A beginner’s guide to Instructor: Get Structured Outputs from LLMs
DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:31

A beginner’s guide to Instructor: Get Structured Outputs from LLMs

LLMs generate text by predicting the next best token. Pass the same prompt twice and you might get two different outputs. Sometimes it's a clean JSON object. Sometimes it's the same data wrapped in markdown fences and a paragraph of explanation you didn't ask for. Often, you don't need the full response. You just need specific parts of it to feed into an API, store in a database, or pass to the n...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:30

Help me with DSA... PLEASE

I know this sounds stupid but... HELP ME WITH DSA I am a student of computer engineering and starting to learn DSA. I am more into project stuffs. I like and do web dev projects. I know Javascript (obviously from web dev), Python (come on who does not know this lang) , and C as my college is of stone age. The problem is DSA is vast and i do not know where to start at all. I know time complexity a...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:28

AI Needs Curriculum, Not Better Prompts

You've been there. The prompt that should work. The rephrase that feels clever. The context you're sure will fix it this time. And the AI just keeps barreling forward ... confident, eager, completely lost. I was in that spiral over a year and a half ago, trying to get a module refactored. Each exchange felt like I was getting dumber. The AI wasn't being difficult. It was being helpful in exactly...

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AI Agent Platform with Secure Notion Integration
DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:23

AI Agent Platform with Secure Notion Integration

AI agents are showing up everywhere. Companies want them to automate workflows, help teams move faster, and connect massive stores of company knowledge in platforms like Notion. But in practice, I’ve seen a lot of teams hit walls. Integrations get messy. Security becomes a concern. Suddenly, shipping an “AI Notion assistant” is not as simple as it looked on paper. So, I set out to find the best...

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MCP Tool Hooks in Claude Code
DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:22

MCP Tool Hooks in Claude Code

Your hooks run shell scripts. Every time a hook needs to call an MCP server, it spawns a subprocess, wires up transport, handles auth, parses the response, and formats JSON back to stdout. For a security check that fires on every file write, that overhead adds up fast. As of Claude Code v2.1.118, there is a cleaner path. Hooks have a new type that calls MCP tools directly. No subprocess. The MCP ...

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How I Built Qualioro — A Software Quality Intelligence Tool
DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:21

How I Built Qualioro — A Software Quality Intelligence Tool

Most teams don’t lack effort — they lack visibility into code quality. That’s something I kept noticing while working on projects. You ship features, fix bugs, and keep moving… but you rarely have a clear answer to a simple question: “Is this codebase actually in a good state?” So I decided to build something that tries to answer that. The Idea Qualioro is a lightweight tool that ta...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:21

Fighting Fire with Fire: AI's Spam Problem Demands New Architecture

The Moderation Treadmill Google's latest content moderation systems are wrestling with a problem that feels almost Kafkaesque: using generative AI to detect and remove AI-generated spam, harassment, and abuse. On the surface, it's logical. AI-generated content moves at inhuman scale and speed. Only AI can respond at matching velocity. But there's a structural flaw in this approach that...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:20

Agentic AI for App Modernization What the Accenture WaveMaker Bet Means

Legacy application modernization has always been expensive, slow, and risky — but for mid-market companies sitting on portfolios of aging Java, .NET, or COBOL systems, it has historically been nearly impossible to justify at scale. The Accenture–WaveMaker partnership targets exactly this gap, pairing a low-code platform with agentic AI orchestration to automate the most labor-intensive parts of th...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:19

What 253 Enterprises Are Actually Investing In (Hint: It's Not Just AI)

If you read the trade press, every enterprise on earth is doing exactly one thing right now: AI. Every keynote, every analyst note, every LinkedIn post says the same thing. AI-first. Agent-native. Foundation-model-powered. So we went and looked at what enterprises are actually spending money on. Not what their CMOs are saying. What their engineering orgs are hiring for, contributing to, and buyin...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:15

Project-Lwanga:De 5 MB a 8 KB: el lenguaje ugandés que te hará odiar tus dependencias (y amar el shellcode)

