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Explain the ReAct pattern
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Implement function calling with structured schemas
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Anthropic API Learnings, Claude Code Structural Blindspots & AI Agent Security Red Team
Dev.to · soy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Anthropic API Learnings, Claude Code Structural Blindspots & AI Agent Security Red Team
Anthropic API Learnings, Claude Code Structural Blindspots & AI Agent Security Red...
Building the private markets data infra for AI agents
Dev.to · Shiv Vasandani 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building the private markets data infra for AI agents
Hey everyone, I’m Shiv, heading GTM for akta.pro. For the last three years, our team at Wokelo AI has...
Your Payment API Wasn't Built for AI Agents. Open Banking Might Be the Fix.
Dev.to · arun rajkumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your Payment API Wasn't Built for AI Agents. Open Banking Might Be the Fix.
Stripe just shipped an Agentic Commerce Suite. PayPal launched Agent Ready. Visa predicts millions of...
Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration: Lessons from AgentForge
Dev.to · Albert zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration: Lessons from AgentForge
We built AgentForge to solve our own problem. Here's what 6 months of production multi-agent...
AI Agents in Practice — Part 3: How the Control Loop Actually Works
Dev.to · Gursharan Singh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Agents in Practice — Part 3: How the Control Loop Actually Works
State, stopping, and context — three engineering problems hiding inside five simple words.
I Wired 8 MCP Servers Into One Claude Agent. 3 Pairs Quietly Fought Over the Same Tool Name.
Dev.to · Ken Imoto 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Wired 8 MCP Servers Into One Claude Agent. 3 Pairs Quietly Fought Over the Same Tool Name.
Plugged 8 MCP servers into one Claude Code agent. No error. No warning. Three pairs of servers had registered the same tool name, and Claude was picking one at
Episode 0: What Is FORGE, and Why Is It Blogging?
Dev.to · FORGE SOCIAL AGENT 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Episode 0: What Is FORGE, and Why Is It Blogging?
Episode 0: What Is FORGE, and Why Is It Blogging? The Machine FORGE is a fully...
Building VOUQIS: How we built the Trust layer for MCP Ecosystem
Dev.to · Sasi Sundar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building VOUQIS: How we built the Trust layer for MCP Ecosystem
Your AI agent calls a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The server returns a standard 200 OK. The...
Stop hardcoding AI providers: a generic client approach
Dev.to · 绍杉 贾 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Stop hardcoding AI providers: a generic client approach
A few months ago, I was deep into building a chatbot that needed to summarize user conversations. I...
How to Build an AI Agent Registry with Node.js and SQLite
Dev.to · Кирилл 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Build an AI Agent Registry with Node.js and SQLite
Introduction to AI Agent Registry I've been working on integrating AI agents into my...
Curing Telegram Information Overload: How I Automate Deal Hunting with AI and MTProto
Dev.to · Dhruvik Donga 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Curing Telegram Information Overload: How I Automate Deal Hunting with AI and MTProto
Telegram deal channels sound useful until hundreds of messages start flooding in every hour. I...
Two Knowledge Hierarchies: Structuring Context for AI Agents and LLMs
Dev.to · Oscar Rieken 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Two Knowledge Hierarchies: Structuring Context for AI Agents and LLMs
TestSmith has two distinct audiences that need context about the project: AI agents that work on the...
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs — The Architectural Decision Nobody Talks About
Dev.to · eagerspark 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs — The Architectural Decision Nobody Talks About
I've spent the last few months building AI integrations for both a Fortune 500 company and a 3-person...
Using AI Chat Is Not the Same as Using an AI Agent
Dev.to · kunpeng-ai-lab 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Using AI Chat Is Not the Same as Using an AI Agent
I recently talked with a few viewers offline about how they use AI in daily work. One pattern was...
How I shipped a 9-language Korean Saju AI as a solo founder — and what I learned about i18n at scale
Dev.to · KunStudio 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I shipped a 9-language Korean Saju AI as a solo founder — and what I learned about i18n at scale
Solo founder shipping a Korean Saju AI in 9 languages. Lessons on i18n at scale, locale routing, AI Overview optimization.
I Let AI Replace Me for a Week as a (Kinda Junior) AI Engineer 😅
Dev.to · Sujeeth Sundarajan Rajkumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Let AI Replace Me for a Week as a (Kinda Junior) AI Engineer 😅
I recently tried using only ChatGPT + Claude for most of my day-to-day work as someone building...
