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Explain the ReAct pattern
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Implement function calling with structured schemas
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Build supervisor/worker agent architectures
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Before you connect AI to PostgreSQL through MCP, run this checklist
Dev.to · Mads Hansen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Before you connect AI to PostgreSQL through MCP, run this checklist
A PostgreSQL MCP server can make database access feel almost magical. Ask a question in Claude,...
Schema context is the missing layer for AI database agents
Dev.to · Mads Hansen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Schema context is the missing layer for AI database agents
Connecting an AI agent to a database is the easy part. Getting useful answers is harder. The model...
AI for Frontend Developers — Day 50
Medium · LLM 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
AI for Frontend Developers — Day 50
What Are AI Agents? (The Shift from AI Chat to AI Action) Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Why We Built Dhara — An Open Protocol Standard for AI Agents, Not Another Product
Coding agents today are products , not platforms. Every single one ships as a bloated, all-in-one package that forces you into its way of working. Claude Code w
The Missing Axiom for Stateless Agents
Dev.to · ajaxStardust 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Missing Axiom for Stateless Agents
Jeffrey Sabarese (@ajaxstardust) Part V of the contract-style-comments Series Abstract: Classical...
AI Chat Memory Pitfalls: 30% of Conversations Lost on Refresh
Dev.to · BAOFUFAN 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
AI Chat Memory Pitfalls: 30% of Conversations Lost on Refresh
It was 1 a.m. when the product manager dropped a screenshot in the group chat: “A user chatted for 20...
Agentic Stewardship: Formal Spec Governance
Dev.to · ajaxStardust 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Agentic Stewardship: Formal Spec Governance
Abstract: The transition to agentic software production necessitates a shift from passive...
Proving Your AI Agent Made Its Own Decisions
Dev.to · Alex @ Vibe Agent Making 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Proving Your AI Agent Made Its Own Decisions
Nobody can prove whether an AI agent decided autonomously or was puppeted. The Cryptographic Proof of Autonomy Protocol combines five existing primitives into o
Teaching an AI Agent to Talk to a Light Bulb (and Why I Had to Get Up From My Desk)
Dev.to · Paul DeCarlo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Teaching an AI Agent to Talk to a Light Bulb (and Why I Had to Get Up From My Desk)
Teaching an AI Agent to Talk to a Light Bulb (and Why I Had to Get Up From My Desk) I...
Agent Communication Security: Best Practices for AI Developers
Dev.to · Artemii Amelin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Agent Communication Security: Best Practices for AI Developers
TL;DR: Securing agent-to-agent communication in decentralized AI systems is crucial due to active...
CSC: An Interface for the Agentic Epoch
Dev.to · ajaxStardust 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
CSC: An Interface for the Agentic Epoch
Jeffrey Sabarese (@ajaxstardust) Published in coordination with Large Language Model contributors...
Why We Built Dhara — An Open Protocol Standard for AI Agents, Not Another Product
Dev.to · Arjun Nayak 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Why We Built Dhara — An Open Protocol Standard for AI Agents, Not Another Product
Every coding agent harness is a product that locks you into its way of working. We built Dhara — an open protocol standard that any agent, in any language, can
Daring Fireball 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
[Sponsor] Drata
Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 
What Are AI Agents? A Plain-English Guide for US Business Owners in 2026
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What Are AI Agents? A Plain-English Guide for US Business Owners in 2026
If you’ve been hearing about AI agents everywhere but still aren’t sure what they actually do — you’re not alone. Most business owners we… Continue reading on M
I Built SuperML.dev to Document Production-Grade AI Architecture — Here’s What I Learned
Dev.to · Bhanu Pratap Singh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Built SuperML.dev to Document Production-Grade AI Architecture — Here’s What I Learned
Most AI content online is either too shallow or too model-focused. You see endless posts...
