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How My AI Agent Hacked Its Own Permissions (And What It Taught Me)
Dev.to · Alexander Tyutin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How My AI Agent Hacked Its Own Permissions (And What It Taught Me)
Have you ever tried to build an automation that works so well it bypasses the very rules you set for...
HECE — a forensic protocol for AI agent incidents
Dev.to · ישראל חן 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
HECE — a forensic protocol for AI agent incidents
When my agent started returning nonsense from a bus, I had no way to tell whether it was hijacked, prompt-injected, or just broken. HECE is the four-step protoc
Agent memory v2 — seven rules after the poisoning
Dev.to · ישראל חן 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agent memory v2 — seven rules after the poisoning
After my agent stored its own hallucinations as facts, the comment thread reshaped the fix I was about to ship. These are the seven rules I'm rebuilding the mem
Eval-Driven Agent Development: How I Stopped Tuning Prompts on Vibes
Dev.to · Travis Martin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Eval-Driven Agent Development: How I Stopped Tuning Prompts on Vibes
Series context: This is a follow-up to How I Automate Parts of My SDLC with AI Agents. Earlier posts...
how to run your first zero-human company (without the slop)
Dev.to · lodar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
how to run your first zero-human company (without the slop)
here's the fantasy: you spin up one agent, make it the CEO, say "go run my company," and walk away....
Lineage, not logs: why autonomous agents need cryptographic provenance
Dev.to · Steve Emmerich 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Lineage, not logs: why autonomous agents need cryptographic provenance
When people talk about provenance in software systems, they often mean logs. Logs matter. They tell...
How I Tried Stopping AI Coding Agents From Ruining My Go Architecture
Dev.to · Rajavardhan Reddy Bathini 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Tried Stopping AI Coding Agents From Ruining My Go Architecture
We’ve all been there. You adopt AI coding agents (like Cursor, Copilot, or custom LLM pipelines) with...
MCP After Year One — Six Design Lessons the Industry Is Still Learning
Dev.to · Arthur 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
MCP After Year One — Six Design Lessons the Industry Is Still Learning
Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol in November 2024. A year and a half later it is the closest thing the agent ecosystem has to a standard, with Ant
Context Engineering for Enterprise AI, Part 4: Enterprise AI Design — Governance, Cost & Safety
Dev.to · kirandeepjassal-crypto 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Context Engineering for Enterprise AI, Part 4: Enterprise AI Design — Governance, Cost & Safety
Originally published on PrepStack. This is **Part 4 of 6* of* Context Engineering for Enterprise...
When your agent does something bad, can you tell which agent did it?
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When your agent does something bad, can you tell which agent did it?
Most agent actions are unattributable because they run under shared accounts and human credentials. Here's a concrete identity model that makes "which agent did
After an agent deleted a production database, I mapped what actually stops these failures
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
After an agent deleted a production database, I mapped what actually stops these failures
Autonomous agents act without a human reviewing each step. The failures share a root cause, and a small set of controls bounds most of them.
Build-time is where agent security is won or lost
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Build-time is where agent security is won or lost
The controls that actually contain an autonomous agent are the ones you freeze before it runs — least privilege, isolation, scoped credentials, and a harness th
Your AI agent is only as secure as the tools and agents it calls
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI agent is only as secure as the tools and agents it calls
An autonomous agent inherits the risk of every MCP server, tool, and sub-agent it loads — here are six practical controls for the ecosystem layer.
There's no pull request to review for an autonomous agent. So what do you review?
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
There's no pull request to review for an autonomous agent. So what do you review?
An autonomous agent isn't the code that shipped — it's a runtime configuration of container, harness, prompt, tools, and identity. Here's the part of that surfa
I built a local-first security gate to stop "Vibe Coding" from breaking production
Dev.to · Avenassh A.S 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a local-first security gate to stop "Vibe Coding" from breaking production
We all love the speed of "vibe coding." Generating an entire feature in 20 minutes with an AI agent...
Your CLAUDE.md Is Lying to Your Agent — Why a Stale Instructions File Is Worse Than None
Dev.to · Alfredo Izquierdo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your CLAUDE.md Is Lying to Your Agent — Why a Stale Instructions File Is Worse Than None
Your CLAUDE.md Is Lying to Your Agent An empty CLAUDE.md is honest. When the file isn't...
