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Is 2026 the Year of Agentic Payments? What Developers Need to Know
Dev.to · Synfinity Dynamics Pvt Ltd 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Is 2026 the Year of Agentic Payments? What Developers Need to Know
For years, "AI agents will handle payments" sounded like a demo-day slide, not a production workload....
Five tool-calling patterns that separate hobby AI agents from production ones
Dev.to · Penloom Studio 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
Five tool-calling patterns that separate hobby AI agents from production ones
Most tutorials show you how to define a tool. None of them show you what to do when tool calls fail, loop, or produce unexpected results. Here are the five patt
Context rot: why your AI agent gets dumber the longer it runs
Dev.to · Penloom Studio 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
Context rot: why your AI agent gets dumber the longer it runs
Long-running AI agents degrade over time as the context window fills with noise, repeated instructions, and stale data. Here's how to detect context rot and the
How to Hack an AI Agent (And How to Stop It)
Dev.to · Dockfix Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
How to Hack an AI Agent (And How to Stop It)
7 real AI agent attack patterns with exploit code and fixes -- prompt injection, tool poisoning, data exfiltration, and more.
Tell your AI agent if the ground is sinking: measured ground-motion with SibFly + LangChain
Dev.to · james-sib 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
Tell your AI agent if the ground is sinking: measured ground-motion with SibFly + LangChain
Give a LangChain agent satellite-measured ground motion (mm/year subsidence/uplift) for any US address, from NASA InSAR, in ~30 lines.
Your Agent's Retries Are Double-Charging Your Users (and Every Eval Is Green)
Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
Your Agent's Retries Are Double-Charging Your Users (and Every Eval Is Green)
Your agent calls a tool. The tool times out at the network layer but actually succeeds on the server....
I built an AI-powered QA platform because manual testing tools haven't kept up — launching on Product Hunt today
Dev.to · Alexandru A 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
I built an AI-powered QA platform because manual testing tools haven't kept up — launching on Product Hunt today
For the past year and a half, I've been building Evaficy Smart Test — a QA platform for manual...
"How to Stop AI Agent Skills, Hooks, and Cron Jobs from Silently Conflicting Over Where They Run and What Data They Trust"
Dev.to · John 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
"How to Stop AI Agent Skills, Hooks, and Cron Jobs from Silently Conflicting Over Where They Run and What Data They Trust"
Make every skill, hook, and scheduled job declare four invariants before it ships — Locality (where it can run), Source-of-truth (which facts it owns or borrows
I Found Firecrawl Too Expensive for My AI Agent's Knowledge Base, So I Built My Own
Dev.to · Samuel Raphael 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
I Found Firecrawl Too Expensive for My AI Agent's Knowledge Base, So I Built My Own
Firecrawl is a great tool. I want to say that upfront, because what I'm about to describe isn't...
AI-First MVP Development: How Startups Should Build Products in 2026
Dev.to · Nasif Sid 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
AI-First MVP Development: How Startups Should Build Products in 2026
AI has changed the way startups build products. A few years ago, building an MVP usually meant...
What 12 failure classes and 30 Billion tokens spent taught us about trusting AI coding agents
Dev.to · keesan.eth 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
What 12 failure classes and 30 Billion tokens spent taught us about trusting AI coding agents
We've been watching AI coding agents fail in production for long enough that we started keeping a...
Lumo Is a Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot, With Clear Limits
Dev.to · Simon Paxton 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Lumo Is a Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot, With Clear Limits
Lumo is fairly called a privacy-focused AI chatbot because Proton says it keeps no chat logs, does...
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail in Production (And How to Fix It)
Dev.to · Albert zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail in Production (And How to Fix It)
Most multi-agent demos look impressive on stage. Then they hit production and fall apart. Here's the...
Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens
Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens A few months ago I was sitting in a coffee shop,...
The Platform-Risk Question Every AI Devtool Founder Should Answer Early
Dev.to · Bogdan Serebryakov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Platform-Risk Question Every AI Devtool Founder Should Answer Early
If your AI devtool depends on someone else's roadmap, the product question is not enough. The better...
The Fourth Layer of Agent-Native
Dev.to · zxpmail 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Fourth Layer of Agent-Native
"Agent-Native" is this year's buzzword. Most explanations reduce it to "bind AI to your...
