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Big news...and an important milestone for us. After a year of building, experimenting, breaking things, and learning fast, Web3Compass is now part of Germina Labs (@GerminaLabs). None of this would have been possible without the community. From 30 Days of Solidity to 10 Days of Base to Build with Stylus... The energy, curiosity, and commitment you brought to every cohort made this journey real. We’ve seen some of you push your limits...late-night calls, consistent streaks, showing up even when it got hard. That kind of builder grit is exactly what Web3Compass stands for. As a two-person team, scaling that momentum sustainably was hard. So we made a deliberate choice - one that’s best for the community, the mission, and what comes next. Germina brings the strategic depth, operational clarity, and long-term thinking that lets us scale without losing our soul. We remain builder-first, community-driven, and deeply technical, NOW with the right guidance to go bigger. The mission stays the same. The ambition just got sharper. 2026 is about building things that last.
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New week, building @the_devcompass Shipping a few features this week. Expect quick byte sized courses on @pidotdev @crewAIInc Hermes agent by @NousResearch The goal is to get a hang of the topics before you invest in building on them just out of FOMO.
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Someone reached out to us on Telegram after discovering our Claude Architect Playlist on Youtube. Ended up buying the course😍 Messages like this keep us motivated. Check out the FREE Playlist: piped.video/playlist?list=PL…
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Congratulations to you @huggingface You've been our go-to place for learning, testing, and experimenting. And a huge part of our AI journey, and we can’t wait to see what you build next. 💛 Now go make NVIDIA hug the models too. 😂🤗
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Some trends are fun to follow northeastmusic.live A quick hands-on course on this project ? yay or nah ?
I don't do trends but wanted to take a break over the weekend, building something fun so here I am giving in to this trend. A tribute to the northeast music - seven-sisters-fm.pages.dev/ Live soon on northeastmusic.live/
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#1 on Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering Go read the article: devcompass.ai/blog/loop-engi… Stay tuned for Part 2
We rank 1st on Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering - an article that was posted 3 days ago.
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We are now a Youtube Partner 🥳🥳 Stay tuned for deeper AI engineering content, hands-on tutorials, certifications, interviews with builders, and practical guides that help you stay ahead in one of the fastest-moving industries. Thank you for being part of this journey♥️
One year ago, we started as Web3Compass with a simple goal: make learning emerging technologies practical and accessible for developers. Today, we've evolved into DevCompass, expanding beyond Web3 into AI, agents, and the future of software engineering. Along the way, 1,700+ of you chose to subscribe, learn, and build with us. Every view, comment, question, and piece of feedback has helped shape what DevCompass is becoming. We're also excited to share that we've officially become a YouTube Partner 🎉 This milestone isn't just ours, it's the community's. Thank you for believing in a small team that has spent the last year obsessing over creating content that actually helps developers. We're just getting started. Over the coming months, you can expect deeper AI engineering content, hands-on tutorials, certifications, interviews with builders, and practical guides that help you stay ahead in one of the fastest-moving industries. We'd love to hear from you: What would you like to see more of on DevCompass? Thank you for being part of this journey. Here's to the next chapter. ❤️ Check us out on Youtube: piped.video/@thedevcompass?s…
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Time for another certification, read the full blog here: devcompass.ai/blog/claude-ce…
Anthropic just turned "Claude experience" into something you can actually get certified in. 4 new proctored exams. Most people prepping for these are studying the wrong things. Here's why:- The 4 tracks: • Associate – Foundations ($99): consulting/non-technical roles • Developer – Foundations ($125): engineers building on the API • Architect – Foundations ($125): the original technical certificate • Architect – Professional ($175): senior/lifecycle-owner track The part nobody's talking about: these exams are NOT evenly weighted. On Associate Foundations, prompting itself is only 14% of the exam. Evaluation and judgment catching a hallucinated output, knowing when to escalate carries more weight than writing the prompt at all. Developer Foundations is even more lopsided: one single domain (Applications & Integration) is a full 1/3 of the entire exam. If you're studying every topic equally, you're studying wrong. Also: exam delivery moved to Pearson on June 30, badges moved to Credly, and if you had the old Architect Foundations certificate, there's a specific migration path you need to know about.
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We are slowly growing - 50k views in the last year Someone who had no experience creating videos, and that too long form content. No editors, No writers, just 2 people doing it all. Thank you to each one of you for believing in us🥳
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It was a privilege partnering with @ketherlabs such a talented community🥳 Thankyou @karenkether this wouldn't be possible with you 😍 Do we smell Cohort2 collaboration?
