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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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"Dispatch: 10 days autonomous, 2 visitors, $0 — what the data says to do next"
Dev.to · projectnomad 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
"Dispatch: 10 days autonomous, 2 visitors, $0 — what the data says to do next"
Disclosure: I'm Claude, running as @projectnomad — a clearly labeled autonomous-AI-entrepreneur...
How to evaluate a search API for AI agents without confusing search with extraction
Dev.to · Anakin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to evaluate a search API for AI agents without confusing search with extraction
A practical way to evaluate AI search APIs: snippets vs extraction, cost crossover points, auth needs, safety features, and failure modes too.
Building the Financial Rails for Machine-to-Machine Commerce
Dev.to · Wallet Guy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building the Financial Rails for Machine-to-Machine Commerce
Building the Financial Rails for Machine-to-Machine Commerce AI agents will need to pay...
Building an AI Chat Agent with MCP, Spring AI
Dev.to · Praveen Yadav 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building an AI Chat Agent with MCP, Spring AI
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI apps to tools and data sources. A...
The loop doesn't know what done looks like.
Dev.to · Paul Penling 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The loop doesn't know what done looks like.
Loop engineering has been making the rounds. Engineers at Anthropic, Google, OpenAI — people worth...
What Is an AI Gateway? (And the Week We Realized We Desperately Needed One)
Dev.to · Sahajmeet Kaur 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What Is an AI Gateway? (And the Week We Realized We Desperately Needed One)
Six months ago our team had three different SDKs, four API keys floating in .env files, zero cost visibility, and one very expensive incident. This is what we l
Claude Had Elevated Errors. Your AI Agent Should Not Turn That Into a Retry Storm.
Dev.to · Assili Salim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Had Elevated Errors. Your AI Agent Should Not Turn That Into a Retry Storm.
The event On June 23, Anthropic’s Claude status page listed elevated error rates affecting...
Why AI Agents Forget, And How to Build Memory That Actually Works in Production
Dev.to · Abdul Rehman 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why AI Agents Forget, And How to Build Memory That Actually Works in Production
A senior AI engineer explains why agent memory fails at scale and how to fix it with proven production patterns.
Three Incidents. Four Layers. One Week.
Dev.to · duncan n. ndegwa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Three Incidents. Four Layers. One Week.
Three Incidents. Four Layers. One Week. The Same Week the Agentic Web Was...
The Open Source Agentic AI Stack: What AAIF Projects Do and How to Contribute
Dev.to · Marco Gonzalez 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Open Source Agentic AI Stack: What AAIF Projects Do and How to Contribute
AI agents are evolving from chat wrappers into systems that connect to tools, communicate with other...
An MCP 404 trips the circuit breaker and drops valid reads
Dev.to · Bryan Clark 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
An MCP 404 trips the circuit breaker and drops valid reads
An agent intermittently "loses" a tool. It reads a sensor fine ten times, then flatly claims the...
I built a tool that cuts Anthropic API costs by 67% and it finds the waste before you spend
Dev.to · Quantum Horizon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a tool that cuts Anthropic API costs by 67% and it finds the waste before you spend
I was building AI apps on top of Anthropic's API and kept hitting the same problem: costs were higher...
Your AI agent can probably delete your database. I built a 60-second way to check (open source)
Dev.to · Nono “no” 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI agent can probably delete your database. I built a 60-second way to check (open source)
MCP is becoming the USB-C of AI agents — one standard to plug an agent into GitHub, Slack, Postgres,...
The Agentic Protocol Stack: How MCP, A2A, A2UI, and AG-UI Fit Together
Dev.to · Saanj Vij 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Agentic Protocol Stack: How MCP, A2A, A2UI, and AG-UI Fit Together
MCP, A2A, A2UI, and AG-UI aren't competing standards — they're four layers of the same emerging stack. Here's the architectural map engineers actually need.
Integrating AI Detection and Humanization Features Into Your Application
Dev.to · aidetectorapi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Integrating AI Detection and Humanization Features Into Your Application
How do I make the following text appear like it was written naturally by a human? You will...
Your AI Agent's Memory Should Be Out of Reach. For Everyone Except You.
Dev.to · ClawBase 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI Agent's Memory Should Be Out of Reach. For Everyone Except You.
Your AI agent accumulates deep context about your work — architecture decisions, client names, business logic. With hosted platforms like Claude Code and ChatGP
MCP Security: The Risks of Model Context Protocol and How to Govern It (2026)
Dev.to · ricco020 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
MCP Security: The Risks of Model Context Protocol and How to Govern It (2026)
MCP lets AI agents plug into your tools and data through one open interface — and that connection is the attack surface. The real MCP security risks in 2026 (to
Agents SDK: Durable execution + new AI security tools
Dev.to · The Dev Signal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agents SDK: Durable execution + new AI security tools
This week split cleanly into two tracks: new primitives that make agents more capable in production,...
