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I Replaced Playwright With Raw CDP

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I Replaced Playwright With Raw CDP

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

The Functional Options Pattern for AI Agent Composition

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The Functional Options Pattern for AI Agent Composition

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

Aspect-Oriented Programming for AI Agents: Hookflows as an Event Bus

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Aspect-Oriented Programming for AI Agents: Hookflows as an Event Bus

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

Agent Skills: Microsoft Just Shipped What You've Been Building

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Agent Skills: Microsoft Just Shipped What You've Been Building

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

I Repurposed a Coding Agent as a Life Assistant. Then My Twins Came 10 Weeks Early.

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I Repurposed a Coding Agent as a Life Assistant. Then My Twins Came 10 Weeks Early.

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

VS Code Weekly: Agentic Dev Gets Real with 1.115

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

VS Code Weekly: Agentic Dev Gets Real with 1.115

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

Visual Studio Weekly: Custom Copilot Agents Are Here

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Visual Studio Weekly: Custom Copilot Agents Are Here

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

Copilot CLI Weekly: /fleet Ships — Parallel Multi-Agent Execution

Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Copilot CLI Weekly: /fleet Ships — Parallel Multi-Agent Execution

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.