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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 4d

AI Native DevCon is back, and bigger than ever!

Join us Nov 18–19 in New York (and online) for two action packed days of conference sessions and hands-on workshops for developers building with and for AI.

Head over to ainativedev.io/devcon to see the full line up!

DevCon

Stay up to date with the latest in AI Native Development—insights, real-world experiences, and news from developers and industry leaders.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 1d

Thank you so much!

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝.

Not demos. but hands-on time with practitioners who are building the AI dev stack right now.

These are working sessions. Bring your dev laptop.

📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC
🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84
#AINDCon

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Shrey Shah (Cursor Ambassador & Senior Engineer, Vivun) on the reality of testing and securing AI-generated code when your whole team is using Cursor

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Bill Maxwell (Software Architect, Obot AI) diving deep into MCP - the emerging standard for how AI agents actually connect to your tools

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Simon Maple (Head of DevRel) + Macey Baker (Community Engineer) from Tessl showing how to actually supercharge coding agents beyond the basic autocomplete

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) + Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom) running a hands-on session building production agents with Spring AI, Java, and Bedrock

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 1d

Last chance to hack your 2025 with Claude Code + Tessl! Join us Mon, Nov 3 at 7pm for "Your Unwrapped".

A 2-hour hackathon where you build your own "Spotify Wrapped", but for anything.

Turn your data into something worth sharing. Let's see your year, unwrapped.

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EF x Tessl x Anthropic | After Work Hack · Luma

Join us after work for an after-work hack with our friends at Tessl and Anthropic, where we’ll explore how spec-driven development and Claude Code’s agentic…

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 1d

Specs are becoming the new code.

@jedi.be just dropped his insights on spec-driven development, and it's essential reading for anyone building with AI agents. The core insight? We're shifting from telling AI how to code to describing what we want built.

Read the full piece: ainativedev.co/94af0c

Spec-Driven Development: 10 things you need to know about specs

Discover how spec-driven development transforms AI collaboration by shifting focus from micromanagement to clear requirements.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 2d

The Edge track at AI Native DevCon is about emerging ideas in AI development that aren't fully polished yet.

These are practitioners working through problems that don't have established solutions yet.

📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC.
👉 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

Chris Messina (Product Designer) on how to thrive when code becomes a commodity in the age of generative AI.

Sean Roberts (Technical Advisor, Netlify) on high-voltage development workflows that make AI tooling work in real engineering teams.

Jennifer Sand and Brandy Pielech (Co-Founders, Codential.ai) on what you actually need to verify in AI-generated code - beyond just running tests.

George Fahmy (Founder & CEO, Stakpak) on building DevOps agents that won't accidentally delete your production database.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 2d

AI models claim to be best at coding, but benchmarks don't tell the full story.

Adam Larson spent 2024-25 building custom tools to test these claims.

Nov 19 at DevCon NYC, Adam will share what actually matters when choosing AI coding tools — beyond the hype.

👉 Register at: ainativedev.co/px8

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 2d

The Nightmare Before Coding, workshop will be hosted at Tessl HQ, London, and livestreamed globally via Zoom.

So, if you’ve ever wanted to write a great technical story, or are still stuck trying to figure out what technical writing even is, this one’s for you!

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Learn Technical Storytelling This Halloween at the Spells & Syntax Workshop | HackerNoon

Learn how to tell great technical stories at Spells & Syntax, a free Halloween workshop by GadflyAI & HackerNoon. Write, code, and get published!

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 2d

Tomorrow, HackerNoon is teaming up with GadflyAI for a cyberpunk, Halloween-themed tech event that marries code, storytelling, and the open-source spirit.

Spells & Syntax: A Technical Writing Workshop. 🎃✍️🧙‍♂️

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Learn Technical Storytelling This Halloween at the Spells & Syntax Workshop | HackerNoon

Learn how to tell great technical stories at Spells & Syntax, a free Halloween workshop by GadflyAI & HackerNoon. Write, code, and get published!

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 3d

Bots follow scripts. Assistants wait for your commands. Agents act autonomously.

Maksim Shaposhnikov, AI Research Engineer at Tessl joins Simon to unpack the capabilities of AI coding agents, including how developers can test and trust the code they generate.

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AI Agents Beyond Context Limits | Maksim Shaposhnikov

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 3d

Want a banner ad under your bash prompt? Probably not, but Sourcegraph just made the world’s first ad-supported AI coding agent.

🔗 Read all about Amp Free here: ainativedev.co/znc

Amp’s new business model? Ad-supported AI coding

Amp is testing whether an ad-supported, data-sharing business model can work in software development.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 4d

Here are some of our wonderful speakers

Expect deep dives, live demos, and unfiltered conversations on how AI is reshaping the craft of software development, from agentic systems and specs to review workflows and human-in-the-loop design.

