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Everything You Need to Know About Harness Engineering
AI agents can now write code, browse the web, and run for hours without a human watching. Ask one to build a feature, and it might open ten files, call five tools, and make a hundred small decisions before it ever shows you a result. That's a different animal [...]
Should Philippines Make Its Own Local Large Language Model?
As countries all around the world are beginning to seriously invest in their own models, there is a growing debate on whether the country should create its own local large language model. If we do, would it be cost-effective? And if it is, would it be beneficial? As [...]
How to Balance Business Goals with User Needs in UI/UX: A Data-Driven Approach
The Tug-of-War Balancing business goals with user needs in UI/UX is a challenge every designer eventually runs into. Users want fast, free, and beautiful experiences with no friction anywhere. The business, meanwhile, wants high conversion rates, low hosting costs, and a fast time-to-market. These two wish lists are not always [...]
UI/UX Design: Speeding Up the Creative Process with AI
The Builder's Mindset If you have ever stared at a blank Figma canvas with a deadline looming — a thesis defense, a hackathon demo, or just a personal app idea you finally want to ship — you already know that speed matters as much as polish. A traditional UI/UX [...]
Agentjacking: How Fake Sentry Errors Hijack AI Coding Agents
AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex now do far more than autocomplete. They read source code, query observability platforms, open pull requests, and run terminal commands on developer machines. That expanded access is useful, but it also creates a problem most security teams have not accounted [...]
Build AI Apps Faster with Google AI Studio and Gemini
Artificial intelligence has become an essential part of modern software development. It helps developers build applications that understand natural language, generate content, analyze documents, write code, and automate complex tasks. While large language models (LLMs) make these features easier to use, integrating them into real applications still takes time. [...]
OpenRouter Explained: Access Multiple AI Models Through One API
The rapid advancement of generative AI has given developers access to an ever-growing collection of large language models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, and xAI. Each model offers different strengths, whether in reasoning, code generation, content creation, multilingual support, or cost efficiency. While having [...]
Build Your Own JARVIS AI Chatbot Interface using Vercel
Have you ever watched Tony Stark boot up his suits and wished you had your very own J.A.R.V.I.S. to help you code, research, or just manage your day? If you are just starting out with web development, you have probably noticed that most AI chatbot tutorials look exactly the [...]
Can’t Use the Terminal, Can’t Defend the Network: The Importance of Cybersecurity Degrees in the Philippines
Can't Use the Terminal, Can't Defend the Network: The Importance of Cybersecurity Degrees in the Philippines Open a job posting for a Security Operations Center (SOC) analyst, a penetration tester, or a systems administrator anywhere in the world, and one requirement shows up again and again: comfort with the [...]
PromptWars hackathon: students built AI apps
On June 20, 2026, thirty junior and senior high school students spent a day at Programmable Makati building working AI applications. The event was PromptWars: AI-Powered, Student-Built, a hackathon run by DEVCON Kids Philippines and Tutorials Dojo. This event demonstrated how beginners can build with high impact solutions [...]

PromptWars hackathon: students built AI apps

On June 20, 2026, thirty junior and senior high school students spent a day at Programmable Makati building working AI applications. The event was PromptWars: AI-Powered, Student-Built, a hackathon run by DEVCON Kids Philippines and Tutorials Dojo. This event demonstrated how beginners can build with high impact solutions through the use of AI. Welcome messages: AI as more than a tool Hosts Ace Batacandulo and Franchesca Asignacion of Tutorials Dojo opened the day [...]

Expo & React Native: Understanding the Tools Behind Your First Mobile App (2026)

Have you ever had an app idea that you wanted to build? Maybe you searched, “What’s the first step to creating a mobile app?” only to end up asking, “Why do I need all these tools before I can even build a simple app?” Many beginners expect mobile development to start with designing screens and writing code. Instead, they often find tutorials introducing several unfamiliar tools and frameworks, along with instructions on how to install [...]

How to Book the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) Exam

The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) is Anthropic's foundational certification for professionals who design and build production systems with Claude. One thing is worth understanding before you register: the exam is scenario-based, not concept-based. Rather than asking you to define terms or recall facts in isolation, each question presents a realistic production situation, such as an agent loop, a tool schema, or a multi-agent workflow, and asks you to identify the correct architectural [...]

Get AWS AIF-C01 and CLF-C02 with 50% OFF: Build Your Future with Two AWS Certifications!

Artificial intelligence and cloud computing are changing the way we work. From writing emails with AI assistants to running business applications in the cloud, these technologies have become part of our everyday lives. You no longer need to be a software engineer to benefit from understanding how they work. Whether you're a student, a working professional, or someone planning to switch careers, having a basic understanding of AI and cloud computing can give you [...]

The Best Local Development Setups for Web and Mobile Apps

Local development setups can affect how fast you build, test, and ship web and mobile apps. This guide is for students, developers, and everyone that wants to compare three practical cross-platform options. You will see how Next.js with Expo, Flutter with Android Studio, and Next.js with Capacitor perform in setup time, developer experience, storage use, and mobile RAM usage. Test app and scoring method To keep the comparison fair, I used the same simple [...]

My First Exposure to Machine Learning with PyTorch

If you have ever opened a machine learning tutorial and felt like you were reading a math and statistics textbook, you are not alone. I spent months telling myself I would “get into AI eventually”, until I finally arrived at my breakthrough. This is not a textbook breakdown of deep learning theory, but rather a practical journey. This is the honest account of a computer science student learning Machine Learning with PyTorch for the [...]

Building AI Browser Agents with Browser Use and Playwright

Artificial intelligence is changing how developers interact with the web. Traditional browser automation was originally designed around predefined scripts, rigid workflows, and predictable user actions. Developers manually wrote automation logic that followed exact selectors, buttons, and navigation sequences. While effective, these systems often broke whenever websites changed their layouts or introduced dynamic interfaces. Today, AI browser agents are making browser automation far more adaptive and intelligent. Modern frameworks such as Browser Use, Playwright, LangChain, [...]

The New Software Stack: AI + GitHub + Cloud

Software development looks very different today than it did five years ago. Developers are no longer working with isolated tools and manual deployment pipelines. Instead, the modern software stack has grown into a connected ecosystem where artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, automated DevOps workflows, and collaborative development platforms all work together. This matters whether you are an IT professional keeping pace with industry changes or a career-changer figuring out where to focus your learning. The [...]

AI Coding Assistants Are Changing Junior Developer Learning Habits

Human AI workflows are rapidly transforming modern software development. From generating boilerplate code to debugging cloud infrastructure configurations, AI coding assistants are becoming part of the everyday toolkit of developers around the world. For junior developers, this shift is significantly changing how programming is learned. A few years ago, beginner developers spent countless hours searching through Stack Overflow threads, reading documentation line by line, and manually debugging syntax errors. Today, many of those learning [...]

Connecting the Pieces: How AWS Services Form Cloud Architectures

One of the biggest surprises I encountered while learning AWS was realizing that understanding individual services and understanding cloud architecture are not the same thing. Like many beginners, I started by learning services one at a time. EC2 was a virtual server. S3 was object storage. RDS was a managed database. Load Balancers distributed traffic. Each service had its own purpose, features, and use cases. At first, this approach made sense. Understanding individual services [...]