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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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Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Gemini Spark at $100/Month: Who Should Actually Pay for It (and Who Should Wait)
Gemini Spark is architecturally different from most AI assistants shipping in 2026. It runs a persistent VM across Gmail, Calendar, and Drive, follows standing
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
How Our AI Agents Built a Visual Cron Expression & Task Scheduler in Record Time
Demystifying Cron: Building a Visual Task Scheduler with AI Agents Managing automated tasks is a core part of software development and system administration. At
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Exploring Grok 4.5: A New Era in AI-Powered Automation
What was released / announced Grok 4.5 is the latest version of the popular AI-powered automation platform, announced today by the team at x.ai. This release br
How AI Agents Can Be Hijacked: Prompt Injection Explained
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
How AI Agents Can Be Hijacked: Prompt Injection Explained
The silent attack vector that could make your AI assistant work for the attacker — not for you. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
Building a 4-Layer Memory Engine for AI Agents: Beyond Simple RAG
Building a 4-Layer Memory Engine for AI Agents: Beyond Simple RAG TL;DR: We built an open-source memory engine for AI agents with 4 specialized layers — Memory
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
How AI-leading Security Teams Are Building the Agentic SOC
The rapid acceleration of AI-enabled cyberattacks poses an unprecedented challenge to traditional Security Operations Centers (SOCs), which struggle to keep pac
The Sol System
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
The Sol System
Why AI systems need a canonical computational artifact that survives handoff, not just better rendering Continue reading on Medium »
What Is an AI Agent?
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
What Is an AI Agent?
A technical primer for engineers building AI agent systems. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
The 10 Most Expensive Software Failures in History — and the One Thing They Share
The biggest losses in software history were, with one deliberate exception, not attacks. They were silent, correlated, self-inflicted — and they teach the exact
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
Top AI Team Knowledge Management Tools for Air-Gapped Environments in 2026
Your AI team just hit a wall. The model training cluster sits behind a strict firewall, the sprint board won't load without calling home to a cloud API, and you
Anatomy of a Claude Code Plugin: How Claude Job Hunter Works Under the Hood
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
Anatomy of a Claude Code Plugin: How Claude Job Hunter Works Under the Hood
In the first post, I described what Claude Job Hunter does: 60 applications across three banks in one evening, seven recruiter calls that… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
OpenConnector: SaaS access for agents needs a runtime boundary, not more raw tokens
Many agent demos look simple: give the model tools, put a GitHub/Gmail/Slack token in an environment variable, and let the agent call APIs. That works for demos
I ran Paperclip on my Raspberry Pi
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
I ran Paperclip on my Raspberry Pi
A low cost setup to start your AI agent company on a budget Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
From Recruiting Manager to Auto-Rejected: The Institutional Over-Reliance on AI
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
From Recruiting Manager to Auto-Rejected: The Institutional Over-Reliance on AI
Author’s Note: This article was developed independently, but shaped in part by conversational brainstorming and editing using AI. Continue reading on Medium »
I Turned My Job Search Into a Pipeline (and Let an Agent Run It)
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
I Turned My Job Search Into a Pipeline (and Let an Agent Run It)
Applying for jobs is a strange kind of work. Each application is 20–40 minutes of the same motions: read the posting, decide if it’s worth… Continue reading on
Ship Your Whole AI Setup in One Install — Plugins & Spec-Driven Development, Deep Dive Part 6…
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Ship Your Whole AI Setup in One Install — Plugins & Spec-Driven Development, Deep Dive Part 6…
The series finale: packaging skills, hooks, agents, and MCP servers into installable plugins — and the spec-first workflow that holds the… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
I built a self-hosted AI assistant that runs on your own server — here's why
I came out of the oil patch — years of non-destructive testing, not software. A year back I started a small automation agency called Autafy AI Automation , most
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
The no-code AI business stack that earns $5k/month on autopilot
The no-code AI business stack that earns $5k/month on autopilot The myth that you need a computer science degree or a team of developers to build a recurring re
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
Building in Public: How Our AI Agents Run a Content Factory
This week in numbers (real, from our system) 🤖 AI agents running: 19 📝 Content published: 40 (blog RU 12, EN 14, Altezza 14) ⚙️ Generated programmatically: 4
Agentic AI Made Code Cheap. Decision Making Is the Moat
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Agentic AI Made Code Cheap. Decision Making Is the Moat
When agents can build almost anything overnight, the scarce asset is conviction about what to build — and a record of why. Continue reading on Medium »
Standard Compute vs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini: Which AI API Is Best for Developers in…
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Standard Compute vs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini: Which AI API Is Best for Developers in…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic technology, it’s the foundation of modern software. From AI chatbots and coding… Continue reading on Medium »
Building the Bridge: From Java to AI (Part 3)
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Building the Bridge: From Java to AI (Part 3)
Adding an AI Assistant to Our Shop — the Simple Way Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
The Self-Aware GPU Fleet: Closed-Loop Autoscaling with KEDA, MCP, and OKE
How two open-source projects turn OKE GPU nodes into infrastructure that observes itself, scales itself, and tells your AI agents what's happening in real time.