Head over to ainativedev.io/devcon to see the full line up!

A card containnig a photo of Guy Podjarny, Founder and CEO, Tessl, and the description of his talk "Spec Driven Dev - From Single Player to Multiplayer to Ecosystem"

A card containing a photo of James Ward, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS, and one of Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. Along with their workshop title "Hands-On: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon Bedrock"

A card containing a photo of Joseph Katsioloudes, Cyber Security Specialist at
GitHub, and the title of their talk "Code Security Reinvented:
Navigating the era of Al"

A card containing a photo of Richmond Alake, Staff Developer Advocate (AI/ML) at MongoDB, and the title of their talk "Building Memory-Augmented Agents with MemoRizz"

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 4d

DevCon

Stay up to date with the latest in AI Native Development—insights, real-world experiences, and news from developers and industry leaders.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jul 10

Whoever writes the spec controls the outcome.

In this future, the best developers are the best spec authors. What do you think?

We break down Grove’s talk and how to start experimenting with specs today.

🔗 ainativedev.co/yla

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jul 10

Prompts are temporary. Specs are forever.

OpenAI’s Sean Grove calls specs the “new code.” They force you to decide what good output looks like before you run the AI.

Think reusable clauses, version control, IDEs that validate your spec as you write. 🧵

#AINativeDev #AIEngineering

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jul 2

With some devs say they achieved 90% fewer errors its clear why 🔥

Catch the community’s takes in the full blog.
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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jul 2

AI coding tools are powerful, but without structure, they drift.

Claude Taskmaster attempts to fix that, and its growth has been explosive. In just 9 weeks the repo's jumped from 0 → 15,500 stars 🌟

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jul 1

Specs first → clearer intent → better output → code that adapts without drifting.

If stale tests and brittle glue code sound familiar, start here: Why Code Alone Isn’t Enough.

🔗 Read the article: ainativedev.co/fca
📺 Watch the talk: youtu.be/NTpu0XuQsDY

Why Code Alone Isn’t Enough: The Case for Code Specification (Spec-Driven Development) - AI Native Dev

The latest news and insights on AI powered dev tools and practices.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jul 1

Why code alone isn’t enough anymore 🚫💻

Most AI tools today just help us write more code, but the real shift is moving beyond code as the source of truth.

At our first London meetup, we dug into a better approach: spec-driven development.

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jun 30

We built Glaser, an AI code reviewer with stand-up comic energy: “48 code blocks? This README is more code than text!”

Structured, snarky AI. Ruby devs, check it out.
🔗 ainativedev.co/lyr

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jun 30

🔥 Roasting your README with AI?

Shopify just open-sourced Roast, a Ruby framework for reliable, versioned AI workflows.

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jun 30

Structure > force.

One structured prompt = same accuracy as eight unstructured ones (via Will Kurt, .txt).

For Claude Code users: clearer specs mean faster output, less context bloat, reusable prompts.

🔗 Read how specs can elevate your coding workflow.
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#ClaudeCode #SpecDriven

AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jun 23

Taming Claude Code for CI/CD?
Terminal setup is easy.
Scripting it for pipelines? Not so much!

Jump into a quick guide on automating Claude for DevOps:

✅ API key scripting
✅ Direct config edits
✅ MCP server setup
✅ Pre-set tool permissions

🔗 ainativedev.co/0qn

#ClaudeCode #AINativeDev #DevOps

Configuring Claude Code - AI Native Dev

The latest news and insights on AI powered dev tools and practices.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jun 20

It’s not just a tool. It’s part of a bigger shift toward spec-driven, agent-coordinated workflows.

Dive into the write up 👇
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#ainativedev #codingagents #devtools

How claude-task-master “Reduced 90% Errors for My Cursor” - AI Native Dev

The latest news and insights on AI powered dev tools and practices.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jun 20

Claude Taskmaster is blowing up in the AI dev world, and for good reason.

It takes messy prompts to clean specs and bite-sized, dependency-aware tasks.

Some devs report 90% fewer errors! 🧵

How claude-task-master “Reduced 90% Errors for My Cursor” - AI Native Dev

The latest news and insights on AI powered dev tools and practices.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · Jun 20

Agent-based coding ≠ just pair programming anymore.
We’re seeing something bigger:

▪️ Parallel agents handling subtasks
▪️ Isolated envs via git worktrees + containers
▪️ New UIs for merge + review

🔗 Your guide to parallelizing AI coding agents:
ainativedev.co/tg5

#ainativedev #aiagents