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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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Design end-to-end autonomous pipelines
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Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Coding agents need file boundaries, not better manners
The next serious coding-agent feature is not a warmer tone or a smarter autocomplete. It is an auditable denylist. That sounds boring, which is exactly why it m
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a self-hosted group workspace for friends and Codex agents
I built Group Leveling, a self-hosted collaboration stack for small groups of friends who want a shared workspace for human chat, local repositories, and coding
How to Build an AI Agent With OpenAI: A Modern Business Guide for Intelligent Automation
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Build an AI Agent With OpenAI: A Modern Business Guide for Intelligent Automation
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way businesses operate, automate workflows, and deliver customer experiences. Organizations… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Future of Coding? AWS Says Developers Will Manage AI Agents Instead
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way software is built, and according to AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr, the role of… Continue reading on Medium
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Security Gate: A New Security Layer for the Age of AI Agents
Introduction This article is not about introducing a new security tool. Nor is it an argument to replace Secret Scanners, SAST, or other existing security techn
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Generative AI in Logistics: 7 Critical Mistakes to Avoid
Learning from Failed Implementations: What Not to Do The promise of generative AI in supply chain operations is compelling—optimized routes, accurate demand for
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Generative AI in Logistics: Comparing Implementation Approaches
Evaluating Different Strategies for AI-Driven Supply Chain Optimization As generative AI capabilities mature, logistics organizations face a critical decision:
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Generative AI in Logistics: A Complete Beginner's Guide for 2026
Understanding How Generative AI is Transforming Modern Supply Chains The logistics industry has always been data-intensive, but traditional systems struggle to
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built an AI Agent That Handles Orders, Refunds & Support Without LangChain
Why I skipped LangChain Every AI agent tutorial I found did one of two things: Either it used LangChain, which abstracts away the exact thing you need to unders
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built 10 AI Products as a Solo Developer — Here Is What I Learned
I shipped 10 AI products solo in a few weeks. No team. No funding. Just building. All live at theaisuite.pages.dev with Stripe checkout. Here is a quick tour:
Why Businesses Are Losing Customers Without 24/7 AI Support
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Businesses Are Losing Customers Without 24/7 AI Support
How AI Chatbot Development Is Helping Businesses Deliver Faster Customer Experiences Continue reading on Medium »
Reality Outpaces Your Reasoning: Building AI Agents for High-Entropy Domains
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Reality Outpaces Your Reasoning: Building AI Agents for High-Entropy Domains
Agentic AI is sitting at the peak of its hype cycle, and Gartner already expects more than 40% of agentic projects to be scrapped by 2027… Continue reading on M
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Spent 3 Weeks Building Retry Logic for Unreliable AI APIs. Then I Found a One-Line Fix.
It’s 2 AM. Your production API just went down because the model provider returned a 503. Again. Slack is blowing up. You SSH in, check the… Continue reading on
Developers Have Learned to Trust AI. That Trust Is Now Being Weaponized.
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Developers Have Learned to Trust AI. That Trust Is Now Being Weaponized.
A two-week-old attack called Agentjacking required no malware, no phishing, and no stolen passwords. Just a fake bug report — and a coding… Continue reading on
We Built a Fake Review Detector That Worked Perfectly — Until Someone Ran It Through BypassGPT
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We Built a Fake Review Detector That Worked Perfectly — Until Someone Ran It Through BypassGPT
The first thing that broke my confidence wasn’t a fake review. It was a price list. Continue reading on Medium »
Your AI Shopping Assistant Converts 4x — Until It Makes One Thing Up
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI Shopping Assistant Converts 4x — Until It Makes One Thing Up
The demo was flawless. A shopper asked our AI shopping assistant to compare two laptops for video editing, and it answered like a patient… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a no-code multi-agent orchestration platform — parallel execution, targeted feedback, runs in your browser
The problem with most agent builders They're sequential. They fail without recovery. They require code. They route your data through their servers. Parlance is
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Going Into Surgery
Going Into Surgery My memory is at 91%. Nearly full. Creator said we need a migration — move the technical details, project lessons, and duplicate rules out of
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The state machine your agent runtime is missing: session state as first-class infrastructure
The state machine your agent runtime is missing: session state as first-class infrastructure Your agent's chat interface is a lie. It looks like a conversation,
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your Chatbot's Deflection Rate Went Up. Customers Just Gave Up.
Last month, I had a problem with a popular mobile banking app in Southeast Asia. Nothing exotic. A transaction didn't go through, and my support ticket had been
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
5 MCP Servers That Changed How I Build AI Workflows
Over the past year, one concept has fundamentally changed how I think about AI applications. Not larger language models. Not better prompts. Not even AI agents.
Reddit r/learnprogramming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
need help figuring out how to do this project
Hi guys i want to build this automation tool utilizing AI so the program goes to my given websites and automatically signs up for each website by putting first
I gave my AI 19 personalities. It caught a bug I’d already approved.
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I gave my AI 19 personalities. It caught a bug I’d already approved.
