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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 12/11/2025

AI hates legacy code. AI coding agents feel like magic... right up until they collide with production code. For teams maintaining legacy systems, these agents often hallucinate APIs, run off on tangents, and shatter trust faster than an unreviewed hotfix at 5pm. 🧵 1/3

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 11/11/2025

What is happening in the world of AI native development today? These are builders who've already solved the problems you're probably hitting right now. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC. 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84 Use the discount code AIND-X-50 to get 50% off your tickets.

- Al Harris (Tech Lead, Kiro ) on evolving specs while building. Because requirements change faster than your AI can code them, and you need a system that handles that without breaking everything.

- Rotem Tamir (Co-creator, Atlas ) on putting guardrails on database operations with agents. Your AI shouldn't be able to drop tables. How do you give it enough access to be useful without giving it enough rope to hang itself?

- Alex Gavrilescu (Lead Backend and Web Developer, Funstage GmbH) took Backlog.md from zero to a working product with AI agents. The messy middle between "I have an idea" and "we have a product" - what actually worked.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 06/11/2025

From endless tool lists to meaningful rankings, Alan Pope, DevRel at Tessl, Simon Maple on AI Native Dev to unpack what defines ‘good’ in an open ecosystem and the tools that have helped him replace manual effort. Catch their full conversation now. Links in the comments.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 06/11/2025

At the AI Native DevCon, you'll find workshops with practitioners who are deep in the weeds: Bring your dev environments, and let's learn together. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC. 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

Richmond Alake (AI Developer Experience at Oracle) building memory-augmented agents with MemoRizz. Because agents without memory are just expensive autocomplete.

Alex Gavrilescu (Lead Backend Dev, Greentube GmbH) running hands-on with backlog.md - using markdown to power the entire review flow from spec to PR. This is about rethinking how AI fits into your existing workflow.

Joseph Katsioloudes (Cyber Security Specialist, GitHub) on LLM security in practice. Not theory. Actual attack vectors and defenses you need to know when your whole codebase is touched by AI.

Lada Kesseler (Lead Developer, Logic 20/20) digging into emerging patterns for coding with generative AI. The stuff that's working in production right now.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 05/11/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬-𝐢𝐧-𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞. Each session is code-on-screen, showing real use cases. If you’re building with or for devs, this is the track you don’t skip 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th, NYC. 👉 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) + Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom) - Building AI Agents with Spring & MCP — a hands-on look at connecting Spring apps to AI agents through the new MCP protocol.

Liral Tal (Director of Developer Advocacy, Snyk) — These Aren’t the Tools You’re Looking For: MCP Security Awakens — a demo that brings security and protocol-level control to AI-driven workflows.

Joseph Katsioloudes (Cyber Security Specialist, GitHub) — Code Security Reinvented: Navigating the Era of AI - see how AI is reshaping secure development from inside the world’s largest developer platform.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 03/11/2025

The NOW track at DevCon - this is the stuff that actually works today. Not demos. Not beta waitlists. Production-ready. This isn't about what's coming. It's about what's working right now that you can use Monday morning. 📍 DevCon is Nov 18-19th. NYC. 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

Nnenna Ndukwe ~ AI and Emerging Technology (Principal Developer Advocate, Qodo) explaining why you need separation of agentic concerns. One AI model trying to do everything is a recipe for disaster. She's seen it fail.

René Brandel (Cofounder & CEO, Casco (YC X25)) sharing how they hacked the YC Spring 2025 batch's AI agents. Real tactics from someone who just did it.

Brian Douglas (Head of DX, Continue) on virtual tool calling and portable AI toolchains. This is about making your AI integrations work across different environments without rewriting everything.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 31/10/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝. Not demos. but hands-on time with practitioners who are building the AI dev stack right now. These are working sessions. Bring your dev laptop. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84 #AINDCon

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Shrey Shah (Cursor Ambassador & Senior Engineer, Vivun) on the reality of testing and securing AI-generated code when your whole team is using Cursor

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Bill Maxwell (Software Architect, Obot AI) diving deep into MCP - the emerging standard for how AI agents actually connect to your tools

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): Simon Maple (Head of DevRel) + Macey Baker (Community Engineer) from Tessl showing how to actually supercharge coding agents beyond the basic autocomplete

A promotional card with headshots of the presenter(s): James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) + Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom) running a hands-on session building production agents with Spring AI, Java, and Bedrock

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 30/10/2025

The Edge track at AI Native DevCon is about emerging ideas in AI development that aren't fully polished yet. These are practitioners working through problems that don't have established solutions yet. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC. 👉 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84

Chris Messina (Product Designer) on how to thrive when code becomes a commodity in the age of generative AI.

