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The Future of Software Has a Lot More Builders. They’re Going to Need a Home.

Jon Gottfried on February 18, 2026

I have some big news to share today: Major League Hacking has acquired DEV (dev.to), the developer community platform where millions of developers ...
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Mykola Kondratiuk

honestly the where does this live question is real. vibe coded a few apps this year and each launch felt weirdly orphaned - too technical for product forums, too product-y for dev communities. HN eats you alive if you show up without traction. Reddit is hit or miss. still looking for where builders who are neither founders nor OSS contributors actually land

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Jon Gottfried Major League Hacking (MLH)

Hopefully DEV can be that place for you

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Mykola Kondratiuk

yeah honestly it's already clicking more than I expected - people here actually engage with the building process, not just the polished result. which is exactly what vibe-coded stuff needs tbh

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Jon Gottfried Major League Hacking (MLH)

Love that. Honestly, if there's anything you'd like to see that could improve that experience - let us know :)

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Mykola Kondratiuk

Will do. The 'here's what actually happened' energy here is what keeps me coming back - beats the polished stuff elsewhere honestly.

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Swift Major League Hacking (MLH)

I couldn't be more excited to welcome the DEV team & community to the MLH family! Today is the greatest day in history to become a software creator. No matter who or where you are, everyone needs a place to learn, build, & share – DEV & MLH are the home that developers needed.

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Chimaobi Prince

I am excited because there is hope and a brighter future for aspiring builders like me.

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Ben Halpern
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Amara Graham

Very interested to see how this goes! Big fan of learning and sharing so it feels like a very natural fit to have DEV and MLH together. Good luck with this next chapter!

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Jon Gottfried Major League Hacking (MLH)

Thanks!

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Ryan Swift Major League Hacking (MLH)

So excited about this. Can't wait to see what MLH and DEV accomplish together

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Saikat Mondal

Excited

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Mike Elsmore

I love that the announcement post is a blog on dev.to about acquiring dev.to 😁

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Jon Gottfried Major League Hacking (MLH)

very meta, eh?

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Austin Welsh

Exciting step! Glad to see the community continue to grow from all angles.

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Bhavin Sheth

I started posting on DEV just last month while building my tools website, and the biggest value wasn’t traffic — it was perspective. Reading real experiences from other builders helped me fix mistakes faster than any tutorial.

If MLH can connect more builders with that same learning-in-public culture, it can help a lot of solo devs who are figuring things out alone.

Curious to see how hackathons + DEV posts connect — that build → share → improve loop is where real growth happens.

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Matthew Hou

The compounding uncertainty in agent systems is the hard part that most tutorials skip. Each step's output becomes the next step's input, and without explicit checkpointing, a subtle failure at step 3 can produce output at step 7 that looks plausible but is wrong. The failure modes are harder to trace than in traditional software.

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Jon Gottfried Major League Hacking (MLH)

100% - especially when you forego human code review and start to lose understanding of what your codebase actually does

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Sanjay Kumar Sah

I am excited to do labs on MLH and share the insight in DEV.

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