identity and Digital Credits
What if you could travel anywhere in the world, buy a coffee, pay for a service, or receive government support without carrying cash, cards, or even a…
AI Doesn't Hallucinate. Your Architecture Does.
Everyone is talking about hallucination. That's the wrong diagnosis. Hallucination isn't a bug. It's the mechanism. Turn the temperature down far enou…
Word Scrambling as a Learning Mechanic: Tools, Theory, and Classroom Applications
Word scrambling is a deceptively simple mechanic. Rearrange the letters of a word, ask someone to restore the original — that's the entire game loop. …
I’m 17, and I’m teaching 6,000+ students to build apps without getting stuck in syntax hell
Hey Dev.to community! 👋 I'm Yashwardhan Sharma, a 17-year-old tech builder from Jamshedpur, India, and the founder of Idea To Action Technologies . I …
Where have the bottlenecks gone?
AI coding, using AntiGravity or Claude Code, has significantly increased the productivity of your junior developers. Applications which used to be ‘lo…
I Built a Web App That Finds the Fairest Meeting Spot for Any Group (and It's Free)
The Problem Nobody Talks About Picture this: You're trying to find a place to meet up with friends. Someone suggests a coffee shop. It's 8 minutes fro…
Stop Guessing Your Meds: Building a Multimodal RAG Assistant with LLaVA and ChromaDB
Ever stared at a cryptic medicine bottle, wondering if it interacts with your morning coffee or that other pill you're taking? For the elderly or thos…
Cogs and Sparks: Who Wins When Machines Learn to Speak Human
Disclosure: this article was written from my own thesis and lived experience, then shaped and edited with AI assistance. I reviewed the argument, revi…
Every SaaS Founder Wants Their First 100 Customers
The hardest part of building a SaaS isn't creating the product—it's getting people to use it. Many founders spend months adding features, redesigning …
How I audit a SaaS homepage before changing the design
A SaaS homepage usually does not fail because its gradient is wrong. It fails because the page makes the visitor answer too many questions on their ow…
What Happened When I Told Codex to Calm Down
I have been doing a lot of work lately tightening up my diagnostic suite: the mechanics, the workflow, the way it runs against target repos, the way i…
Truthful AI Under Pressure: What Kradle.AI Might Reveal About Fable 5
Do you know what many neurodivergent people have deeply rooted in them? A relationship with truth and justice. In psychology, this phenomenon is often…
Is it possible overload a AI as a Service with multiples requests ?
I was thinking about some tests for a service that uses language models; there are several, even prompt injection. A question came to mind: is it poss…
I am a 16-year-old dev and built a Heuristic Algorithm for the Subset Sum Problem approximating O(\log N). Need your feedback!
First, peace be upon you. I am a 16-year-old programmer, and I tried to solve the well-known Subset Sum problem. Before starting the definition, the s…
Bun rewrote itself from Zig to Rust in 9 days with an LLM. That's terrifying.
It took nine days to rewrite all of Bun from Zig to Rust using an LLM and get the new code to the point where I could merge it. I saw that and my reac…
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…
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 …
AI doesn't make you a generalist. It makes you a nobody.
Everyone is cheering that AI turns you into a "full-stack everything." But no one is questioning what it means when all of us are full-stack everythin…