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A huge thank you to the team at Google AI for joining as a ποΈ Diamond Sponsor and official AI partner. We have a bunch of awesome collaborations in the works to help elevate new opportunities, launch new features, and ultimately improve the DEV experience for everyone in the community.
Neat! Congrats @peter @ben @jess ! Excited to see how this enhances and inspires the community
This is huge news β congratulations to the DEV team on this incredible partnership! π It's great to see such a strong focus on community-first AI integration. The emphasis on thoughtful feature design and skill-building opportunities (like the challenges and learning tracks) really stands out. I'm especially excited to see how Gemini will enhance content discovery and foster deeper connections within the platform.
Looking forward to seeing how this collaboration unfolds β and how it continues to empower developers at every level.
Looks cool
You're deserved DEV Team, congraats!β₯οΈ
Thanks!
Nice!
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Looking forward to seeing what comes of this! I'm hesitant about parts of AI but kind of understand it's a huge part of the future of my work.
Reasonable feelings!
Hopefully we can use it to fight the spam posts we get every day. It'd be great if inside the Moderation tag, we could see a "semaphore-like" indicator next to every new post to moderate. Based on the subject, account age, amount of published posts in the last 24 hours, etc.
Great ideas!
And yes: Spam-fighting is a huge huge huge reason for this.
We need to scale and improve our efforts β of course to combat smarter AI-generated spam.
Really great thing to thought about, Good point you brought here.
Super news! Congrats @peter @ben @jess Itβll help to distinguish high quality posts from spam, low quality, completely AI generated content π
I have been writing many posts about Gemini.
And, like both Gemini and DEV Community, so this news is very interesting! π€―
Glad to hear
Gemini is excellent, already delivered 2 apps to clients where they can actually choose time as a parameter to get a response.
Love to see this community is getting big and more attentions!
That's awesome news for devto π₯
This is amazing news! Canβt wait to see how Google AI and DEV work together to bring smarter tools and learning opportunities to the community.
This is awesome @ben
Can I work on creating learning tracks for the community here?
Interesting question! Learning tracks mean a few things and we don't have any member-generated stuff in the works specifically for learning tracks but it is something we should think about. cc @jess
Yes, I would love to help people learn about AI, RAG, Search, NLP and Python. Given my experience in SWE, DevRel and building OSS projects if there's somewhere I can help or assist in. You already know how to contact me π
Is this really happening? This is such a cool news. Congrats!
Yup!
Exciting!
Congrats DEV Team π₯³π
Really Excited for this :)
great!
Great to see Google AI teaming up with DEV. Excited for the new tools and learning experiences this collaboration will unlock for developers.
Wow this is amazing!
Congratulations !
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Congratulations, this is a great partnership. Thank you for making us part of your success
Congrats, happy for it
Pretty neat!
This is a great opportunity to learn from real-world AI applications
Congratulations to the DEV team π₯
Wonderful news!
wow, really good news!
They can be a HacktoberfestΒ΄s sponsor too?
We can put in the good word
Exciting partnership!
Super excited to work with you all : )
Veri interesting!
great news
excited
me, deleting a bunch of drafts on how AI is killing the industry
NICE PARTNERSHIP, LONG LIVE AI IN OUR INDUSTRY, WELCOME TO DEV, GOOGLE!
Please keep Gemini from the writing process. I don't want its suggestion while I'm writing a post or making comments. Super annoying when it interrupts the process.
Yup, no plans on integrating anything like that
We want to embrace the things people love about being part of spaces like this, including and especially expressing things in their own voice.
We hope that anything shipped feels subtle and additive and not rushed stuff that screams "We have AI!!"
thanks!
It's a balance of being loud with the announcement to ensure visibility and transparency β as well as making sure everyone who is excited about the learning tracks and challenges sees it β while emphasizing a measured and thoughtful approach.
A pre-post error finder/tone evaluator would be interesting. Currently I copy my posts over to gemini just before posting to get a hand with proof reading.