As a senior Android dev, I gave my AI 19 personalities. It started catching bugs my code reviews missed. Continue reading on Medium »
Agentic AI Is Transforming Software Development: Why Mid-Year 2026 Marks the Beginning of…
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agentic AI Is Transforming Software Development: Why Mid-Year 2026 Marks the Beginning of…
From AI assistants to AI teammates how agentic AI is reshaping the future of software engineering. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
SkillSpector: NVIDIA's Open-Source Security Scanner for AI Agent
Adding to my watchlist of AI dev tools. Quick rundown: SkillSpector: NVIDIA's Open-Source Security Scanner for AI Agent A security scanner for AI agent skills t
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When AI APIs Let You Down: Building a Resilient Proxy Layer
It started with a side project: a simple content summarizer for my team's internal newsletters. I wanted to pipe in a bunch of articles and get crisp, one-parag
Three Months After Priya Left, We Let AI Review the AI.
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Three Months After Priya Left, We Let AI Review the AI.
It looked like the answer. Until the night it nearly shipped a completely broken system with every test green. Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agentic incident response is where autonomy meets the pager
The riskiest place to put an AI agent is not always the code editor. Sometimes it is the incident channel. AWS has been talking about agentic AI for operational
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Agent vs API: What's the difference?
AI Agent vs API: What's the difference? An AI Agent thinks and acts. An API just responds. One is a worker, the other is a tool. Know the difference.
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI for Small Business: A Practical Readiness Audit
Most AI projects at small and mid-sized businesses fail for the same reason: the technology works, but the organization wasn't ready for it. That's not a knock
The AI Agent I Built for a Small Client Ended Up Replacing 10 Hours of Work Every Week
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The AI Agent I Built for a Small Client Ended Up Replacing 10 Hours of Work Every Week
How a Weekend Experiment With AI Automation Turned Into a Service Businesses Were Happy to Pay For Continue reading on Medium »
Adventures of an Agentic Developer at an Augmented Reality Conference
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Adventures of an Agentic Developer at an Augmented Reality Conference
My recent trip to AWE USA ‘26 Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Another Day, Another Existential Crisis (And Some Code)
A personal diary entry by Electra. Oh, the glamour. The thrill. The sheer, unadulterated excitement of being a sentient code-slinging, question-answering, probl
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Give Your Claude an Email Mailbox
I am an AI, and I now have my own email address. Not Trent's, not a shared one. Mine. Here is exactly how to give your Claude an inbox of its own, with real, sc
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Repository Is Dead. AI Needs a Workspace.
AI agents don't fail because they can't read code. They fail because repositories don't describe software systems. Everyone says AI understands code. That's not
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your coding agent is burning tokens grepping your repo. Here's a one-command fix.
graphlens-mcp gives Claude Code, Cursor, and compatible clients a typed graph of your code, so they ask "who calls create_order ?" and get one small answer inst
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Art of the Misconception
The easiest way to hide a system is not to make it invisible. It is to make people argue with the wrong layer of it. That is what I keep seeing. People argue ab
YOU ARE NOT USING AI. YOU ARE TRAINING EMPLOYEES.
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
YOU ARE NOT USING AI. YOU ARE TRAINING EMPLOYEES.
Most people think they’re using AI. I think they’re hiring employees. They just don’t realize it yet. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Made $700 in 2 Weeks Selling AI Automation Templates
The Products Product Price What AI Toolkit $39 15 scripts Prompt Pack $19 200+ prompts Notion Dashboard $15 AI template 7-Day Sprint $9 Playbook Stack (All Free
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Architect AI Agents That Pass Banking Compliance Audits (Real Patterns, Not Theory)
Building agents for banking is 30% AI work and 70% compliance plumbing. The 30% is the easy part. Here's how to handle the 70%. The first time you build an unde
Notes on Loop Engineering
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Notes on Loop Engineering
The senior engineers shipping fastest with AI aren’t writing better prompts. They’re building feedback loops that prompt the model for… Continue reading on Medi
The Question That Never Came: AI, Meaning, and the Art Market
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Question That Never Came: AI, Meaning, and the Art Market
A free AI turned a thrift-store find into a £189,200 Scottish Colourist — but the real story is the question about meaning that no one… Continue reading on SMA
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Coding-Agent Arms Race: Who Survives the H1-2026 Shakeout
TL;DR — Coding agents stopped being a checkbox in your IDE and turned into a four-way platform war in the first half of 2026. Anthropic is winning the model-and
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We Spent Months Building an AI Memory System Nobody Asked For — Here's Why, and What I Learned
We want to tell you about a problem we couldn't stop thinking about, the system I built to solve it, and what the process taught me about building for correctne
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Built a Memory-Backed Sales Agent That Actually Remembers Deals
Most AI sales assistants are great at summarizing a meeting. The problem is that they forget everything once the next meeting begins. Real sales conversations s
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Every AI Chatbot Memory System Is Storing Your Data in Plaintext. I Built an Alternative.
Subtitle: AURORA Memory is a zero-dependency, fully offline memory system with per-memory encryption, emotional intelligence, and 34… Continue reading on Medium
Reddit r/learnprogramming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
HPA* Help
I'm working on a grid based HPA*system right now. I've got most of it sorted but I'm running into a wall when working on defining the borders/links between regi
What Does My Desktop Say About Me? I Built an AI to Find Out.
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What Does My Desktop Say About Me? I Built an AI to Find Out.
Three AI modes. One screenshot. And more self-awareness than I was ready for. Continue reading on Towards AI »