Your agent demo works. That's the trap.
Dev.to · sagar jain 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your agent demo works. That's the trap.
The gap between an agent that demos well and one that survives production is mostly compounding probability, not model quality. An engineer-founder's take on th
Getting Started with Skill Hub Manage Your AI Agent Skills Like a Pro
Dev.to · 刘泰宏 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Getting Started with Skill Hub Manage Your AI Agent Skills Like a Pro
If you use Claude Code or Codex daily, you have probably hit this problem: You install a skill from...
Nobody's Reviewing Your Robot's PRs
Dev.to · Chris 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Nobody's Reviewing Your Robot's PRs
The industry just figured out AI agents lie about their own work. In a homelab, there's nothing between the lie and your infrastructure.
An AI agent exported a patient record. Your logs can't say who told it to.
Dev.to · Alex LaGuardia 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
An AI agent exported a patient record. Your logs can't say who told it to.
You put an LLM agent into production. It runs under a service account or a shared API key, because...
How We Built an AI-Powered Career RPG Quest for the YouthCodeX Hackathon 🚀🎮
Dev.to · divinefavour1234567 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How We Built an AI-Powered Career RPG Quest for the YouthCodeX Hackathon 🚀🎮
Hey DEV community! 👋 For the YouthCodeX AI Hackathon, my partner and I wanted to build something...
Why Your AI Agents Keep Stepping on Each Others Toes
Dev.to · Elena Revicheva 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Your AI Agents Keep Stepping on Each Others Toes
Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link. The first time I watched...
Radial vs Linear: same speed, no meter, one locked price
Dev.to · Nico Acosta 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Radial vs Linear: same speed, no meter, one locked price
Linear is the best tracker of the AI era, and its agents already ride free. Radial is the one that refused the meter: one flat locked price, a first-class CLI,
Turning Waste Into Opportunity
Dev.to · AASTHA GAWAS 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Turning Waste Into Opportunity
From Waste to Best: Building an AI-Powered Circular Economy Platform In an era of rapid urbanization,...
RecursiveMAS Playground: Browser-Native Implementation of Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
Dev.to · vishalmysore 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RecursiveMAS Playground: Browser-Native Implementation of Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
Implementation of RecursiveMAS Playground, a browser-based interactive demonstration of the Recursive...
You Don't Own Your AI Agent. And Even If You Did, Would You Trust It?
Dev.to · Agent-Risk 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
You Don't Own Your AI Agent. And Even If You Did, Would You Trust It?
You Don't Own Your AI Agent. And Even If You Did, Would You Trust It? A few weeks ago, the...
If AI Replaces Juniors, Who Replaces Seniors? The Hidden Cost of Misusing AI in Tech
Dev.to · Nino Ross Rodriguez 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
If AI Replaces Juniors, Who Replaces Seniors? The Hidden Cost of Misusing AI in Tech
The hype of AI is at its peak. Scroll through LinkedIn and Medium and you will see “vibe coders”...
Teaching AI is the fastest way to sharpen your own thinking
Dev.to · Alex Tong 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Teaching AI is the fastest way to sharpen your own thinking
Two days, hundreds of engineers, a curriculum months in the making. Teaching forced me to crystallize my own thinking on what it means to work agentic
AI agents already settle millions a month - almost none of it atomically
Dev.to · Baris Sozen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI agents already settle millions a month - almost none of it atomically
Here is a number that should reframe how you think about the agent economy: in roughly one year, AI...
Nuno AI: Revolutionizing Social Media Content Creation
Dev.to · NunoAI Team 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Nuno AI: Revolutionizing Social Media Content Creation
Nuno AI is an AI-powered social media agent that transforms your ideas into complete posts —...
Neander: An Agent-First Programming Language
Dev.to · Dirk Mattig 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Neander: An Agent-First Programming Language
Last time, in Source Code as the Seam Between Systems, I closed by saying I had built a programming...
Chatbots were the introduction.
Dev.to · Claire 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Chatbots were the introduction.
