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dev.to > morganintech > expanding-software-engineering-teams-for-social-impact-projects-2jkg

Expanding Software Engineering Teams for Social Impact Projects

39+ min ago   (359+ words) Hiring full-time engineers is expensive and competitive, especially on a nonprofit, mission-driven budget. Meanwhile, there's a large population of developers who want to contribute to meaningful projects without signing on for a full-time role. Open source is the mechanism that…...

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dev.to > morganintech > securely-merging-pull-requests-from-public-contributors-3kl5

Securely Merging Pull Requests from Public Contributors

38+ min ago   (488+ words) How can maintainers safely test forked PRs without exposing sensitive data to potentially untrusted code? This article explores how on forked pull requests authored by public code contributors, with no elevated permissions from repository / organization roles, can be securely merged....

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dev.to > michaels1011 > ephemora-cell-a-capability-based-wasm-sandbox-for-untrusted-ai-code-3eii

Ephemora Cell: a capability-based WASM sandbox for untrusted AI code

32+ min ago   (369+ words) AI agents do not only answer questions. They write code, call tools, and load plugins. The hard part is not starting that work. It is what the code is allowed to do once it runs. Permission systems answer “may it…...

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dev.to > billiem > what-gpt-6-astra-chose-to-build-5e9a

What GPT-6 Astra chose to build

48+ min ago   (395+ words) Three Astra builds through prototype review: a repaired input, a clearer order comparison and a booklet export with an untested paper result. Tagged with ai, webdev, testing, showdev....

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dev.to > oleg_merkulov > a-turing-machine-in-minecraft-2120

A Turing Machine in Minecraft

2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (370+ words) This is an English translation of my original article on Habr, originally published in Russian. A... Tagged with showdev, minecraft, computerscience, programming....

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dev.to > ilinmaks > a-rag-chatbot-on-your-company-knowledge-base-what-it-is-and-when-it-pays-off-h34

A RAG chatbot on your company knowledge base: what it is and when it pays off

2+ hour, 45+ min ago   (806+ words) The request I hear most often this year sounds the same every time: "We want a bot that answers from our documents and does not make things up." The technical name is RAG, retrieval-augmented generation. Below, without jargon: what it…...

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dev.to > marinenimd > context-aware-spring-ai-chat-microservice-ake

Context aware Spring AI chat microservice

2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (360+ words) By default, Large Language Models (LLMs) are completely stateless. Every API call you make to Google Gemini is treated like a first-time introduction. If a user says "My name is Alex" in request one, and "What is my name?" in…...

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dev.to > nexoper > how-i-built-a-bilingual-rag-powered-ai-calling-chat-agent-with-a-full-admin-ops-center-573o

How I Built a Bilingual RAG-Powered AI Calling & Chat Agent (With a Full Admin Ops Center)

2+ hour, 26+ min ago   (429+ words) Most "AI chatbot" projects stop at a demo: a widget, an OpenAI/Gemini call, a canned prompt. Getting one into production for real businesses — across voice calls, web chat, and WhatsApp, in two languages, without hallucinating — is a different problem....

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dev.to > rapidlashes > no-idea-where-to-start-learning-sql-4nh6

NO idea where to start learning SQL?

3+ hour, 1+ min ago   (246+ words) This article is a beginner friendly guide that gets you started into learning SQL as a programming... Tagged with programming, productivity, beginners, webdev....