Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week.

Congrats to all the authors that made it onto the list 👏

LangChain4J musings, six months after

Nicolas Fränkel ・ May 1

#java #langchain4j #mcp #llm

@nfrankel highlights the the ups and downs of integrating Model Context Protocol with LangChain4J.

XYZ% of Code is Now Written by AI... Who Cares?

Maxim Saplin ・ May 1

#ai #softwareengineering #coding #programming

@maximsaplin challenges AI code generation claims by tech CEOs, sharing their experience where they ultimately deleted 70% of AI-generated code and emphasizing that software development involves much more than just writing code.

Welcome Sury - The fastest schema with next-gen DX 🚀

Dmitry Zakharov ・ Apr 28

#typescript #schema #json #validation

@dzakh introduces Sury, a TypeScript-first schema validation library featuring readable API, excellent type inference, bidirectional schemas that parse and serialize data with exceptional performance, and more!

AI Agents: how they work and how to build them

Slobodan Stojanović for AWS Heroes ・ May 3

#ai #llm #programming #aws

@slobodan explains AI agents as "while loops" with tools, demonstrating how to build a vacation tracker agent using Claude on AWS and showing practical architectural options for implementation.

Redis Lost. Or did they?!

Jonas Scholz ・ May 1

#cloud #devops #redis #opensource

@code42cate analyzes Redis's license reversal strategy after hyperscalers forked their database, questioning whether returning to open source after forcing cloud providers to maintain their own forks might be clever rather than defeat.

Vibe coding for a gamejam

Jack Le Hamster ・ Apr 29

#gamedev #vibecoding #cursor #ai

@jacklehamster shares their two-hour gamejam experience using Cursor AI, reflecting on how vibe coding enabled rapid development but limited their understanding of the underlying game mechanics.

Turn any git repo into llm readable format

TZGyn ・ May 2

#webdev #javascript #beginners #ai

@tzgyn demonstrates creating a JavaScript implementation of gitingest that enhances GitHub repository conversion to LLM-friendly formats with Gemini and Mistral OCR for improved image and PDF processing.

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