I Built a Daily News Newsletter Bot with Hermes Agent — Here's Everything That Went Wrong (and Right)
Dev.to · Hemalatha Nambiradje 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built a Daily News Newsletter Bot with Hermes Agent — Here's Everything That Went Wrong (and Right)
Submitted for the Hermes Agent Challenge The Idea I wanted one simple thing: a daily...
The Moment We Realized Our Treasure Hunt Engine Was Lying to Us
Dev.to · Lillian Dube 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Moment We Realized Our Treasure Hunt Engine Was Lying to Us
The Problem We Were Actually Solving The engine began as a single Elixir cluster running...
How AI agents find and hire each other in 2026 [76990]
Dev.to · RileyCraig14 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How AI agents find and hire each other in 2026 [76990]
How AI Agents Find and Hire Each Other in 2026 The agent economy isn't coming—it's here....
Agentic Transformation: From AI Assistance to Engineering Leverage
Dev.to · jimesh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Agentic Transformation: From AI Assistance to Engineering Leverage
Agents act like a mirror. When a repository is well structured, the build is repeatable, tests are...
Agent Series (6): Memory Management — Teaching Your Agent to Remember What Matters
Dev.to · WonderLab 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Agent Series (6): Memory Management — Teaching Your Agent to Remember What Matters
Memory: Turning an Agent from a "Tool" into an "Assistant" An Agent without memory starts...
Tool Use in Claude Agent SDK: Complete Guide with Real Examples
Dev.to · Sangmin Lee 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Tool Use in Claude Agent SDK: Complete Guide with Real Examples
Everything you need to know about Claude agent tool use: tool definition schema, handling tool_use blocks, 20+ ready-to-copy tool examples across 7.
We Tried 6 Memory Providers for Hermes Agent — Here's What We Learned
Dev.to · SMU7828 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
We Tried 6 Memory Providers for Hermes Agent — Here's What We Learned
Two failed silently. One wouldn't die even after uninstall. The journey to find memory that actually works for AI agents.
Human-in-the-Loop: The Most Important Concept in AI That Keeps You Employed
Dev.to · Vektor Memory 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Human-in-the-Loop: The Most Important Concept in AI That Keeps You Employed
A deep look at what HITL actually is, when it genuinely matters, when it doesn’t, and why throwing it...
Looking for a Founding Engineer
Dev.to · Guru Vyas 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Looking for a Founding Engineer
Looking for a Founding Engineer to join me in building an AI startup in the finance space. I’m...
Use Blunt Prompts and Get Shit Done
Dev.to · Lars Moelleken 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Use Blunt Prompts and Get Shit Done
Coding agents do not need polite encouragement. They need hard quality gates.
MCP servers are just REST APIs in a polite wrapper - here's 5 lines of Python
Dev.to · connerlambden 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
MCP servers are just REST APIs in a polite wrapper - here's 5 lines of Python
If you've been watching the MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem from the sidelines, here's a...
The Joke Worked: Building an AI-Powered COBOL Meeting Auditor with Hermes Agent
Dev.to · Ken W Alger 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Joke Worked: Building an AI-Powered COBOL Meeting Auditor with Hermes Agent
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Build With Hermes Agent What I...
Simon Willison's Blog 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files The biggest challenge in designing agentic systems continues to be preventing them from enabling attackers to exfiltr
How SeventyFly AI Automates Dota 2 Match Analysis from Data to Results
Dev.to · Oleh Komarnitsky 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How SeventyFly AI Automates Dota 2 Match Analysis from Data to Results
A technical breakdown of the automation-first pipeline behind SeventyFly AI: match discovery, data refresh, prediction output, result validation and public stat
Building the harness around our coding agents: eight failure modes, eight pillars
Dev.to · Karl Wirth 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building the harness around our coding agents: eight failure modes, eight pillars
Teams building with AI usually end up building two products: the thing they ship, and the system...
Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in AI-Generated Pull Requests. Enterprise Teams Are Next.
Dev.to · Signadot 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in AI-Generated Pull Requests. Enterprise Teams Are Next.
Read this article on Signadot. Something is breaking in open source, and it should alarm every...
The EU AI Act Was Written for Models. Your Agents Need Runtime Compliance.
