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Congrats to the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge Winners!

Jess Lee on June 11, 2026

We are so excited to announce the winners of the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge! We asked you to explore the announcements from Google I/O 2026...
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Congrats @vrushali_dev_15, @tahosin, @toboreeee, @vicente_junior_dev, @rinisvs!!! Great work! :D

I am on time @jess lol

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Vrushali

Thank You So much

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Daniel Nwaneri

Congrats to all the winners! 🎉 @jess quick note while you're here: my OpenClaw Challenge prize invoice is now 14 days overdue in the Ramp system. I've completed everything on my end and have been following up for weeks. Could you help nudge the accounting team? Thank you

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Fayaz

Ah, I thought I was alone in this!

@jess: please let us know if there is any issue with the payment system!

DEV has been a lovely community for a very long time.
I'm sure most of us will be totally understanding of reasonable delays if we are kept in the loop.

All the best ❤️

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

@dannwaneri @fm - sorry for the delays here. We recently onboarded with a new accounting firm and are still trying to figure out our workflow with them. It is looking like our payments could take up to Net 45-60 once someone is officially set up in Ramp. We'll be updating the FAQs for this with future winners so expectations are set but you all got caught up in our process where it wasn't clear how quickly payments could be turned around. Thanks for your continued patience.

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Daniel Nwaneri

Thank you for the clarification, Jess.Really appreciate you responding. I'll hang tight. 🙏

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Fayaz

Ah! That's all I needed. A transparent follow up ❤️

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Rini Susan V S

Wow, excited and grateful about the win !! Thank you judges for hosting such a fun challenge, and congrats to all the other winners. Kudos to all writers !!!👍️

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S M Tahosin

Winning was exciting, but reading the other entries was just as valuable. What stood out to me is that the strongest posts didn't just recap announcements, they explored the implications behind them. That made this challenge feel less like a writing contest and more like a collective effort to understand where developer tools are heading next.

Congrats to all the winners and everyone who participated. Also, thanks to the DEV team and the judges for looking beyond popularity metrics and rewarding original thinking and practical analysis. It means a lot.

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Congrats everyone! Great job! 👏

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Fayaz

Congrats to @vrushali_dev_15 + @vicente_junior_dev + @toboreeee + @rinisvs + @tahosin 🏆️🎉

All 5 new winners! Nice! 🥰

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Vrushali

Thank You!

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L. Cordero

Congratulations to all!

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Om Shree

Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Congratulations to all the winners 👏

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Hrishika Malviya

congrats to all winner😇

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Stephen Sebastian

Congrats winners 😊😊

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neither galax

Congrats to all the winners

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Temiloluwa Valentine

Congratulations to all the winners🏆🤭🩷

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Joske Vermeulen

Well done by all of you! Congrats

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xulingfeng

Congratulations👏

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shogun 444

congrats to all the winners!
@vrushali_dev_15, @tahosin, @toboreeee, @vicente_junior_dev, @rinisvs!!

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Vrushali

Thank You

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Aga

Congrats everyone

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Tanay Dwivedi
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Vrushali

Thank You!

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Laurina Ayarah

Thank you so much

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Laurina Ayarah

Thank you to the DEV team and the judges for this. I wrote that piece because the June 18 deadline felt like something developers needed to know before it quietly broke their workflows, so hearing it landed as genuinely useful means a lot. Congrats to all the other winners, the entries were seriously impressive.

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Pascal CESCATO

Congrats to all! Great work!

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anhmtk

What a stellar lineup of winners! Massive congrats to everyone who made the list, and a huge shoutout to everyone who took the time to write and share their knowledge for this challenge.

Google I/O 2026 brought so many game-changing shifts, and this writing challenge felt like the perfect sandbox for builders to dissect those concepts. For me, it was a great opportunity to dive deep into autonomous systems and infrastructure architecture. The discussions sparked in the comments sections over the past few weeks prove how vibrant and forward-thinking this community is.

Thank you DEV and Google for moving the needle forward. Off to read all the winning articles now!

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buildbasekit

Congrats to all the winners! 🎉

Looks like the winning formula wasn't "write about Google I/O."

It was "actually use the thing, break the thing, analyze the thing, and then write about it." 😄

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venelouis

congrats

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Akhter Hossen Badal

Great Work!

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Ali Haroon

Congratulations to all🎉

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tophive

Congrats to all the winners! 🎉

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Tanay Dwivedi

Congrats to all the winner.

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Congrats Everybody 🥳🥳

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YOHANN

Please I want to become a strong Software Engineer

How can I do pls.
I need a Roadmap

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vaibhavi suradkar

Congratulations to all the winners!!👏🏻

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Okeke Chukwudubem

Congratulations 🔥

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Ankiit janggid

Congrats everyone! Great job!

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dev_01

Congrats everyone! Great job! 👏🏿

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Moises Griott

Congrats everyone!!!

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Moises Griott

CongratSSS!!

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lui were

Congrats 👏