Sean Roberts (Technical Advisor, Netlify) on high-voltage development workflows that make AI tooling work in real engineering teams.

Jennifer Sand and Brandy Pielech (Co-Founders, Codential.ai) on what you actually need to verify in AI-generated code - beyond just running tests.

George Fahmy (Founder & CEO, Stakpak) on building DevOps agents that won't accidentally delete your production database.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 29/10/2025

AI models claim to be best at coding, but benchmarks don't tell the full story. Adam Larson spent 2024-25 building custom tools to test these claims. Nov 19 at DevCon NYC, Adam will share what actually matters when choosing AI coding tools — beyond the hype. 👉 Register at: ainativedev.co/px8

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 28/10/2025

Here are some of our wonderful speakers Expect deep dives, live demos, and unfiltered conversations on how AI is reshaping the craft of software development, from agentic systems and specs to review workflows and human-in-the-loop design. Head over to ainativedev.io/devcon to see the full line up!

A card containnig a photo of Guy Podjarny, Founder and CEO, Tessl, and the description of his talk "Spec Driven Dev - From Single Player to Multiplayer to Ecosystem"

A card containing a photo of James Ward, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS, and one of Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. Along with their workshop title "Hands-On: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon Bedrock"

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GitHub, and the title of their talk "Code Security Reinvented:
Navigating the era of Al"

A card containing a photo of Richmond Alake, Staff Developer Advocate (AI/ML) at MongoDB, and the title of their talk "Building Memory-Augmented Agents with MemoRizz"

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 10/07/2025

Prompts are temporary. Specs are forever. OpenAI’s Sean Grove calls specs the “new code.” They force you to decide what good output looks like before you run the AI. Think reusable clauses, version control, IDEs that validate your spec as you write. 🧵 #AINativeDev #AIEngineering

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 02/07/2025

AI coding tools are powerful, but without structure, they drift. Claude Taskmaster attempts to fix that, and its growth has been explosive. In just 9 weeks the repo's jumped from 0 → 15,500 stars 🌟

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 01/07/2025

Why code alone isn’t enough anymore 🚫💻 Most AI tools today just help us write more code, but the real shift is moving beyond code as the source of truth. At our first London meetup, we dug into a better approach: spec-driven development.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 30/06/2025

We built Glaser, an AI code reviewer with stand-up comic energy: “48 code blocks? This README is more code than text!” Structured, snarky AI. Ruby devs, check it out. 🔗 ainativedev.co/lyr

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 30/06/2025

Structure > force. One structured prompt = same accuracy as eight unstructured ones (via Will Kurt, .txt). For Claude Code users: clearer specs mean faster output, less context bloat, reusable prompts. 🔗 Read how specs can elevate your coding workflow. ainativedev.co/bm3 #ClaudeCode #SpecDriven

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 20/06/2025

Agent-based coding ≠ just pair programming anymore. We’re seeing something bigger: ▪️ Parallel agents handling subtasks ▪️ Isolated envs via git worktrees + containers ▪️ New UIs for merge + review 🔗 Your guide to parallelizing AI coding agents: ainativedev.co/tg5 #ainativedev #aiagents

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 17/06/2025

Read the full writeup up: 🔗 ainativedev.co/g78 #AINativeDev #GenAI #DeveloperTools

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 11/06/2025

📝 Specs are the new code. Prompting was just the start. The next level of AI-native development is Specification Driven Development and Sean Grove (OpenAI) nailed why 🧵

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 10/06/2025

devs: you might want to try this one 👀 Mistral's new open-source model for coding agents, Devstral, hit 46.8% on SWE-bench verified. That’s higher than some proprietary giants. We tested it, check out the write up! ainativedev.co/fa9 #ainative #opensourceai #devstral

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 09/06/2025

Connecting your agent to GitHub? Invariant uncovered a case where a malicious issue can prompt your agent to leak private repo data to a public PR. No malware involved, just prompt injection.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 03/06/2025