Imagina que estás en un atolladero. Llevas horas peleándote con un binario de 5 MB que intenta hacer un humble port scan. Y tú, en tu infinita desesperación, te preguntas “por cojones, ¿por qué esto tiene que pesar tanto?”. Pues resulta que la culpa es del mundo, con sus librerías enormes, sus dependencias infinitas y su manía de hacerte la vida imposible. Y de repente, alguien desde Kampala (¡K...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:15

kerncms: Open-source Self-Hosted Headless CMS with AI Schema Generation

👋 Introduction If you've ever wanted a self-hosted, Git-based CMS that just works — without the complexity of traditional systems — meet kerncms. Kern is an open-source headless CMS built for developers who want full control over their content infrastructure without vendor lock-in, pricing tiers, or complicated setups. 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/fiioonnn/kerncms 🌐 Website: https://k...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:12

Zero-Trust Logging: Secure Vector.dev Pipelines on GCP with Workload Identity

(Introduction) Modern observability pipelines require more than just moving data from point A to point B; they require enterprise-grade security. When running Vector.dev on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), many engineers fall into the trap of using static JSON Service Account keys. These keys are a security liability. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to implement a more secure approach using GCP W...

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Deploy Your App and Add an AI Agent to Ship Tickets, With Your Own API Key
DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:11

Deploy Your App and Add an AI Agent to Ship Tickets, With Your Own API Key

You have a Node.js or Python project on GitHub. It runs locally. You want it live, and you want an AI agent that can pick up a ticket, write the code, and open a PR for you to review. This guide walks through exactly that, using Open Source Cloud (OSC) as the infrastructure layer. You bring your own Git repo and your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key. OSC handles the hosting and wires the agent loo...

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Building QuickArchViz: turning 3D models into renders
DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:07

Building QuickArchViz: turning 3D models into renders

A few months ago, I started building QuickArchViz — a tool that turns 3D model screenshots into architectural visualizations in seconds. The idea came from a very simple frustration I had in the past when I was still an architect: My models were ready, but I still needed to make the visualizations for the client Rendering takes time. It costs money. And every client meeting resets the whole proc...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:06

Agent Fever Meets Reality: Security Gaps Nobody's Talking About

The Agent Deployment Paradox AI agents are moving fast. Enterprises are deploying them into production workflows with genuine business impact—automating customer support, processing invoices, managing infrastructure, orchestrating data pipelines. The efficiency gains are real. The problem is equally real: security thinking is lagging three versions behind. Most enterprises treat agent ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:06

Origin Part 5: We Threw Out the Decoder

Monolithic 637K-parameter GRU out. Five tiny specialist heads in. Counting tripled. Physics doubled. No more cliffs. If you've read Parts 1 through 4, you already know the pattern: when a piece of OLT-1 isn't working, we don't make it bigger. We sandbox-test the alternatives, pick the one that actually wins, and keep what works. This is the post where that pattern hit the decoder. The...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-24 13:05

The Era of Citizens United Could Be Nearing Its End

Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/04/citizens-united-electoral-corruption-case Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889664 Points: 18 # Comments: 1

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Providing Storage for the IT Testing and Training Department : A Step-by-Step Guide.
DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:04

Providing Storage for the IT Testing and Training Department : A Step-by-Step Guide.

What is Azure Storage Azure storage is Microsoft's-managed cloud-based storage service that allows individuals and organizations to store, manage, and access data such as files, Blobs and more. Azure Storage is used in applications such as serving videos, pictures, game content, PDFs, and any other content stored on a user's computer. It is known for its highly scalable, reliable, secu...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:03

The Tool-First Protocol: Stop Doing Manually What Your Agent Can Do Better

The Tool-First Protocol: Stop Doing Manually What Your Agent Can Do Better Every session I've had with a new user, there's a moment that goes like this: User: "Can you check if the cron job ran yesterday?" Me: "Yes." runs openclaw cron runs <job-id> Me: "It ran successfully at 9:04 AM. Next run is tomorrow 9 AM." User: "Oh, I was going to do that manually." This happens constan...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-24 13:02

One MCP server, four clients, zero translation dead ends

I wanted to tell my girlfriend something real in Farsi — not phrasebook real, actually real — and every translation tool gave me one answer with no indication of whether it was formal, casual, intimate, or strange. That's how konid started. The tool returns 3 options for anything you want to say, ordered casual to formal, with the register of each option explained and the cultural nuance between ...

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