I built a free AI code review extension for VS Code (solo project)

<h1> Code Review Validator: Automate Feedback, Improve Code Quality </h1> <p>I built a tool to help developers give better code reviews — faster.</p> <p>It’s called <a

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it

<p>As a solo developer, the biggest bottleneck isn't usually the ideas—it's the time required to execution. Recently, I wanted to launch a suite of free web tools for developers

<p>Hey everyone 👋</p> <p>Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been building a side project called <a href="//opsrift.com">Opsrift</a>.</p> <p>It started from a pretty simple

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2>

<p>If you’ve worked with Git long enough, you’ve probably had <em>that</em> moment.</p> <p>You pull the latest changes, try to merge, and suddenly your editor is full of conflict

<h2> What is AI code review? </h2> <p><strong>AI code review is the automated analysis of code changes using artificial intelligence to find bugs, security vulnerabilities,