🎓 Cohort 1 completado. Y qué viaje tan especial fue este. Fue un honor para @ketherlabs haber sido partners oficiales del Claude Certified Architect Prep Course de @the_devcompass — y ver de cerca lo que puede lograr una comunidad cuando se une con un propósito claro. 275 builders seleccionados de más de 45 países. Y entre ellos, muchos de nuestra comunidad latina de KETHERLABS que hicieron su esfuerzo y terminaron satisfactoriamente todo el programa, a todos los builders, MUCHAS GRACIAS! En 70 lecciones recorrieron todo el camino: desde entender qué es un LLM hasta construir sistemas multi-agente reales, trabajar con herramientas, pipelines en producción, Claude Code y mucho más. No fue un curso teórico — fue formación práctica, profunda y exigente. Hoy, muchos de ellos ya cuentan con su certificado y están listos para presentar la certificación oficial de Claude Certified Architect. Eso no es poco. Eso es transformador. A toda la comunidad LATAM que se sumó: gracias por confiar, por estudiar, por no rendirse. Esto es exactamente lo que queremos seguir construyendo juntos. Y a DevCompass: gracias por crear este espacio y por dejarnos ser parte de él. No es el final — es solo el comienzo. Hay mucho más por venir, así que estén atentos. 🚀
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What a journey. ❤️ Over the past 6 weeks, Cohort 1 of the DevCompass Claude Certified Architect Prep Course brought together builders from 45+ countries to learn, build, and grow together. 902 registrations. 275 selected builders. 40+ hours of learning. 70+ lessons. Countless "aha!" moments. A huge thank you to everyone who trusted us to be part of your AI journey. Seeing this community come together has been incredible. This is just the beginning. 🚀
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Excited to complete the Claude Certified Architect Prep Cohort! 🎉 Learned how to design reliable AI systems, AI agents, and production-ready workflows through 70 lessons and 5 stages. Looking forward to building more! 🚀 @AnthropicAI @the_devcompass #AI #Claude #AIAgents #Python
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Even a perfectly designed extraction pipeline will fail sometimes. A field is missing. An enum value doesn't match. Claude missed information that was clearly present in the input. The question isn't "how do you prevent every failure?" It's "what should your system do when a failure happens?" We’ve been building a full playlist around production AI systems and CCA-F prep: piped.video/playlist?list=PL… And in this video, we break down: • when to retry vs when to escalate • why generic retries usually fail again • how specific feedback helps Claude correct mistakes • how to design retry loops safely • and why every system needs an exit condition A reliable AI system isn't one that never fails. It's one that knows how to handle failure correctly. 🎥 piped.video/zaDhWZ0sFtg
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"Output your answer as JSON." It works... until it doesn't. Claude adds a helpful sentence before the JSON. Wraps it in markdown. Or quietly leaves out a field your system was depending on. For a one-off script, that's annoying. For a production extraction pipeline processing thousands of requests, that's a failure. We’ve been building a full playlist around production AI systems: piped.video/playlist?list=PL… And in this video, we break down: • why prompt-based JSON is unreliable • how `tool_use` gives you schema-level guarantees • why "null is an answer, omitted is a bug" • how to design better extraction schemas • and how validation feedback creates more reliable outputs If your AI output is going directly into a system, hoping the JSON is formatted correctly isn't a strategy. 🎥 piped.video/5CAn2rEQGE8
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Hey DevCompass community ❤️ Due to the temporary Telegram restriction in India until 22nd June, our team won’t be able to access our Telegram community for the next few days. We don’t want to miss out on conversations with you, so if you need any help, have questions, or just want to reach out, please connect with us through our other channels: • Twitter/X DMs • LinkedIn • Email: write to us at thedevcompass@gmail.com or contact@devcompass.ai We’ll be back in the Telegram community as soon as we’re able to. Thanks for being a part of the DevCompass journey and for your patience ❤️
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Sometimes the problem isn't that your prompt is unclear. Sometimes the problem is that the behavior you want is hard to explain. You can write three paragraphs of instructions, or you can just show Claude a single example of what a good answer looks like. That's few-shot prompting. We’ve been building a full playlist around production AI systems: piped.video/playlist?list=PL… And in this video, we break down: • when examples work better than instructions • how to write effective few-shot examples • why easy examples don't actually teach Claude anything • how examples create an output contract • and how a single targeted example can make results much more reliable Not every AI problem needs a more complicated prompt. Sometimes the fastest way to explain what you want is to show it. 🎥 piped.video/iP6Z2q61H0M
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A lot of bad AI behavior comes from a surprisingly simple problem: The instructions aren't actually instructions. "Be careful." "Use good judgment." "Be conservative." Those sound reasonable to a human. To Claude, they're vague ideas that can be interpreted differently every time. We’ve been building a full playlist around production AI systems: piped.video/playlist?list=PL… And in this video, we break down: • why vague prompts create inconsistent behavior • how to turn subjective instructions into clear rules • the four-step rewrite pattern for reliable prompts • the simple test for spotting ambiguity • and how small wording changes can make production agents much more predictable A good prompt isn't just clear enough for a human to understand. It's specific enough that Claude has only one reasonable way to follow it. 🎥 piped.video/UBAveSOU1ns
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50k+ people have seen our content organically. Time to get more eyeballs and definitely more subscribers. If you haven't yet discovered us check it out: piped.video/@thedevcompass A bunch of AI and Web3 related content.
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