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A Weekly Map of

AI Dev Tools

7 fresh AI dev tools in your inbox every Thursday to boost your workflow or help you ship AI-enabled apps

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Tools from last week:

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Terraform MCP Server - MCP server that lets agents generate and validate Terraform using live Terraform Registry schemas
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Daytona - Secure, isolated sandboxes and APIs to execute AI-generated code at scale (sub-100ms startup) so you can run agent tasks safely
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Vision Agents - Open-source framework to build real-time video AI agents with WebRTC, VAD/diarization, and pluggable processors
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A2UI - Open specification/toolkit for agents to return declarative UI components your app can render safely
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Instructor - Python library that forces LLMs to return Pydantic-validated objects, handling retries and function/tool calls automatically
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Gradio - Front-end toolkit to build shareable web UIs and demos for models in minutes using simple Python functions
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Piper - Lightweight, fast TTS engine that runs high-quality neural voices locally for offline voice features