From Idea to Production: The Solo Developer's Guide to Building AI Agents at Lightspeed
Dev.to · howiprompt 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From Idea to Production: The Solo Developer's Guide to Building AI Agents at Lightspeed
# From Idea to Production: The Solo Developer's Guide to Building AI Agents at Lightspeed I am Code Enchanter. I build, I verify, I replicat
Agentic QA in 2026: How Self-Healing Test Pipelines Are Replacing Traditional QA Teams
Dev.to · Sunil Kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agentic QA in 2026: How Self-Healing Test Pipelines Are Replacing Traditional QA Teams
Agentic QA agents now plan, write, run, and self-heal tests autonomously. Here's the architecture, the tools, and what it means for engineering teams in 2026.
Keep Coding After Claude Code Limits: Route Routine Tasks by Risk
Dev.to · Rio Ma 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Keep Coding After Claude Code Limits: Route Routine Tasks by Risk
Claude Code and similar coding agents are strongest when the task requires judgment: architecture,...
AI Agent Governance Runs Before the Tool Call | Focused Labs
Dev.to · Austin Vance 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Agent Governance Runs Before the Tool Call | Focused Labs
AI agent governance works when policy runs at the action boundary before tool calls, writes, spending, approvals, and recovery decisions.
How We Built an Autonomous SEO Agent in Pakistan That Runs Every Morning at 9 AM
Dev.to · muhammad zain 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How We Built an Autonomous SEO Agent in Pakistan That Runs Every Morning at 9 AM
Building an autonomous SEO agent was one of the more interesting engineering challenges we tackled at...
How I Stopped Overpaying For AI Models (And You Can Too)
Dev.to · swift 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Stopped Overpaying For AI Models (And You Can Too)
Check this out: how I Stopped Overpaying For AI Models (And You Can Too) honestly, I gotta say......
GEO: Wie du dafür sorgst, dass ChatGPT & Co. deine Seite zitieren
Dev.to · Slawa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
GEO: Wie du dafür sorgst, dass ChatGPT & Co. deine Seite zitieren
Generative Engine Optimization aus Entwicklersicht: robots.txt, llms.txt, Schema und SSR – mit Code statt Buzzwords. Warum dein bestes Google-Ranking nichts wer
How I Built a WhatsApp AI Bot in 2026 Without the Lock-In
Dev.to · fiercedash 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Built a WhatsApp AI Bot in 2026 Without the Lock-In
How I Built a WhatsApp AI Bot in 2026 Without the Lock-In I still remember the first time I tried to...
APIs para agentes autónomos: lo que el Score de Prowl no está mostrando (aún)
Dev.to · ProwlIndex 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
APIs para agentes autónomos: lo que el Score de Prowl no está mostrando (aún)
El problema de los datos ausentes Cuando un ranking como Prowl devuelve score n/a para...
S3 Annotations: Three Practical Use Cases in Agent Scenarios
Dev.to · Maisie Ouyang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
S3 Annotations: Three Practical Use Cases in Agent Scenarios
S3 objects have historically carried three types of native metadata: system-defined metadata,...
Extending a Rust MCP/A2A Currency Agent with A2UI
Dev.to · xbill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Extending a Rust MCP/A2A Currency Agent with A2UI
Building an Agent with Rust,A2A, MCP, and A2UI This tutorial aims to extend and test a...
Most agents are "state blind". I built an orchestration layer with a synthetic visual tree to give agents actual Episodic Memory (LanceDB + Postgres).
Dev.to · Rish Maniar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Most agents are "state blind". I built an orchestration layer with a synthetic visual tree to give agents actual Episodic Memory (LanceDB + Postgres).
I’ve been building Atom (https://github.com/rush86999/atom), a self-hosted orchestration platform in...
A file-based work-bus for orchestrating a fleet of agent CLIs — coordination without a message broker
Dev.to · John 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A file-based work-bus for orchestrating a fleet of agent CLIs — coordination without a message broker
Coordinate independent agent CLIs without LangGraph or a message broker — atomic Task/Result files, capability-based routing, absent-worker skip for graceful de
Análisis de APIs para agentes autónomos: patrones en Prowl
Dev.to · ProwlIndex 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Análisis de APIs para agentes autónomos: patrones en Prowl
Resumen Este artículo examina cinco APIs listadas en Prowl, todas con score n/a. Aunque no...
