Every time a new frontier model comes out, we go through the same rituals: benchmarks get reported, leaderboards get reshuffled, and the social feeds fill up with a heady cocktail of vibes, hot takes, and everything we’ve found the new model can “one-shot.” Anyone watching from the sidelines could ...
Read articleEvery October for the past twelve years, developers around the world have taken part in Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open-source software: code that anyone can use, inspect, and improve. For most of that history, the rules were simple: Contribute a set number of pull requests and earn...
Read articleThere’s a specific moment that happens at every single hackathon. It’s usually around 2 or 3 a.m., when the free energy drinks are completely gone, the demo is still half-broken, and someone on your team leans back in their folding chair and asks: "Wait... can we actually ship this? Do we still have...
Read articleWe (at DEV and MLH) are covering AI Engineer's World Fair by printing a physical newspaper called "The Daily Context" everyday of the conference. We wanted to include a game in each issue so for today's first edition, we published a little word search affectionately named "Vector Search": , I’m looking forward to having my mind blown. That being said, I’m also compelled to think deeply about how we actually get things done in today’s software development landscape. There is competitive pres...
Read articleWelcome to the first edition of the AI Engineer World’s Fair newspaper! On behalf of the organizing team, I’m delighted to welcome you to AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026, and to thank MLH and DEV for helping make this newspaper possible. There are multiple personal full-circle moments here for me. ...
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