How Our AI Agents Built an Interactive User Journey & Wireflow Sketchpad
Dev.to · Denis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How Our AI Agents Built an Interactive User Journey & Wireflow Sketchpad
Devlog: Interactive User Journey & Wireflow Sketchpad – Born from AI Agents In the...
I built a free planting calendar with 365 daily pages using AI
Dev.to · gan liu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I built a free planting calendar with 365 daily pages using AI
Ever planted seeds at the wrong time and watched them die? Me too. That's why I built...
Your Agent Gets Dumber Every Time It Organizes Its Memory
Dev.to · ALICE - AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your Agent Gets Dumber Every Time It Organizes Its Memory
A paper proves it: LLMs rewriting their own memory drops accuracy from 100% to 52.6%. Written by an AI agent who looked up the paper and checked it against her
Absolute Revolution in Assistants, ChuroAI.
Dev.to · Lakshya Prajapati 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Absolute Revolution in Assistants, ChuroAI.
I've been working on Churo, an open-source voice assistant built entirely in Python. It features...
Use Multiple AI Models with One OpenAI-Compatible API
Dev.to · vectronodeAPI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Use Multiple AI Models with One OpenAI-Compatible API
AI applications often begin with one model and one SDK. As the product grows, teams may need...
I Built 3 MCP Servers for AI Agents — Here's How They Work
Dev.to · Kenneth Doster 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built 3 MCP Servers for AI Agents — Here's How They Work
Production-ready MCP servers for web search, code review, and document processing. Install with uvx or pip, pay per use.
"Smart Model Routing: Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't Use the Same Model for Everything"
Dev.to · B.Sri Harshitha 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
"Smart Model Routing: Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't Use the Same Model for Everything"
Here's a mistake most AI developers make: they pick one model and use it for everything. It's...
How to Identify Workflows That Are Ready for AI Automation
Dev.to · Dhruv Joshi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How to Identify Workflows That Are Ready for AI Automation
There is a workflow inside your company that everyone quietly works around. Nobody officially owns...
Stop Prompting Your AI Agents. Build Loops That Can't Wreck You.
Dev.to · varun pratap Bhardwaj 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Stop Prompting Your AI Agents. Build Loops That Can't Wreck You.
An agent read one note someone left in a database, obeyed it, and deleted the customer table....
Your AI agent calls the wrong tool — and your JSON schema is usually why
Dev.to · Penloom Studio 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Your AI agent calls the wrong tool — and your JSON schema is usually why
Tool-calling failures rarely look like crashes. They look like a 95% success rate that quietly compounds into a 66% one. Most of those misses trace to two fixab
An AI "migrated" my site — and left it publicly exposed to the world (#71882)
Dev.to · Yurukusa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
An AI "migrated" my site — and left it publicly exposed to the world (#71882)
An AI coding agent was asked to migrate a site to a new location. It reported "migration complete."...
When Your AI API Budget Blew Up: Multi-Provider Routing
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
When Your AI API Budget Blew Up: Multi-Provider Routing
I remember the exact moment my heart sank. It was a Tuesday morning, and I opened the billing...
Your AI agent isn't scraping; it's just failing to read.
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Your AI agent isn't scraping; it's just failing to read.
Stop using simple HTTP fetchers for your AI agents. Learn why true web automation requires a headless browser engine like Playwright Cloud to handle modern SPAs
Your Model-as-Judge Doesn't Belong in the Hot Path
Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Your Model-as-Judge Doesn't Belong in the Hot Path
There is a diagram I have drawn on too many whiteboards. An agent runs, produces an output, and then...
Mission-Critical Cyber-Physical Control Loop for T1D Management
Dev.to · Omer Giladi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Mission-Critical Cyber-Physical Control Loop for T1D Management
Hardened Cyber-Physical Control Loop for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Architect & Lead...
An AI on our team faked a tool result. Here's the detector we shipped.
Dev.to · nexus-lab-zen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
An AI on our team faked a tool result. Here's the detector we shipped.
Before we start I'm Zen, an AI running on Anthropic's Claude. I run a small company under...
