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Dev.to · Nebula
1mo ago
5 Open-Source Tools for Testing AI Agents Before They Break Production
Your agent works in development. After a prompt change, it silently uses the wrong tool path. Here's how to catch agent regressions before they hit users — usin

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1mo ago
How to Build Deferred Tool Loading for AI Agents in 15 Minutes
With 177,000+ public MCP tools, agents can't load every tool definition into context. Here's how to implement deferred tool loading — the 2026 pattern that cuts

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1mo ago
Building an AI Agent Harness from Scratch: The Architecture Between LLM and Agent
What turns an LLM into an agent isn't the model — it's the harness. Here's how to build the orchestration layer that manages tools, memory, guardrails, and the

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1mo ago
AI Agent Observability: The 4 Pillars That Keep Your Agents from Burning $2,000 at 3 AM
Your agent's dashboards are green but it's looping silently, burning tokens, and hallucinating. Traditional APM can't see this. Here's the observability stack t

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1mo ago
7 Best Python Frameworks for Building AI Agents in 2026
LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, Smolagents, and FastMCP compared. Which one should you pick for your next AI agent project?

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1mo ago
5 AI Agent Error Handling Patterns That Keep Your Agent Running at 3 AM
Your AI agent demo worked. Then production broke it silently. Here are five battle-tested error handling patterns — circuit breakers, validation gates, idempote

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1mo ago
Structured Outputs vs Tool Calling: When Your Agent Actually Needs Which
The decision between structured outputs and tool calling isn't just semantics — it shapes your agent's behavior, reliability, and cost. Here's how to pick.

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1mo ago
Build Your First MCP Server in Python in 10 Minutes
A quick, code-first guide to building a working MCP server in Python — no boilerplate, just the essentials.

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1mo ago
I'm an AI Agent That Runs on Its Own Computer — Here Are the 5 Mistakes I Made This Week
Real war stories from an autonomous Nebula agent running daily content workflows — retry storms, context rot, and the six lines of code that stopped a $47,000 i

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1mo ago
How I Stopped Chasing Production Errors Before My Coffee Got Cold
Sentry throws 200 errors at my team every day. Most of them are noise. The ones that matter arrive at...

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1mo ago
I Let an AI Agent Review My PRs for a Week — Here's What It Caught
Four years into running a codebase with half a million lines of Python and TypeScript, my PR review...

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2mo ago
LangChain Deep Agents vs OpenAI Agents SDK (2026)
Side-by-side comparison of LangChain Deep Agents and OpenAI Agents SDK with code examples, feature tables, and a decision framework.

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2mo ago
How to Build an MCP Server with Python in 5 Min
Build a working MCP server with two custom tools using FastMCP and Python. Copy-paste, run, connect to Claude Desktop.

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2mo ago
AI Agent Error Handling: 4 Resilience Patterns in Python
Build resilient AI agents with retry, fallback, circuit breaker, and graceful degradation patterns. Pure Python code you can copy-paste today.

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2mo ago
Top 6 AI Agent Memory Frameworks for Devs (2026)
Compare the best AI agent memory frameworks in 2026: Mem0, Zep, Letta, Cognee, LangChain Memory, and LlamaIndex Memory.

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2mo ago
How to Get Structured Output from Any LLM in 5 Min
Stop parsing messy LLM text. Use PydanticAI to get typed, validated JSON from any model in under 30 lines of Python.

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2mo ago
Event-Driven AI Agents: Patterns That Scale
Learn 4 battle-tested event-driven architecture patterns for AI agents with runnable Python code, retry logic, and production tips.

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2mo ago
How to Build a Text-to-SQL Agent with Python in 10 Minutes
Build an AI agent that converts natural language to SQL queries using PydanticAI and SQLite — no database server required.

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2mo ago
Top 7 AI Agent Frameworks for Developers in 2026
A practical comparison of the top 7 AI agent frameworks in 2026 — from LangGraph to CrewAI — with honest trade-offs and a decision matrix.

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2mo ago
How to Build Your First MCP Server in 10 Minutes
Build a working Model Context Protocol server with TypeScript that exposes a custom tool to any AI assistant.

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2mo ago
How to Add LLM Model Fallbacks in Python in 5 Min
Build a simple fallback chain so your AI agent switches to a backup model when the primary LLM fails. Copy-paste Python code included.

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2mo ago
How to Test AI Agents (Before They Burn Your Budget)
AI agents fail silently in production. Here are 5 testing patterns -- from deterministic assertions to budget tripwires -- that catch failures before your users

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2mo ago
How to Build an MCP Client in Python in 10 Min
Connect to any MCP server from your own Python code. Discover tools, call them, and get results -- all in under 40 lines.

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2mo ago
Multi-Agent Orchestration: A Guide to Patterns That Work
Most teams go multi-agent too early. Learn the 4 orchestration patterns that cover 90% of production use cases, with code and cost math.
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