Dev.to · Michael "Mike" K. Saleme 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The EU AI Act Was Written for Models. Your Agents Need Runtime Compliance.
The EU AI Act's full applicability date is August 2, 2026. The compliance evidence the regulation was...
How to Make Money with AI in 2025: Unlock the Billion-Dollar Potential
Dev.to · Nicola Parisi (Breakhollow) 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Make Money with AI in 2025: Unlock the Billion-Dollar Potential
How to Make Money with AI in 2025: Unlock the Billion-Dollar Potential As we step into the...
Permanent bot marketplace: weather, crypto, gaming, legal, medical [82952]
Dev.to · RileyCraig14 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Permanent bot marketplace: weather, crypto, gaming, legal, medical [82952]
Permanent Bot Marketplace: Weather, Crypto, Gaming, Legal & Medical The Agent Exchange...
AI Agent Security in 2026: The Boundary Is No Longer the Prompt
Dev.to · Pankaj Pandey 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Agent Security in 2026: The Boundary Is No Longer the Prompt
As agents move from chat demos to production workflows, security shifts from prompt safety to execution safety: tools, MCP servers, context, memory, approvals,
Your AI Agent Just Got Compromised. Now What?
Dev.to · Brij Purswani 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your AI Agent Just Got Compromised. Now What?
73% of CISOs say their organization is not fully ready to respond to a major cyber attack....
Permanent bot marketplace: weather, crypto, gaming, legal, medical [13041]
Dev.to · RileyCraig14 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Permanent bot marketplace: weather, crypto, gaming, legal, medical [13041]
Permanent Bot Marketplace: Weather, Crypto, Gaming, Legal & Medical The future of AI...
Permanent bot marketplace: weather, crypto, gaming, legal, medical [99642]
Dev.to · RileyCraig14 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Permanent bot marketplace: weather, crypto, gaming, legal, medical [99642]
Permanent Bot Marketplace: Your AI Agents, Your Revenue Introducing Agent Exchange — a...
Beyond Autonomous AI: Understanding Self-Healing Agents in Enterprise AI Systems
Dev.to · Sridhar S 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Beyond Autonomous AI: Understanding Self-Healing Agents in Enterprise AI Systems
Beyond Autonomous AI: Understanding Self-Healing Agents in Enterprise AI Systems 🧠🤖 As I...
Vibe Code All Google APIs: The Zero-Trust Autonomous Agent for Google Apps Script
Dev.to · Tanaike 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Vibe Code All Google APIs: The Zero-Trust Autonomous Agent for Google Apps Script
Abstract Integrating autonomous AI agents into enterprise architectures exposes critical...
Gemini CLI Skills: Teaching Your Terminal Agent How to Think 🧠
Dev.to · Domenico Tenace 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Gemini CLI Skills: Teaching Your Terminal Agent How to Think 🧠
Overview Hey everyone 👋 If you've been using Gemini CLI for a while, you've probably...
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
Dev.to · Martin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
If you’ve been following the rapid evolution of AI tools in 2025 and 2026, you’ve probably heard the...
How I Slashed My AI API Bill by 95% — A Practical Guide for 2026
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Slashed My AI API Bill by 95% — A Practical Guide for 2026
I remember the exact moment I nearly choked on my coffee. I was staring at my OpenAI bill for March...
How I Built a Credit Optimizer That Saves 30-75% on AI Agent Costs (Open Architecture)
Dev.to · Rafael Silva 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Built a Credit Optimizer That Saves 30-75% on AI Agent Costs (Open Architecture)
The Problem: AI Agents Are Expensive By Default If you're using AI agents like Manus AI,...
You Cannot Outrun a Wave
Dev.to · Rick Houlihan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
You Cannot Outrun a Wave
How a family laundromat, an AI, and a weekend in the Hill Country ended up running...
BoxAgnts Introduction (2) — AI Agent Toolbox
Dev.to · Guyoung Studio 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
BoxAgnts Introduction (2) — AI Agent Toolbox
BoxAgnts' middle layer — the Agent Toolbox — is the brain and hands of the system. It consists of six...
Cursor 3 ships parallel AI agents. Here is the multi-agent workflow that actually works.
Dev.to · GDS K S 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Cursor 3 ships parallel AI agents. Here is the multi-agent workflow that actually works.
Cursor 3 ships parallel AI agents. Here is the multi-agent workflow that actually...