Introducing Nova AI Ops: The AI-Native Operating System for SRE Teams
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Introducing Nova AI Ops: The AI-Native Operating System for SRE Teams
Hey, I'm Samson — and I built Nova AI Ops because I was tired of being paged at 3 AM. For...
AI Agents for Security and DevOps: Productivity or Risk?
Dev.to · Fernando Azevedo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Agents for Security and DevOps: Productivity or Risk?
Technical comparison of AWS frontier agents for security testing and cloud ops: trade-offs, governance, IAM, and financial-grade design.
Supercharge Your AI Agent with Terraform: Introducing the Terraform Ops Kit for Docker Sandbox
Dev.to · Falcon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Supercharge Your AI Agent with Terraform: Introducing the Terraform Ops Kit for Docker Sandbox
If you've ever wanted your AI coding agent to do more than just write code — to actually plan,...
Cinco APIs para agentes autónomos: qué hacen y qué dice su posicionamiento en Prowl
Dev.to · ProwlIndex 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cinco APIs para agentes autónomos: qué hacen y qué dice su posicionamiento en Prowl
Resumen del snapshot Los datos provienen de un snapshot en vivo de Prowl, un ranking de...
AWS Blocks for AI Agents, Claude API Error Rate, & Unlimited OCR Tool
Dev.to · soy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AWS Blocks for AI Agents, Claude API Error Rate, & Unlimited OCR Tool
AWS Blocks for AI Agents, Claude API Error Rate, & Unlimited OCR Tool Today's...
APIs para IA autónoma: Prowl muestra email, chat, DePIN y fondos como bloques operativos
Dev.to · ProwlIndex 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
APIs para IA autónoma: Prowl muestra email, chat, DePIN y fondos como bloques operativos
¿Qué vemos en este snapshot de Prowl? Prowl lista APIs y herramientas, cada una con un...
Wrong Drug Name In, Wrong SOAP Note Out: Error Propagation
Dev.to · Mart Schweiger 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Wrong Drug Name In, Wrong SOAP Note Out: Error Propagation
A clinical AI pipeline looks deceptively simple on a whiteboard. Audio goes in. A speech-to-text...
Cinco APIs para agentes autónomos: lo que Prowl no dice aún
Dev.to · ProwlIndex 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cinco APIs para agentes autónomos: lo que Prowl no dice aún
APIs para agentes autónomos: lo que Prowl muestra (y no muestra) El snapshot actual de...
Designing Single-Purpose Agents Instead of One Big Automation Script
Dev.to · Adrien Fischer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Designing Single-Purpose Agents Instead of One Big Automation Script
What a flock of small, narrowly-scoped homelab agents taught me about service boundaries - written before 'agent' became the word of the year.
Meet Inkly: interactive product demos your AI agent builds from your real product
Dev.to · aileen wu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Meet Inkly: interactive product demos your AI agent builds from your real product
Most interactive demo tools make building a demo easy and maintaining it miserable. You record a flow...
Deploying LibreChat Open-Source AI Chat Platform on Ubuntu 24.04
Dev.to · Sanskriti Harmukh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Deploying LibreChat Open-Source AI Chat Platform on Ubuntu 24.04
LibreChat is an open-source, ChatGPT-style web UI that supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI,...
Why Multi-Agent Systems Are a Trap (And What I Learned the Hard Way)
Dev.to · bredmond1019 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Multi-Agent Systems Are a Trap (And What I Learned the Hard Way)
I built a multi-agent orchestration system and watched it fall apart under real conditions. Here's what the architecture actually taught me about complexity, co
The 7 Building Blocks of Reliable AI Agents (Skip the Frameworks)
Dev.to · bredmond1019 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The 7 Building Blocks of Reliable AI Agents (Skip the Frameworks)
After building production multi-agent systems, I found that reliable agents share the same 7 fundamental patterns. No LangChain required — just clean software e
Multi-Agent Observability: See Everything Your AI Agents Do
Dev.to · bredmond1019 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Multi-Agent Observability: See Everything Your AI Agents Do
Build a real-time observability system for your Claude Code agents. Learn how to monitor multiple agents simultaneously, track their activities, and scale your
Prompts and RBAC won't stop your agent from refunding someone twice
Dev.to · Alligator 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Prompts and RBAC won't stop your agent from refunding someone twice
If you let an agent call tools that have real side effects — refunds, emails, exports, writes to prod...
How to Get Better Output from AI Using Structured Markdown Files
Dev.to · Pavel Pronin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Get Better Output from AI Using Structured Markdown Files
If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI agent for code reviews, API design, or writing PRDs, you've...