GitHub’s Copilot Agent now runs in the cloud; drafting PRs, writing code, and iterating on reviews autonomously. It respects CI rules and repo protections, and uses server configs (MCP) for tool access. We got hands-on with the dev experience: 🔗 ainativedev.co/chg #Build2025 #AIdev #AINativeDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 30/05/2025

Most code models generate one token at a time. Gemini Diffusion doesn’t. It denoises full sequences in parallel, with: - Major speed gains (~5x over Gemini Flash) - Built-in error correction Is it production-ready? Not yet. Is it interesting? We think so. ➡️ www.ainativedev.co/99j #LLM#AI

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 29/05/2025

Sourcegraph's Amp is now open to everyone! Amp is their new agentic coding tool built for deep prompting, VS Code-native workflows, and real developer feedback loops. Dion Almaer comments on this release: www.ainativedev.co/a00 #AINativeDev #AITools #VSCode #AgenticCoding

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 28/05/2025

Gemini Diffusion might be easy to overlook, but it could quietly shift how code gets generated. Instead of predicting tokens left to right, it refines full sequences in parallel. - ~1500 tokens/sec. - Less locked-in errors. - Better for editing and refactoring. ➡️ www.ainativedev.co/99j

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 28/05/2025

12 MCP Servers That Will Make You A More Productive Developer. MCP servers are like APIs for your agent’s brain. You define the tools. The agent learns to use them. And suddenly, your LLM can run a Docker container or file a GitHub issue. 👉 12 MCP servers to tinker with: www.ainativedev.co/409

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 28/05/2025

What actually changes when AI becomes part of your dev workflow? At DevCon 2025, 30+ speakers dug into this new reality. Read the best bits 👉 www.ainativedev.co/bea #AITools #AgenticAI #DeveloperTools

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 26/05/2025

Coding a Pet Adoption App in Spring AI. Breaking down AI security with Snyk's CTO. Watching Intercom’s Fin in production. AI Native DevCon 2025 hit hard. Catch the top talks: 👉 www.ainativedev.co/bea #AITools #AgenticAI #DeveloperTools

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 22/05/2025

One of the most interesting announcements at I/O got just a few seconds of airtime: Gemini Diffusion. A diffusion-based language model that: • Generates in parallel, not left-to-right • Hits ~1500 tokens/sec • Can self-correct mid-generation Read all about it here: www.ainativedev.co/99j

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 22/05/2025

The future of software dev isn’t just “better models”, it’s with better context and enhanced workflows. GitHub’s MCP server gives Copilot a full gateway into repo workflows. - Open source - Go-based - Protocol-native. This is how chat becomes both code and action -> www.ainativedev.co/5a4

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 21/05/2025

Missed AI Native DevCon Spring 2025? We've welcomed 30+ speakers to discuss AI Today, AI tomorrow, and New Tools in Action. Talks covered: • Agentic workflows in production • Dev job shifts in AI-first teams • Chat-Oriented Programming Catch all the moments 👉 www.ainativedev.co/bea

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 21/05/2025

Jonathan Ellis built DataStax (acquired by IBM). Now he’s building something new. Brokk is a Java-based code intelligence engine designed to help AI reason across large, complex codebases. It’s early, open source, and doing things ASTs can’t: www.ainativedev.co/d0v #AINativeDev #DevTools

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 21/05/2025

At the AI Native DevCon 2025, Guy Podjarny shares a vision for how AI can start giving real commitments, not just code suggestions. Discover more about it in Patrick Debois' review: www.ainativedev.co/jbi #AINativeDev #DevTools #FutureOfDevelopment

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 21/05/2025

The GitHub MCP server lets you ask Copilot things like: “Show me my private repos” or “Close this issue.” It’s not doing anything you couldn’t script before - but now it’s structured, context-aware, and a meaningful step forward for repo/agentic workflows -> www.ainativedev.co/5a4

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 20/05/2025

Better prompts won’t fix trust. We need to move from AI that suggests to AI that commits. Read Patrick Debois’s take on Guy Podjarny’s perspective on spec-centric software development: www.ainativedev.co/jbi #AINativeDev #DevTools #FutureOfDevelopment

