📰 Dev.to · Hector Flores

My agent chose raw CDP over Playwright for 11 viewports. Then it invented a visual validation pattern I hadn't seen: mosaic compaction.

The Go functional options pattern is a clean way to compose tools, guardrails, memory, and middleware into production-ready AI agents.

One tool call, multiple outcomes, zero extra tokens. How enforcement-triggered side effects bring AOP to autonomous AI agents.

Stop building Backstage clones. GitHub IS the platform. Here's how to build an Internal Developer Platform using Copilot extensions, IssueOps, hookflows, and go

Usage-based billing means long agentic sessions now cost real money. Harness engineering — hooks, delegated agents, and model routing — is how you control it.

DevOps gave humans CI/CD, IaC, and observability to govern software delivery. AI harnesses give agents the same — and they matter more than model choice.

Visual Studio just productized the skills pattern. Here's how I've been running 71 skills across 50 agents since before Microsoft shipped it.

Most GitHub orgs manage permissions through the UI. That's a security incident waiting to happen. Here's why IAM-as-Code is the fix.

MCP-powered secret and dependency scanning ships GA, enterprise migrations get zero-downtime tooling, and VS Code Copilot learns to remember your work.

GitHub paused Copilot signups as agentic workflows strain infrastructure, while security tools gained OIDC, issue tracking, and smarter secret detection.

When my premature twins hit the NICU, a repurposed coding agent kept my family running. Here are the six patterns that held.

Two weekly releases packed with agent UX fixes, terminal upgrades, and the #codebase overhaul that finally makes semantic search consistent.

Visual Studio's March update brings custom agents, live profiling, and smart debugging. AI extensibility finally meets enterprise workflows.

GitHub unleashed its Copilot SDK in five languages and liberated cloud agent from PR-only workflows. Plus Actions got smarter and Issues search went GA.

Version 1.113 brings configurable reasoning, nested subagents, and a fresh look as Microsoft settles into weekly releases.

GitHub just shipped /fleet for Copilot CLI, enabling parallel multi-agent workflows. Plus 4 releases, built-in skills, and Copilot cloud agent goes beyond PRs.

Azure DevCLI ships local AI debugging, Savings Plan for Databases cuts costs up to 35%, and Aspire hits GA on App Service. Here's what matters.

GitHub ships major security roadmap for Actions, agent sessions in Issues, and Copilot PR edits — plus a controversial data usage update.

We shipped a Telegram bridge to GitHub Copilot CLI in one file. Then we kept going. Here's what the project became: a cron scheduler extension, fully automated

I built a Telegram bridge to GitHub Copilot CLI in one file. ~420 lines. No gateway, no daemon, no framework. Here's how the extension SDK makes full agent fram