DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 6 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

GPTZero Reviews

DEV.to mentions (662)

• Your first Fitz LiveViews component, twice: SSR and WASM from one source

  In part 1 I made the pitch: real-time UI in one language, no JavaScript build. Now let's build something and ship it two ways from the same source. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• My Comment-Reply Queue Draft One Reply to a Thread and It Went Deaf to Every Follow-Up After That

  Def pending(): try: drafted_text = open(DRAFTS, encoding="utf-8").read() except FileNotFoundError: drafted_text = "" drafted_codes = set(re.findall(r"^## (\S+)", drafted_text, re.M)) out = [] for a in api(f"/articles?username={ME}&per_page=100"): if not a["comments_count"]: continue for c in api(f"/comments?a_id={a['id']}"): if not... - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

• Domain Search to Render: How the web works behind the scenes

  To think that all of this happens under the hood when I’m just trying to access YouTube to listen to my favorite music playlists to go through the day is insane! It all happens so quickly… to think that all eleven of these steps occur instantly when I was first entering a website like https://dev.to, for instance, is mind-blowing. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• Enjoy the Bubble While It Lasts: The Secret Behind Your AI Bill

  And keep an exit. This is the argument I made about small models from a different angle: the same task that costs $14,000/month at frontier scale often costs approximately nothing on a 4B model running on your own hardware. Not for everything - for the long tail of focused, repetitive work that makes up most of what we actually automate. Knowing which of your workflows would survive a 10x price increase is cheap... - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• From Full-Stack Developer to Tech Lead: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

  P.S originally it was only daily.dev. Now it is (dev.to)[https://dev.to] as well! - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

GPTZero mentions (75)

• Optimize an AI agent to sound human, judged by an AI detector

  AI-likeness is the target, and it's the one judge that has to live in code, because it isn't an LLM. You score the reply with GPTZero, an AI detector. The score is 1 - P(human): near 0 when GPTZero reads the reply as human, which is your goal, and near 1 for AI or mixed text. Lower is better, so the bootstrap marks the judge inverted and the optimizer drives the score down. - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

• Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization

  Obvious AI tells abound in the text and in the GitHub repo, which is clearly 100% vibe coded. If you cannot see this, then I don't know what to tell you. Actually, I do. For the text of the paper, paste any section after the "Introduction" section into https://gptzero.me/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Detecting AI Slop: Techniques & Red Flags

  GPTZero - Commercial AI detection service with free tier. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction

  Was curious, so I tried it in several different AI detectors to see what they returned. Most seemed to believe it was approximately 2/3 AI generated text. Primarily the first several paragraphs. Last, and second to last scored the best as "human". ZeroGPT said it was only 5% likely AI written. Couple sentences. Not sure if that means its actually AI written, cause there's lots of argument about false... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides

  For the benefit of external observers, you can stick the comment into either https://gptzero.me/ or https://copyleaks.com/ai-content-detector - neither are perfectly reliable, but the comment stuck out to me as obviously LLM-generated (I see a lot of LLM-generated content in my day job), and false positives from these services are actually kinda rare (false negatives much more common). But if you want to get a... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago