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What's the best way to provide context for AI agents? The answer: establishing a "spec-first" workflow, according to Andrew Evans, Principal Engineer & Tech Lead at CarMax. Evans walks through a method for building a spec-first workflow using Claude Code.

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The future of AI-assisted development isn’t just about the model you use. It's about how you shape it to fit your team. David Turnbull, Staff Content Design Engineer at Lingo.dev, shares six tips that help you move beyond simply entering prompts into a text box. 

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 How do you trust AI when you can't reliably predict its output?  Alexandra Spalato, full-stack developer and fractional AI officer, is using n8n to help devs move from “I think my AI works” to “I have measured its accuracy at 98% under these conditions.”

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Shruti Kapoor writes about the four layers that underly every production-grade AI system: compute & foundational models, data & retrieval, deployment & orchestration, and observability & optimization.

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Software engineer and YouTuber Jack Herrington warns that automating the very tasks that once taught devs how to think critically and debug in the wild could leave us without anyone to step into senior roles.

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