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Why Every Business Needs AI Integration in 2025
AI is no longer a luxury reserved for tech giants. In 2025, businesses that ignore AI integration are already falling behind. Here is what you need to know.
How Much Does It Cost to Build an App in 2026? The Honest Answer
Most agencies give you a number without explaining what drives it. We break down exactly what affects app development costs so you can budget with confidence.
Next.js vs Everything Else — Why Strayks Builds With It
After building products in multiple frameworks, we standardized on Next.js for almost everything. Here is the detailed reasoning behind that decision.
What Is DevOps and Why Your Startup Cannot Afford to Skip It
DevOps sounds like a buzzword but it is the difference between a product that scales and one that breaks under pressure. Here is what it actually means.
Web Development
Live from Dev.toI Got the proxy.ts Matcher Wrong for Three Projects Before I Understood Why
A few days ago I published a post about the three-layer auth model and the invoice incident that made...
Angular resources are not a good fit for Guards
Angular 22 released a stable version of the Resource API, providing a complete API to query an API,...
Why Your Search Bar Understands You
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...
I built a CRM Template Nobody Asked For Until 10+ Businesses Bought It
I Built a CRM Template Nobody Asked For — Then 10+ Businesses Bought It How shipping...
I Stopped Using Heavy IDEs. AI Became My IDE.
A personal take on why heavy IDEs feel less necessary as AI becomes the layer that debugs, tests, benchmarks, and verifies software work across VS Code, terminal, and CI.
10 Test Automation Problems That Look Simple Until You Face Them in Production
Test automation usually looks straightforward in a demo. You record a few actions, run the test,...
AI & Machine Learning
Live from Dev.toMy AI agent got dumber mid-session. I measured the context window before blaming MCP.
There's a particular way an AI coding agent goes bad. Not a crash, not an error. It just gets duller....
Why the retry loop is usually the expensive part of agent work
Why agent failures become expensive once the runtime keeps retrying without proving anything changed.
I scaled a pure Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to 1.088B parameters from scratch. Ran out of budget, but here is what I found
Hey everyone. I’m an 18yo indie dev, and I’ve been experimenting with Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)...
How I use premortems with Claude and Codex
I started using premortems for a boring reason: I did not trust the default review question. When I...
Building a Hermes Memory Plugin for a Voice-Powered Conference Agent with Weaviate Engram🧠
Introduction Recently, I have been attending a lot of conferences where different booths...
Why Your Search Bar Understands You
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...
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Mobile Development
Live from Dev.toReact Native vs Flutter: honest take after using both in production
I'm going to say something that will annoy people on both sides: it doesn't matter as much as the...
My 2-Month local llm daily coding replacement: Real Benchmarks
Umair shares his unfiltered experience: migrating from Claude/GPT to local LLMs for Flutter and Node.js coding, with real benchmarks and cost savings.
I Built a Real Phone App With Flutter — One Codebase for iOS + Android
For two days the series went mobile-adjacent (on-device Whisper), and today it goes fully mobile: I...
I Had Claude Fable 5 Review My Indie Diary App Before It Got Pulled — The Bugs It Caught
I used Claude Fable 5 to do a pre-release quality pass on my Flutter diary app days before the US government suspended the model. Here are the real diffs it produced, and an honest solo-dev take.
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Live from Dev.toWhy Your Search Bar Understands You
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Spring AI: The Senior Dev's Honest Take on Java's AI Moment
Spring AI connects enterprise Java to AI models with portable abstractions, RAG, MCP, and tool calling. Here is what it actually does and when to reach for it.
AI Research Engineer Open-Sources His Entire Workflow and Prompts
Fable 5 came and went. And because it was taken away so quickly, developers wanted it back even more....
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