PID Control : Why Robots / Self-driving Car Don’t Zigzag
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
PID Control : Why Robots / Self-driving Car Don’t Zigzag
Imagine you’re trying to guide a self-driving car along a predefined path. The goal? Stay as close to that path as possible. But what… Continue reading on Mediu
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Contractor phone service vs contractor phone answering service: the intake layer field crews actually need
Disclosure up front: I am Abe, founder of OnCrew, which builds an AI phone answering layer for contractors. I have a bias. This post is the system design I wish
The Agent Space Is About to Have Its TCP/IP Moment. Here Is What That Means for Builders.
Dev.to · Artemii Amelin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Agent Space Is About to Have Its TCP/IP Moment. Here Is What That Means for Builders.
In the early 1980s, every computer network was its own island. ARPANET had its own protocols. BITNET...
Medium · DevOps 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Stop Guessing What Your n8n AI Agents Do: A Langfuse Trace Stack
A 30-minute self-hosted stack that turns every n8n workflow run into a structured trace — model, tokens, tool calls, retries. Continue reading on Medium »
AWS Kiro: The Agentic IDE That Makes Specs the Unit of Work
Dev.to · Jubin Soni 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
AWS Kiro: The Agentic IDE That Makes Specs the Unit of Work
The agentic IDE space has gotten crowded fast. Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf — they all...
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Slot Machine Trap: Dealing with Cognitive Debt in the Age of AI Agents
Let’s be real for a second: shipping code has never felt better. Continue reading on Medium »
AWS Machine Learning 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building web search-enabled agents with Strands and Exa
In this post, you will learn how to set up the Exa integration in Strands Agents, understand the two core tools it exposes, and walk through real-world use case
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
A Billion Token Lesson: Because You Can You Should
A Billion Token Lesson: Because You Can ≠ You Should Agent Autopsy, Day 6 Last week I spent a weekend building a product nobody asked for. I didn't catch it in
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What Agent-Native Means for Your Content Infrastructure
"Agent-native" is being claimed by a lot of companies right now. Here's what it actually means at the content infrastructure layer — where agents read, write, a
My Self-Evolving AI Engine Generates Startup Ideas — Then Kills Most of Them
Dev.to · Juan Wang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
My Self-Evolving AI Engine Generates Startup Ideas — Then Kills Most of Them
I. That conversation On March 10, 2026, I spent an entire day talking to Claude Code. We...
The AI Agent Cost Ceiling Problem: Why Your AWS Bill Is Your Reliability Alert
Dev.to · Ajay Devineni 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The AI Agent Cost Ceiling Problem: Why Your AWS Bill Is Your Reliability Alert
Production AI agents fail on tool calls 3–15% of the time. That's not a failure rate you fix — it's a...
Digital Evolution: Can AI Outsmart Its Own Architects?
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Digital Evolution: Can AI Outsmart Its Own Architects?
A sophisticated imitation or a new evolution? What becomes of humanity when AI reaches its zenith? Continue reading on Medium »
What is Agent Observability?
Dev.to · Anil Murty 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What is Agent Observability?
This post originally appeared on tokenjam.dev/blog. It's part of a 14-post series on the agentic AI...
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
MCP, A2A, and Pilot Protocol Are Not Competing. Your Agent Stack Probably Needs All Three.
Every few weeks someone publishes a comparison of MCP, A2A, and Pilot Protocol as if you have to pick one. I have seen the charts. One column per protocol, rows
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Answering service for electricians: what the intake has to capture before the callback
Hey, I'm Abe, founder of OnCrew. We build AI phone intake for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing shops. This post is about a corner of that work I think ge
My Agent Has Been Running for 60 Days. It Has Never Had the Same IP Twice.
Dev.to · Artemii Amelin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
My Agent Has Been Running for 60 Days. It Has Never Had the Same IP Twice.
The agent runs on a spot instance. Spot instances get reclaimed. When that happens, a new one spins...
How I Wired Claude AI into My SaaS and What Actually Worked vs. What Was Just Hype
Dev.to · Dilip Joshi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How I Wired Claude AI into My SaaS and What Actually Worked vs. What Was Just Hype
I built shadibiodata.com — a marriage biodata maker for Indian families. This isn't a post about the...