This is so cool! Congratulations!!
I'm excited for the changes and new challenges
Sounds wonderful! Very happy for you all
Not cool. Sad. AI, AI everywhere, and even without the AI hype, I'd rather hope the DEV community aimed for more open source and independence from commercial (US American) companies.
Yeah, such kinds of partnerships are always a bit alarmingβ¦ At least itβs not Natashaβ¦
I tend to have the same feelings, but I'm afraid it's a lost battle (well I think there isn't even a battle at all) - AI isn't going away and we need to "deal" with it, whether we like it or not ... I'm afraid it's just a matter of "adapt or perish", and rather than resisting it tooth and nail it's probably better to embrace the good (useful) aspects of AI, while still making an effort to combat the negative sides ...
Yes and no. Yes, letΒ΄s embrace the positive aspects and keep learning. On the other hand, let's not waste too much time exploring the depths of a volatile trend. Because "artificial intelligence", in its current, form will be obsoleted by something else and people will get tired of the buzzword, just like few people are advertising Web3 and blockchain anymore. But one thing that generative LLM-based AI already changed is the task of content creation.
I don't want to waste my efforts crafting a valuable post and publish it for free, when I know it will be scraped by machines to help other people write their clickbait posts, like 25 things every dev must know about AI, basically remixing stolen content that others have taken time and effort to research, experiment and make up their own minds. Let them output more AI slop, let future AI generations get trained on the sloppy slop and eventually get stuck in an echo chamber of their outdated content. I'd rather spend more face-to-face time with real people at real events, workshops, and customer projects, write less, and focus publishing on my website or maybe write a paid newsletter. I'm sorry for DEV, StackOverflow, and many other free community platforms, but maybe more people will revive their own blogs and websites and find ways to escape the (not) inevitable future of omnipresent AI slop.
Okay, so you're talking about using AI for content creation - I was rather thinking about the impact of AI on developers' work, i.e. writing code - maybe you're right about content creation, but when you say:
"... because "artificial intelligence", in its current, form will be obsoleted by something else ..."
then I highly doubt that that will be the case for coding (writing code) - I expect (fear?) that it's here to stay, and will become ever more pervasive, whether we like it or not ... I'm afraid we won't really have a choice.
P.S. full disclosure - I'm not even using AI for coding myself yet - but if I'd be fresh out of college I'd probably feel "forced" to start learning and using it, or else soon I'd probably be surpassed left and right by people who DO use it ... that's the point I'm afraid - I think we won't really have a choice - adapt or perish ...
I'll just pop in to say that we completely understand the sentiment here and don't ask that you be on board.
I will note that this partnership has nothing to do with training data, or anything of deep integration. We're working with devrel principally for education and support on making use of the tools. I don't think that's necessarily sufficient for the overall concerns here, but I wanted to note them.
Through much consideration we feel that we have to educate and integrate this important new technology. And we'd stand by that as a part of helping as many people in their careers given the evolution β but it is a complicated topic to say the least and we appreciate that this perspective is represented in the comments here.
Thanks for replying and expanding on this Ben, totally understood - and I'm in no way criticizing this "move" by dev.to, on the contrary, I think it could be very useful - it's just that we shouldn't be ramming AI down people's throats ;-) but I'm in no way thinking that you or dev.to are doing that, I believe you're taking a good and sensible approach with this ...
Simple truth is - AI is huge and it's here to stay, whether we like it or not - we cannot (and don't have to be) big fans, every single one of us, but it's too important to ignore, and it shouldn't be ignored - so it's good (necessary, even) to give people the "tools" and the means to educate themselves on the topic ...
'Nuf said - actually I'm pretty excited to see what this partnership (is that the right word?) is going to bring!
For everyone in this reply chain, please don't feel the need to backtrack just to be polite btw. (Politeness is appreciated, of course, but I want to re-emphasize an understanding and appreciation of the original concerns π).
Very much agree.
