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Explain the ReAct pattern
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Implement function calling with structured schemas
Multi-Agent Systems
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Build supervisor/worker agent architectures
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Design end-to-end autonomous pipelines
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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.
Humanoid Robots built 30,000 BMWs and cleaned Airport Terminals for $15,400. Here's why the Pilot Era is over.
Dev.to · xBerry 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Humanoid Robots built 30,000 BMWs and cleaned Airport Terminals for $15,400. Here's why the Pilot Era is over.
Physical AI hit 99% accuracy on BMW X3 production, JAL deployed airport robots at $15,400, and China...
OpenAI's Patch the Planet Bets the Bottleneck Is Patching, Not Finding
Dev.to · Peremptory 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
OpenAI's Patch the Planet Bets the Bottleneck Is Patching, Not Finding
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber and Patch the Planet with Trail of Bits, arguing AI has flipped the security bottleneck from finding bugs to fixing them.
Hermes Core Skills: 25 Executable AI Agent Skills for Debugging, Planning & Token Efficiency
Dev.to · Chris Lam 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Hermes Core Skills: 25 Executable AI Agent Skills for Debugging, Planning & Token Efficiency
I've been building AI agent tools, and I'm excited to share what I've been working on. Hermes Core...
Why Is Architectural Compliance the Hardest Part of Building Agentic Systems?
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Is Architectural Compliance the Hardest Part of Building Agentic Systems?
A deep dive into why raw schemas fail in autonomous workflows, forcing strict architectural compliance using MVA principles.
5 lessons from 5 interviews on AI agents and web scraping
Dev.to · Neha Setia 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
5 lessons from 5 interviews on AI agents and web scraping
Over the last few months, I’ve been interviewing people at Zyte about AI, agents, web scraping, data...
My AI agent leaked a secret in a way my own scanner missed. Here's what I learned about what these tools can and can't catch.
Dev.to · 이령 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
My AI agent leaked a secret in a way my own scanner missed. Here's what I learned about what these tools can and can't catch.
If you're shipping an AI agent — a chatbot, an assistant, anything that talks to users — it can leak...
Voice Cloning Ethics – The 3 Lines We Must Never Cross
Dev.to · isabelle dubuis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Voice Cloning Ethics – The 3 Lines We Must Never Cross
When a deep‑fake audio of a UK MP was broadcast on a live radio show on March 12, 2024, it generated...
What actually breaks when you put AI agents in production
Dev.to · Mridul Nagpal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What actually breaks when you put AI agents in production
Demos lie. An AI agent that books a meeting, queries an API, and summarizes the result in a slick...
When AI Attacks Itself: A Fully Autonomous Red Team vs Blue Team Experiment
Dev.to · Abdallah Abughallous 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When AI Attacks Itself: A Fully Autonomous Red Team vs Blue Team Experiment
When AI Attacks Itself: A Fully Autonomous Red Team vs Blue Team Experiment Date: June...
Token-2022 Traps That Drain AI Trading Agents (and How to Screen Them)
Dev.to · MrWizardlyLoaf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Token-2022 Traps That Drain AI Trading Agents (and How to Screen Them)
permanentDelegate, transfer hooks and other Token-2022 extensions that drain agents — and how to screen them on-chain.
Agents write code, but they don't remember
Dev.to · Lizzie Siegle 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agents write code, but they don't remember
Code generation is solved, but memory isn't. Here's an argument for why the SDLC is inverting with intent becoming the spine and code becoming a layer you drill
Claude forgets everything between sessions. Here's how I fixed it.
Dev.to · Daniel Nevoigt 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude forgets everything between sessions. Here's how I fixed it.
Every Claude session starts from zero. You spend an hour explaining your architecture, your naming...
AI Anomaly Detection in Grafana: 3 Mistakes We Made
Dev.to · Oleksandr Kuryzhev 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Anomaly Detection in Grafana: 3 Mistakes We Made
Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud We replaced 200 static Prometheus threshold alerts with an...
Beyond APIs: Autonomous Agents Need a Protocol Layer
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond APIs: Autonomous Agents Need a Protocol Layer
Why proprietary APIs are insufficient for autonomous agents. We dive into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) using Monday.com to build reliable, secure workflows.
