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5 AI Dev Tools That Save You Time (Using Dev Brains AI)

As a developer, your day is full of context switches: writing SQL, debugging JSON, validating input, chasing error messages, and documenting APIs. None of these tasks are “hard”, but they are repetitive and time-consuming. That’s exactly where Dev Brains AI comes in — a set of small, focused tools that remove friction from your daily workflow.

In this post, we’ll walk through five free tools available on Dev Brains AI and how you can combine them to save time, reduce mistakes, and stay in flow while coding.

1. AI Regex Generator — stop guessing at patterns

Regular expressions are powerful, but they’re also easy to get wrong. The AI Regex Generator lets you describe the pattern you want in plain English — for example:

  • “match a 10-digit Indian mobile number starting with 9, 8 or 7”
  • “validate an email address but exclude gmail.com”
  • “extract URLs from a block of text”

The tool generates a regex and a short explanation, so you can quickly verify that it matches only what you expect. This is ideal for form validation, log parsing, and quick scripts where you don’t want to spend 20 minutes tweaking a pattern.

2. AI SQL Generator — turn questions into queries

The AI SQL Generator helps you go from natural language to SQL in one step. You can write prompts like:

  • “get total revenue by month for 2024”
  • “list active users in India, sorted by signup date”
  • “show top 10 products by total sales amount”

The tool returns a query with SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses, which you can adapt to your own schema. It’s especially useful when collaborating with non-technical stakeholders who think in questions, not SQL syntax.

3. JSON Formatter & Validator — clean up messy payloads

When you’re working with APIs and logs, you constantly copy-paste JSON to see what’s going on. The JSON Formatter & Validator lets you:

  • Pretty-print compact JSON so it’s readable.
  • Validate JSON and get quick syntax errors.
  • Minify JSON for storage or network transfer.

Everything runs in your browser, so you can safely paste responses from APIs, logs from production, or configuration files without sending them to a remote server.

4. AI Error Message Explainer — understand errors faster

Cryptic error messages can break your flow, especially when they come with long stack traces. The AI Error Message Explainer takes an error string like:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')

…and turns it into a human-readable explanation plus a list of debugging steps. It’s not a replacement for logs or docs, but it gives you a quick “first pass” understanding so you know where to look next.

5. AI JSON Schema Generator — document and validate your APIs

Writing JSON Schema by hand can be tedious. With the AI JSON Schema Generator, you paste a sample JSON payload and get a draft-style schema that includes:

  • Top-level type (object, array, etc.).
  • Properties and their inferred types.
  • Required fields based on your example.
  • Item schemas for arrays.

This is perfect for bootstrapping validation rules, documenting contracts between frontend and backend, or integrating with tools like AJV and OpenAPI.

How to combine these tools in your workflow

Here’s a simple example of how these tools can work together in a real project:

  1. Use the JSON Formatter to inspect an API response.
  2. Generate a schema for that response with the JSON Schema Generator.
  3. Write a quick analytics query using the AI SQL Generator.
  4. Add input validation with a pattern from the AI Regex Generator.
  5. If something breaks, paste the stack trace into the Error Message Explainer to get oriented.

The goal isn’t to replace your skills — it’s to remove repetitive boilerplate so you can focus on architecture, business logic, and good user experiences.

What’s next for Dev Brains AI?

Dev Brains AI will keep evolving with more small, practical tools: code helpers, API testers, and content generators that fit naturally into your existing workflow. If you have ideas or feature requests, you can always reach out via the Contact page.

In the meantime, bookmark the homepage or the blog and start using these five tools in your next coding session — your future self will thank you.