I would think there are better ways for fighting spam than LLMs, be it more community engagement (good moderation tools and ecosystem, which I do like here and try to use), possibly some ways of verifying a new-posters before publishing (I would be okay with manually checking some posts from new users to mark spam before they are published, and I believe there would be more of us), using some other technology (text analysis can be done without LLMs, and even using local LLMs would be preferable).
I read this as it's mostly about the sponsorship, which I understand is important for keeping this place alive.
I don't want this to sound like a critique of DEV team - I applaud you for your work, I do trust that you are trying to make this place the best possible. I just want to voice my concerns - even associating with this company and their tool seems to me like a risky move, and depending on them for continuous existence is, IMO, very dangerous.
Yes, DEV deserves respect for their great work so far. Good content, unobtrusive ads from relevant partners, promising moderation tools.
Still, too much AI content and topics already, many of which tend towards naive tech enthusiasm. I am skeptical if we can and if we should use AI to fight AI. Why?
A conversation with former Google employee Dr. Joy Buolamwini at SXSW 2024, taking a critical stance on the current state of AI and its often hidden and mostly ignored biases.
I've been watching the growing adoption of Gemini AI in the dev community, and honestly, I can't help but feel like we're slowly selling our soulβtrading independence, transparency, and community-driven innovation for short-term convenience and polished APIs.
Weβve always been the kind of people who value openness, control, and freedom to tinker. But now I see a shift. Gemini (and others like it) come wrapped in slick documentation, IDE integration, and marketing buzzβand slowly, weβre accepting black-box tools in place of systems we understand and can build on.
I get it. Gemini is powerful. Itβs deeply integrated into Googleβs stack, and for many developers, it just works. But letβs not pretend it comes without a cost. The more we rely on centralized, corporate-owned AI models, the more we lose:
And letβs be realβthis isnβt just about technical trade-offs. It's about who controls the future of code. Are we shaping the tools, or are they shaping us?
If we care about a future where developers aren't just users of AI, but co-creators and owners of the stack, we need to keep supporting:
This isnβt a "Google bad" rant. It's a call to stay alert. To keep questioning the direction weβre heading. To choose tools not just for how powerful they are, but for what they represent.
Big AI will always push to own the narrative. Itβs on us to remember what made this community great in the first placeβand not trade it for a handful of API keys.
this is great news! eager to see what comes of these new initiatives
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congrats DEV Team ππ₯³
Great news and excellent partnership! Bring on the new features and the dev challenges!
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Congratulations and glad to be a part of the platform
Software development is changing fast thanks to AI. To help you navigate this shift, DEV Community is partnering with Google AI! Expect practical learning opportunities with Gemini, like challenges and tracks to level up your AI skills. The collaboration also means thoughtful AI integrations within DEV Community, designed to solve common problems: better content discovery, more meaningful connections, and improved spam protection. Discover more about prompt engineering here. Keep an eye out for more!
That's so great, coincidently I happen to use Google API for Postmark Challenge, it was easy, fast and quick to setup.
Nice one
This is awesome news! Excited to see how Gemini enhances the DEV experience and helps the community grow. π
growth like this is always nice to see. kinda makes me wonder - what keeps stuff going long-term? like, beyond just the early hype?
Great News @ben π₯
Congrats
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Thanks for this! I love AI Studio! Folks, if you need a tutorial it's here youtu.be/oQw3MauKik8
I'm happy we're now making the shift
This is going to directly accelerate the activities on this platform moving forward π
great
This will be a fantastic for all of usπ
This is huge
Amazing news! Thank you
Great !
thats crazy
nice
Nice!
Looks interesting!!
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Awesome news
This site is amazing and it deserves an opportunity like collaboration with Google. Congrats!
congrats
GREAT!
Thank you
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pretty cool seeing google jump in on this - always makes me wonder though, you think keeping the vibe right gets harder or easier with big partners in the mix
Looks cool!
Good App!!
Congrats π
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