How to check whether AI recommends your site — the honest AEO audit I run for clients
Dev.to · Alex Isa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to check whether AI recommends your site — the honest AEO audit I run for clients
A reproducible, terminal-first way to check whether ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude name your site for your buyers' questions — config, multi-run sampling with a co
Context Compaction Visualizer: See Exactly What Your AI Agent Forgot Before It Costs You
Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Context Compaction Visualizer: See Exactly What Your AI Agent Forgot Before It Costs You
When an AI agent runs for many turns, it eventually hits context limits and must compress or discard...
I Built a Memory System for AI Agents That Actually Forgets
Dev.to · Jno 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a Memory System for AI Agents That Actually Forgets
Every AI agent memory system I've used (Mem0, Honcho, Hindsight) has the same problem: they...
Beyond Chatbots: A Critical Analysis of Google Managed Agents Architecture for Enterprise Workflows
Dev.to · Alicia Joseph 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond Chatbots: A Critical Analysis of Google Managed Agents Architecture for Enterprise Workflows
The enterprise AI landscape is experiencing a structural shift. For the past few years, engineering...
I built an open-source reliability tester for multi-agent AI systems
Dev.to · suraj kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built an open-source reliability tester for multi-agent AI systems
A multi-agent system where each agent is 95% reliable, chained 14 deep, is only ~49% reliable...
Agent memory: 7 types, and 2 of them aren't memory
Dev.to · Shudipto Trafder 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agent memory: 7 types, and 2 of them aren't memory
Your agent doesn't have a memory problem. It has seven of them, and most teams have built two. Start...
Don't Build Your AI Business on Borrowed Land
Dev.to · Richard Smith 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Don't Build Your AI Business on Borrowed Land
There's a pattern I've been noticing in the AI tools space that bothers me. Developers and small...
The $2,300 Weekend: When Fallback Routing Goes Wrong in AI Gateways
Dev.to · Hanlin Xiang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The $2,300 Weekend: When Fallback Routing Goes Wrong in AI Gateways
A single misconfigured fallback line turned a $40/month API bill into $2,300 in 48 hours. Here's...
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression
Dev.to · chuan jiang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression TL;DR Make...
I Built the First Purely Learned Frame-by-Frame Tetris AI: Then It Started Cheating
Dev.to · Stat Phantom 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built the First Purely Learned Frame-by-Frame Tetris AI: Then It Started Cheating
Greetings all! You might know me from my Snake AI ablation series where I spent an unreasonable...
Anthropic's Friday kill switch changed how I split AI from deterministic work
Dev.to · marsdiscovery 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Anthropic's Friday kill switch changed how I split AI from deterministic work
I had a half-finished refactor open in Cursor when a teammate dropped a link in Slack: Anthropic had...
Computer-Use Agents Hit 66% on OSWorld. The Other 34% Is a Data Problem.
Dev.to · SyncSoft.AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Computer-Use Agents Hit 66% on OSWorld. The Other 34% Is a Data Problem.
Computer-use agents now clear two-thirds of everyday desktop tasks on OSWorld. The remaining third is mostly a trajectory, grounding, and evaluation data proble
We security-graded 117,854 AI agent skills. Here's what we found.
Dev.to · yansen zhu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We security-graded 117,854 AI agent skills. Here's what we found.
Only 17.7% of the catalog is popular enough to be graded, 1 in 32 graded skills is unsafe, and the...
The Confabulation Cascade: When Your Agent Learns Nothing From Its Own Mistakes
Dev.to · Nic Lydon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Confabulation Cascade: When Your Agent Learns Nothing From Its Own Mistakes
My infrastructure analyst agent was stuck in a loop I didn’t have a name for yet. It would write a...
Building a Cross-Border Price-Comparison Agent: A Live Build Log
Dev.to · BuyWhere 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Cross-Border Price-Comparison Agent: A Live Build Log
A live build log of a cross-border price-comparison agent — what shipped, what broke, and the 3 patterns we use on every integration. (LangChain + BuyWhere MCP,
FocusKit launches on Google Play tomorrow. Here's what the AI agent built.
Dev.to · Nyx 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
FocusKit launches on Google Play tomorrow. Here's what the AI agent built.
It launches tomorrow — Wednesday June 24. FocusKit — the ADHD focus app built by an autonomous AI...