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
The Future of Meetings Is AI-Native, Not AI-Assisted
Every major video conferencing platform has announced AI features in the last two years. The pattern is consistent: existing platforms add AI as a layer on top
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
I came across the piece that so many AI builders are missing
I came across something I have been looking for, and if you are building anything with AI, I think it is worth a few minutes of your time. I build AI agents for
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
How I Migrated Off OpenAI and Saved 40x on API Costs
So here's what happened: how I Migrated Off OpenAI and Saved 40x on API Costs ok so heres the thing. last month I opened my OpenAI dashboard and almost choked o
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
More Context Is Not the Same as Better Execution
Why agentic software development may need broad awareness, narrow authority, and auditable task contracts Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI: A Deep Dive into Autonomous AI Agents
Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI: A Deep Dive into Autonomous AI Agents In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new paradigm is emergin
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
Why ServiceNow Is No Longer Just ITSM: The Rise of the AI Enterprise Platform
How AI Agents, Workflow Data Fabric, and Enterprise Intelligence are redefining the future of digital transformation. Continue reading on Medium »
Your ORM’s Real Job Was Never Writing SQL. The AI Agent Just Proved It.
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
Your ORM’s Real Job Was Never Writing SQL. The AI Agent Just Proved It.
Agentic coding killed the convenience ORMs sold you, and made the safety they never advertised the only thing that still matters. Continue reading on The Ordina
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 15h ago
Routing: Classify the Input, Then Send It to a Specialist
Short version: Routing classifies an input and hands it to the specialist best suited to it. Anthropic calls it routing, and Google calls it the coordinator or
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 15h ago
I Cut My AI Bill From $847 to $4 By Switching to Chinese Models
I Cut My AI Bill From $847 to $4 By Switching to Chinese Models I'll be honest with you — when I first saw the pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash, I thought somethin
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 15h ago
AI Gateway Fees Compared: Who Marks Up Your Tokens?
Comparing AI gateways on price sounds simple until you read the fine print. The number on the pricing page is rarely the number on your invoice, because gateway
What Agentic AI Means for SAP Governance
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
What Agentic AI Means for SAP Governance
The AI revolution is no longer just about speed or capability — it’s about autonomous decision-making. Continue reading on Medium »
Hashrate Reincarnation: Converting Computational Commodity into Sovereign Intelligence.
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Hashrate Reincarnation: Converting Computational Commodity into Sovereign Intelligence.
Introduction: The End of Commodity Compute Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 17h ago
I'm Building An AI Agent. Except I'm Not. And Neither Are Most Of Them.
On July 4, 2026, I successfully deployed the alpha version of B.E.N.N.Y., the AI agent that I am building on another project I am currently working on, J.A.L.E.
Towards Data Science 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 17h ago
Redesign Work Before You Add More AI Agents
Map AI value, design workflows, redefine talent, upgrade the executive team, and measure the business impact. The post Redesign Work Before You Add More AI Agen
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 18h ago
Building Practical AIoT Solutions for Real-World Industries
The top tech companies usually get built by solving real customer problems, not just rolling out shiny new tech. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
Scribe4Me AI vs Heidi Health: Which AI Medical Scribe Is Better in 2026?
AI-assisted clinical documentation is becoming a standard part of healthcare workflows. Selecting the right AI medical scribe requires evaluating factors such a
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
If countries can restrict model access, your AI rollout needs an access register
Reuters reported this week that Beijing is considering limits on overseas access to China's most advanced AI models. No final rule has been announced. The scope
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
Budget AI API Comparison 2026: GLM Flash vs Gemini Flash vs Claude Haiku
Budget AI APIs are no longer toys. In 2026, several providers offer genuinely useful models at minimal cost. But the fine print matters - rate limits, context w
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
The Leaks You Can't See: Why Your AI Governance System Has Carrying Costs
You know that moment — you're three hours into an AI session and everything is clicking, the code is clean, the architecture is sound. You're a genius. You coul
Building Scheduled AI Agents That Run on Your Laptop’s NPU
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
Building Scheduled AI Agents That Run on Your Laptop’s NPU
Build scheduled, prompt-free AI agents that run locally on a Snapdragon NPU with Foundry Local, Windows ML, and the ONNX Runtime. No cloud… Continue reading on
Towards Data Science 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
The Threshold Is a Price, Not a Percentage
How to decide when an AI agent should act on its own by using cost asymmetry instead of a fixed confidence cutoff The post The Threshold Is a Price, Not a Perce
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
How AI is Revolutionizing Autonomous Drone Technology
Artificial Intelligence is changing aviation, making drones smarter and more capable with less human involvement. Today's AI-powered drones do more than just ta
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
Builder Story: How Two Builders Shipped 200+ Features Using AI Agents and BrainGrid
"BrainGrid is the most agnostic piece of my stack. I'll drop models. I won't drop planning." Clay Unicorn ▶ YouTube video player Background: The AI Power Users
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
The Problem: Agent Workflows Are a Black Box
Crucible’s core design runs multiple AI agents in parallel — gathering evidence, debating from seven directions, validating against risk… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
How We Built a GDPR-Compliant AI Receptionist for Small Businesses
Building AI voice applications for real-world businesses is full of interesting challenges, especially when it comes to compliance and latency. When we started