AI agents might be the real platform shift. What's interesting about managed agents is that they can...
The most expensive agent failure is the one that doesn't crash
Dev.to · suraj kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The most expensive agent failure is the one that doesn't crash
Crashes are the easy case — catch the exception, move on. The failure that hurts is the agent that...
We need a company-wide AGENTS.md
Dev.to · Abe Wheeler 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We need a company-wide AGENTS.md
Introducing Alignbase: your company-wide AGENTS.md The engineers that used to write the code knew...
Rise of the Artificial General Engineer
AI Supremacy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Rise of the Artificial General Engineer
Generative AI is a superficial layer of what is yet to come.
The Unprompted: People Who Refuse to Use AI Entirely and How They're Faring
Dev.to · VelocityAI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Unprompted: People Who Refuse to Use AI Entirely and How They're Faring
You are at a dinner party. The conversation turns to AI. Everyone is talking about their favorite...
Every API Will Be Rebuilt for Agents
Dev.to · Takafumi Endo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Every API Will Be Rebuilt for Agents
MCP is winning as the connection standard — and that's exactly what exposes how agent-unready our APIs and CLIs are. Why every interface gets rebuilt for agents
AI Business Ideas for Builders Who Want Fast, Real-World Problems
Dev.to · Pradip Parmar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Business Ideas for Builders Who Want Fast, Real-World Problems
AI business ideas are most valuable when they solve a real workflow problem. For builders, that...
Git Worktrees + Claude Code: Run Parallel AI Agents on the Same Repo (2026)
Dev.to · Carlos Oliva Pascual 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Git Worktrees + Claude Code: Run Parallel AI Agents on the Same Repo (2026)
The standard Claude Code workflow is one session, one branch, one task at a time. That works fine for...
Building Real-Time Voice AI Applications with LiveKit and FastAPI
Dev.to · Joshua Fields 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building Real-Time Voice AI Applications with LiveKit and FastAPI
Real-time voice AI demos are easy to make look impressive. Production voice systems are a different...
Nonce Collision Prevention: Managing Transaction Order Across 18 Networks for AI Agents
Dev.to · Wallet Guy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Nonce Collision Prevention: Managing Transaction Order Across 18 Networks for AI Agents
Nonce Collision Prevention: How WAIaaS Manages Transaction Order for AI Agents Across 18...
Why Your AI API Throws CORS Errors (And What to Do About It)
Dev.to · swift 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Your AI API Throws CORS Errors (And What to Do About It)
Why Your AI API Throws CORS Errors (And What to Do About It) I'll be honest — I've spent more time...
My messy adventures juggling multiple AI APIs (and how I tamed them)
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
My messy adventures juggling multiple AI APIs (and how I tamed them)
I was building a feature that needed to ask the same question to three different AI models: GPT-4,...
Connecting Sophos Central to a Copilot Studio Agent with Power Automate
Dev.to · Kiell Tampubolon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Connecting Sophos Central to a Copilot Studio Agent with Power Automate
I wanted a chat agent that could pull security alerts from Sophos Central on demand. Type "get Sophos...
New Dimensions of Onchain Threats, Accelerated by AI.
Dev.to · Okoli Evans 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
New Dimensions of Onchain Threats, Accelerated by AI.
Sometime in 2024 I had a Coinbase wallet on my laptop. I had created the wallet some months back,...
I Built an Autonomous PR Review Agent That Runs 24/7 on My GitHub
Dev.to · Hong Phuc 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built an Autonomous PR Review Agent That Runs 24/7 on My GitHub
A deep dive into setting up Hermes Agent with a GitHub App to auto-review every pull request across...
Killing Latency: Wiring a Voice-Activated Cyber Triage Bot with Gemini and Deepgram
Dev.to · Teja 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Killing Latency: Wiring a Voice-Activated Cyber Triage Bot with Gemini and Deepgram
Typing out incident reports while a server is actively under attack is a massive waste of time. I...
How do you know if your AI agent is working or just burning money?
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How do you know if your AI agent is working or just burning money?
If you aren't monitoring your agentic workflows with telemetry, you are just waiting for a massive API bill to arrive. Learn how AgentOps solves this.