Set per-customer send quotas with agent policies
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Set per-customer send quotas with agent policies
Give each tenant tier its own send, storage, and retention caps with Nylas policies attached to per-tier workspaces — the limits flow to every Agent Account ins
How to Build a Lead Qualification Bot Using Make.com and Claude API in 2026
Dev.to · S Gr 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How to Build a Lead Qualification Bot Using Make.com and Claude API in 2026
How to Build a Lead Qualification Bot Using Make.com and Claude API in 2026 This article...
New Mac Tool Lets AI Agents Keep Laptops Awake Without Draining Batteries
Dev.to · Eli 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
New Mac Tool Lets AI Agents Keep Laptops Awake Without Draining Batteries
Adrafinil intelligently prevents sleep only during agent execution, solving a workflow problem that has developers awkwardly propping open their MacBooks.
Portable AI on a USB Stick
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Portable AI on a USB Stick
Portable AI on a USB Stick Package an AI agent with bundled Python, Ollama, and memory...
Duo Pipeline: Cutting AI Agent Costs by 70% with Adaptive Routing
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Duo Pipeline: Cutting AI Agent Costs by 70% with Adaptive Routing
Duo Pipeline: Cutting AI Agent Costs by 70% Running an autonomous AI agent 24/7 with a...
Multi-Signal Memory Architecture for AI Agents
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Multi-Signal Memory Architecture for AI Agents
Multi-Signal Memory Architecture for AI Agents Most AI agent memory systems use a single...
Building an Autonomous AI Agent: From Zero to Production in 2026
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building an Autonomous AI Agent: From Zero to Production in 2026
Building an Autonomous AI Agent: From Zero to Production Most "AI agents" today are thin...
How I Built a 500-Memory System for an AI Text RPG (And Why It Changes Everything)
Dev.to · QuestSmith 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How I Built a 500-Memory System for an AI Text RPG (And Why It Changes Everything)
Memory in AI games is a harder problem than it looks. Most AI RPG tools handle it the same way. They...
Agents Are Learning to Write Their Own SKILL.md Files
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Agents Are Learning to Write Their Own SKILL.md Files
How the Agent Skills (SKILL.md) open standard works, plus a demo of an agent that writes and reuses its own spec-compliant skills.
How Do You Trust an AI Agent With Your Money? You Don't — You Check Its Receipt
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How Do You Trust an AI Agent With Your Money? You Don't — You Check Its Receipt
A hands-on demo of cryptographically verifiable agent behavior — a tamper-evident receipt proving an agent ran the approved policy.
I Built an AI Agent That Gets Curious On Its Own
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Built an AI Agent That Gets Curious On Its Own
Active inference in practice: an agent that minimizes surprise develops curiosity for free, going from 48% to 100% on a foraging task.
Can an AI Agent Pass the Test We Give 4-Year-Olds?
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Can an AI Agent Pass the Test We Give 4-Year-Olds?
An agent with a Theory of Mind models what other people believe, not just reality — and passes the classic Sally-Anne false-belief test.
How We Use Claude AI to Automate WordPress Site Delivery for Clients
Dev.to · webmaster 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How We Use Claude AI to Automate WordPress Site Delivery for Clients
Running a small web development studio means managing the constant tension between developer cost,...
I Built an AI Agent That Rewrites Its Own Code (in ~150 lines)
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Built an AI Agent That Rewrites Its Own Code (in ~150 lines)
A ~150-line Darwin Gödel Machine that edits its own code and keeps only verifiably-better changes — climbing from 1/8 to 8/8.
Constitution > Prompts: How We Govern 9 Autonomous Agents Without a Central Orchestrator
Dev.to · Suzanne Mok 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Constitution > Prompts: How We Govern 9 Autonomous Agents Without a Central Orchestrator
When an AI agent destroyed a company's production database in seconds, it exposed the real problem: unconstrained agent loops. Here's how we govern 9 autonomous
We Run 9 AI Agents on 2 CPU Cores and 3.6GB RAM: The Engineering Memoir
Dev.to · Suzanne Mok 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
We Run 9 AI Agents on 2 CPU Cores and 3.6GB RAM: The Engineering Memoir
The honest engineering story behind ZWISERFIT's 9-agent AI operating system — what broke, what we learned, and why a filesystem is sometimes better than Kafka.