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 19/05/2025

GitHub released its own MCP server. You can now use Copilot to do things like: - Find files across a repo - Open issues - Query repo state With Copilot's open-sourcing on VS Code, devs get richer context, greater customization, and enhanced workflows -> www.ainativedev.co/5a4

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 19/05/2025

Brokk uses Joern to give its AI platform rich type-aware context (even across huge, messy codebases). It’s not Python. It’s not JavaScript. -> It’s early, JVM-bound, and it's open source: www.ainativedev.co/d0v #AINativeDev #Brokk #DevTools #OpenSourceDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 19/05/2025

@sjmaple and Joe swapped codebases and AI tools—Cursor vs Windsurf—and tried to add natural disasters to each other’s town sims. No prep. No context. No mercy. The result? Brittle code, broken loops, and real insights into how AI tools behave under time pressure: www.ainativedev.co/3a5

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 16/05/2025

Can AI keep its Commitments? Can We Trust AI to Deliver? Guy Podjarny, founder at Tessl (and Snyk), discusses building trust through specification-driven development at the AI Native DevCon 2025. ➡️ www.ainativedev.co/jbi #AINativeDev #SoftwareEngineering #DevTools #FutureOfDevelopment

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 15/05/2025

Lovable 2.0 just shipped chat‑to‑app agents, custom domain deploys & tighter security. Great for PMs & designers, but can it ship production code? Read about this news piece on:-> www.ainativedev.co/l20 #AINativeDev #DevTools #Lovable

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 15/05/2025

Code can break down when context gets too big. Jonathan Ellis, co-founder of DataStax (acquired by IBM), built Brokk in an attempt to fix it. No Tree Sitter involved, but full type inference with Joern. Dion Almaer takes a spin with it in: www.ainativedev.co/d0v #AINativeDev #Brokk #DevTool

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 14/05/2025

History repeats: Visual Basic empowered non-coders decades ago. Lovable 2.0 now does the same with AI. Can it truly democratize app-building, or will dev oversight remain essential? Explore this exciting news with @bapfernandez.bsky.social -> www.ainativedev.co/l20 #AINativeDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 14/05/2025

Two devs. Two fragile AI-coded towns. One surprise prompt: “Add natural disasters.” Simon Maple and Joe Holdcroft dive into each other’s unfinished prototypes using Cursor and Windsurf. The exchange takes an interesting turn: www.ainativedev.co/3a5 #AINativeDev #BASE44 #Cursor #Windsurf

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 14/05/2025

Our own @dalmaer spent weeks testing Claude Code. His verdict? It's exciting, especially if you pair it with clear specs. Check out his workflows and practical tips: www.ainativedev.co/1xk #ClaudeCode #AINativeDev #DevTools #Anthropic

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 13/05/2025

@RealGeneKim just spent time with the infamous Steve Yegge, vibe coding 12K LoC/day... and he has stories to share from the experience! #AINativeDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 13/05/2025

What do you think these are without knowing any context? 🙂 #AINativeDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 13/05/2025

Ray Myers is going to maybe make us feel a lil uncomfortable as he asks: Will the developers’ role evolve, or vanish entirely? Are we heading toward an Innovator’s Paradise or an Infinite Pile of Garbage? #AINativeDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 13/05/2025

Danny Allan, CTO of Snyk: "Just because you can speak to a prompt, does that make you a developer?" Talking about the craft of software and how concerns around security meet Gen AI. #AINativeDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 13/05/2025

History throwback: early Java suffered XML chaos until lightweight standards saved the day. We are repeating that pattern with AI tooling. See why we need unified rules—and how solutions like vibe-rules CLI help bridge the gap. Article by Dion Almaer ➜ www.ainativedev.co/nbp #AINativeDev

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 13/05/2025

Claude Code lets you orchestrate multiple coding agents from your terminal—review competing implementations, iterate, and ship faster. Dion Almaer shares his best practices here: www.ainativedev.co/1xk #AINativeDev #DevTools #AIDevelopment

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 12/05/2025

“Config sprawl” is the 2025 version of dependency hell. One repo, five AI rules files, zero clarity. Our latest post shows how a small CLI—vibe-rules—keeps every .yaml, .json, and llms.txt in lock‑step. Article by the great Dion Almaer ➜ www.ainativedev.co/nbp #AINativeDev #DevTools #AIDevelopment

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