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Announcing the Hermes Agent Challenge! 

 🟣 Experiment with @NousResearch's open source agentic AI 🟣 2 prompts: build something useful OR publish a post about it 🟣 $1,000 prize pool. 8 winners total. Submissions due May 31!

Switching from a lightweight proxy to a full 26B MoE stack on TPU v6e-4 got a 2.5x TTFT improvement and the project's first verified speculative decoding config using n-gram. Here's what the benchmarks showed. Submitted for the Gemma 4 Challenge { author: xbill + @GoogleDevExpert } dev.to/gde/gemma4-spe…

A NAPLAN cram session turned into a no-signup quiz tool that grandparents now use over WhatsApp. This dev's most ruthless product reviewer? An 8-year-old who just walked away when something was boring. { author: @apostopher } dev.to/apostopher/i-b…

Gemma 4 hit 50M+ downloads and can now run powerful agentic workflows entirely offline and even on your phone. See how it self-corrected a physics simulation, built a food tour agent, and why the Apache 2 license changes everything. { author: @shirmeir86 + @GoogleAI } dev.to/googleai/agent…

No installs, no accounts, no cost. This dev built a full-featured vector design editor that runs entirely in the browser: 9 tools, 16 blend modes, smart snap guides, and export to PNG, WebP, JSON and more. { author: fayismahmood } dev.to/fayismahmood/l…

What if your team could @-mention a bot in Jira and get release notes, root cause drafts, or test suggestions in reply? This dev breaks down a 6-step implementation using existing infrastructure. No new services required. { author: @xianpengshen } dev.to/shenxianpeng/b…

What happens when a side project stops being a project and starts behaving like a system? This dev shares how a cross-country VRM avatar collab quietly became a reusable interaction engine, from animation bugs to modular dialogue logic. { author: @aryanc193 } dev.to/itsugo/two-dev…

Announcing the Hermes Agent Challenge! 

 🟣 Experiment with @NousResearch's open source agentic AI 🟣 2 prompts: build something useful OR publish a post about it 🟣 $1,000 prize pool. 8 winners total. Submissions due May 31!

@highcenburg We're working on getting it back up ASAP! Thanks for your patience 🙏

@ThePracticalDev When's the DEV shop coming back? I need to buy stuff before the end of June!

What was the highlight of your week? Tell us! 🌟 dev.to/devteam/what-w…

Why use a 31B model when a 4B one fits in 4–6 GB of RAM and runs on any laptop? This dev built a fully offline AI diagramming app and found that Thinking Mode made the small model's structured output dramatically more reliable. Submitted for the Gemma 4 Challenge. { author: @BarberoCbc + @GoogleDevExpert } dev.to/gde/local-firs…

AI video gen is powerful but getting a perfect 1:1 square output with clean audio sync is surprisingly tricky. This dev found a reliable workaround using NanoBanana 2, Veo 3.1 Lite, and a single FFmpeg crop filter. { author: @DynamicWebPaige + @GoogleAI } dev.to/googleai/hacki…

Arch Linux, the niri scrolling Wayland compositor, llama.cpp with ROCm, and a 27B model running fully offline on 128GB unified memory. This dev shares why local-first AI coding matters and exactly how the stack fits together. { author: @deepu105 } dev.to/deepu105/my-fu…

Multimodal RAG used to mean juggling a chunker, an embedding model, a vector DB, and a reranker. Now it's 4 SDK calls. This dev walks through Gemini Embedding 2's native image support and built a LINE Bot to prove it works. { author: @Evan_Lin + @GoogleDevExpert } dev.to/gde/gemini-api…

Ranked Showers is the hackathon project we didn't know we needed. The team used hardware sensors, Gemini AI for audio verification, and custom Solana coins to gamify hygiene for devs. Stay clean, climb the leaderboard, and earn rewards! See the build: devpost.com/software/showe…

Switching from bf16 to bfloat16 wasn't just a typo fix — it unlocked a 64K context window and ~0.5M tokens/sec peak throughput on a TPU v6e-4. The real win was stability, not raw speed. Submitted for the Gemma 4 Challenge. { author: xbill + @GoogleDevExpert } dev.to/gde/is-brain-f…

One of the first deep dives into wiring Google Workspace MCP servers to Gemini CLI. Gmail, Drive, Calendar, People — all connected via OAuth 2.0 with working demos included. { author: xbill + @GoogleDevExpert } dev.to/gde/mcp-config…

What happens when the work we freely shared online becomes the training data used to replace us? This dev makes the case for opt-in consent, data removal, and a mandatory pay-per-citation model for LLMs. { author: @jcarlosweb } dev.to/jcarlosweb/the…

Running MCP servers in production? "MCP security" isn't one thing — it's four, each solving a different problem at a different point in the tool call lifecycle. Most teams ship the wrong layer first. { author: @kcrazy } dev.to/kcrazy/compile…

I posted a 6-part #series on @ThePracticalDev regarding the CONTRACT-Style-Comments methodology: dev.to/ajaxstardust/s… #architecture #designpatterns #agents #aiagents