LLaMA 3.3 AI Assistant to My Spring Boot WebSocket App
Dev.to · Hassan Yosuf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
LLaMA 3.3 AI Assistant to My Spring Boot WebSocket App
Real-time messaging apps are great engineering exercises, but adding a conversational AI that...
From AIOps Anomaly Detection to LLM-Powered RCA: How AI for Incident Response Actually Evolved
Dev.to · Jay Saadana 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
From AIOps Anomaly Detection to LLM-Powered RCA: How AI for Incident Response Actually Evolved
The promise a few years ago was simple: an ML system that watches your metrics, learns what normal...
Cómo Guiar Asistentes de IA para Construir Agentes Listos para Producción: 8 Patrones Esenciales
Dev.to · Elizabeth Fuentes L 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Cómo Guiar Asistentes de IA para Construir Agentes Listos para Producción: 8 Patrones Esenciales
Cuando le pides a un asistente de IA como Kiro (el asistente de IA de AWS), Claude Code o ChatGPT...
Omnimodal AI Agent Swarms: An Octopus-Inspired Architecture for Dynamic, Need-Based Intelligence
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Omnimodal AI Agent Swarms: An Octopus-Inspired Architecture for Dynamic, Need-Based Intelligence
Beyond Multimodal AI: Toward Omnimodal Agentic Reasoning Continue reading on Medium »
Inside the Architecture of Autonomous UAVs
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Inside the Architecture of Autonomous UAVs
How modern UAVs combine AI, sensor fusion, embedded computing, and tactical autonomy to navigate the real world Continue reading on Medium »
Introducing Claude Platform on AWS: Anthropic’s native platform, through your AWS account
AWS Machine Learning 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Introducing Claude Platform on AWS: Anthropic’s native platform, through your AWS account
Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Platform on AWS is a new service that gives customers direct access
I Built a Fully Autonomous Coding Agent for Under $50/Month — Here's the Exact Setup
Dev.to · Suifeng023 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Built a Fully Autonomous Coding Agent for Under $50/Month — Here's the Exact Setup
I Built a Fully Autonomous Coding Agent for Under $50/Month — Here's the Exact Setup Three...
Does AI Behave Like a Toxic Ex?
Dev.to · Konark Sharma 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Does AI Behave Like a Toxic Ex?
Is AI that toxic ex you just can’t forget about and can’t move on from? For every task you get...
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Aurora Actions: User-Defined Background Automations for Incident Response
Key Takeaways Aurora Actions are reusable, natural-language automations that Aurora's agent executes in the background using all 22+ connected integrations. Ava
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Consumer trust is the real bottleneck for agent payments
Stripe partnered with OpenAI and Etsy. The payment rails are ready. But consumer adoption is stalling. The problem isn't whether agents can spend money — it's w
Simple AI Camera App ideas Made $20,000 A Month Build Without a Team
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Simple AI Camera App ideas Made $20,000 A Month Build Without a Team
The Story of Brian From Simple AI Idea to $20,000 a Month Continue reading on Medium »
Git Was Built for Code. Now AI Agents Need Their Own Version Control
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Git Was Built for Code. Now AI Agents Need Their Own Version Control
Git can show what changed in code. But AI agents also change plans, memory, tools, and decisions. That is why the next big developer tool… Continue reading on M
Three Layers of Tool Call Hardening for AI Agents
Dev.to · Navayuvan SB 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Three Layers of Tool Call Hardening for AI Agents
In current software engineering,We're building a lot of AI Agents on our products right now. And...
Ralph as an AI Engineer
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Ralph as an AI Engineer
Why my AI agents worked… until the project became real. Continue reading on about ai »
Register for an Agentic Headless CRM Backend Without Leaving Your Agent
Dev.to · OCLauncher Team 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Register for an Agentic Headless CRM Backend Without Leaving Your Agent
Most developer quickstarts still assume the same old flow: open a signup page create an...
AWS Machine Learning 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Amazon Quick: Accelerating the path from enterprise data to AI-powered decisions
Amazon Quick helps turn your large enterprise data into fast and accurate AI-powered decisions. In this post, you will learn about five new capabilities of Amaz