Cat RPG dungeon masters, sub-agent myths, a robot with personality, and more!

Hey there! Welcome to our newsletter, where we update you on what’s going on in the DEV world.

Last week we announced winners for both the Gemma 4 Challenge and Hermes Agent Challenge. Thank you everyone for making our recent challenges some of our most participated-in yet. Be sure to check out all the amazing winning projects from last week and stay up to date with future challenge announcements by following #devchallenge.

Here are some discussions you might want to jump in on:

• Working on a silly project - share your favorite AI buzzwords/phrases and general key terms with me please!!

• Dev Opportunity Radar #4: Anthropic Fellows, $30K for Founders, and AWS She Builds

We also want to give a shoutout to our friends at Founders For Founders and encourage entrepreneurial students in the community to apply to their 6-week summer bootcamp.

Have a great week ❤️

As always, here are our favorite posts from last week in no particular order:

• I Built a Cyberpunk Cat RPG to Teach Production AI Architecture: hands-on insights into making AI agent reliability patterns concrete by building them into a working demo.

• AI Isn't Something to Trust — It's Something to Design (Series Final): one developer's take on designing AI harnesses, plus an honest look at the trial and error along the way.

• Coding a Robot's Personality: HRI with the Open Duck Mini, Animations, Vibe Coding, and Gemini Live: real experiences with giving a robot personality through custom animation tooling and the Gemini Live API.

• You don't need sub-agents: rethinking multi-agent orchestration through the lens of a coordination problem identified back in 1975.

• The Risk of Losing Your Know-how and Identity: Microsoft Satya Nadella's Warning on AI: exploring Nadella's "token capital" framing and what's at stake when companies hand workflows to outside AI models.

• How I use premortems with Claude and Codex: practical take on getting sharper feedback from AI agents by asking them to assume a plan already failed.

• Who Here Has Worked with Legacy? The Longer You Wait, the Worse It Gets: lessons learned about choosing between a big bang rewrite and a strangler pattern migration.

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Here are some standout wins from this week's discussion:

• @hemapriya_kanagala: made it into DEV's Top 7 for the first time 🎉

• @pascal_cescato_692b7a8a20: rebuilt their professional site with Astro and scored a clean sweep of 100s 🧹

• @netops76: built a podcast using AI reasoning agents for research and ElevenLabs for text-to-speech 🎙️

• @tomnighy: turned Blogger into a no-backend JavaScript module host for a browser app 🧩

• @earlgreyhot1701d: launched agentislux.io after a genuinely challenging build 💛

Well done, everyone!

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