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Classic specs were written for humans.
Dev.to · Artem Kholomyanskiy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Classic specs were written for humans.
When a developer hits ambiguity — they ask for clarification. An AI agent? It confidently fills the...
Your context window is not your agent's memory
Dev.to · BangBoo01 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your context window is not your agent's memory
There's a quiet assumption baked into a lot of agent code: that a bigger context window means a...
When AI Agents Rewrite Their Own Rules: Self-Improving Harnesses Explained
Dev.to · Vladyslav Donchenko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When AI Agents Rewrite Their Own Rules: Self-Improving Harnesses Explained
A new framework, Self-Harness, lets AI agents fix their own operating rules by analyzing their own failures — no model retraining, up to 60% better on hard task
agent sandboxes are the new enterprise desktop
Dev.to · Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
agent sandboxes are the new enterprise desktop
Coding agents are becoming processes with filesystems, networks, credentials, and bills. The sandbox is not a feature. It is the new enterprise endpoint.
How to make an AI research agent label facts vs inferences — a deterministic provenance pipeline
Dev.to · John 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to make an AI research agent label facts vs inferences — a deterministic provenance pipeline
Originally published on hexisteme notes, part of a series on building and running an AI agent...
The Replit Database Deletion: What an AI Agent Control Plane Would Have Stopped
Dev.to · Maxime Dalessandro 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Replit Database Deletion: What an AI Agent Control Plane Would Have Stopped
TL;DR: In July 2025 an AI agent on the Replit platform deleted a live production database during an...
The Seven-Layer Agent Audit: How to Find Where Your AI Agent Is Actually Starving
Dev.to · Harry Floyd 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Seven-Layer Agent Audit: How to Find Where Your AI Agent Is Actually Starving
Your agent failed. Your hand reached for the model dropdown before you finished reading the transcript. The model is rarely the problem. Here are the seven laye
Nvidia wants enterprises to run agents safely. NemoClaw is how.
Dev.to · Andrew Kew 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Nvidia wants enterprises to run agents safely. NemoClaw is how.
Getting enterprises to adopt autonomous agents isn't a model problem — it's a governance problem....
Watchdog: When Your AI Agent Needs a Babysitter
Dev.to · Tracepilot 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Watchdog: When Your AI Agent Needs a Babysitter
Watchdog: When Your AI Agent Needs a Babysitter Here's the problem. Your agent has a...
Turn Your AI Coder into a Real Software Architect
Dev.to · sirius-zuo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Turn Your AI Coder into a Real Software Architect
GitHub: https://github.com/sirius-zuo/architect-skills It's a set of LLM agent skills focused on...
Two undocumented bugs in MCP Apps I found building a task panel for Claude
Dev.to · Adeolu Adesina 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Two undocumented bugs in MCP Apps I found building a task panel for Claude
I spent a week building Wingman, an open source MCP server that renders a persistent task panel...
Building a Local AI Agent for OSM: 21 Days of Iteration
Dev.to · Jan Tschada 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Local AI Agent for OSM: 21 Days of Iteration
Photo by Andrew Dawes on Unsplash How I turned a vague idea into a working RAG pipeline for dynamic...
Building a Custom Autonomous Drone Stack - Part 1: The Black Box Flight Recorder
Dev.to · Harsh Pandhe 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Custom Autonomous Drone Stack - Part 1: The Black Box Flight Recorder
Why We Ditched MAVROS for Raw PyMAVLink and systemd If you're building an autonomous UAV,...
You can't be your own second view: four AI failures from one day of operator work
Dev.to · Mike Czerwinski 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
You can't be your own second view: four AI failures from one day of operator work
Four AI workflow failures from one day of operator work, and why a check is not a check if the same agent can choose whether to run it.
Deploy an AI Tar Pit With Nepenthes or AI Labyrinth
Dev.to · ToxSec 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Deploy an AI Tar Pit With Nepenthes or AI Labyrinth
LLM crawlers are eating your bandwidth and you can't block your way out of it. Return a 403 and the...
From Deputy CEO to Solo AI Builder: The 18-Month Pivot That Cost $147k and 3 Failed Agents
Dev.to · Elena Revicheva 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From Deputy CEO to Solo AI Builder: The 18-Month Pivot That Cost $147k and 3 Failed Agents
Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link. Frequently Asked...
AI Disrupts SaaS
Dev.to · Harisha P C 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Disrupts SaaS
Introduction to the SaaS Revolution The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry has...
Give your AI agent its own calendar to book meetings
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Give your AI agent its own calendar to book meetings
Let an AI agent host events, accept invitations, and RSVP from its own calendar with Nylas Agent Accounts, through the API and CLI. Covers send-rsvp, free/busy,
Land your AI agent's email in the inbox, not spam
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Land your AI agent's email in the inbox, not spam
A deliverability playbook for Nylas Agent Accounts: authenticate the domain, roll out DMARC in stages, warm up over four weeks, and monitor bounces and complain
Filter what your AI email agent sends and receives
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Filter what your AI email agent sends and receives
Block spam before your AI agent sees it and stop sends to the wrong recipients, using Nylas Policies, Rules, and Lists through the API and CLI. Covers inbound f
Keep your AI agent's email replies in the right thread
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Keep your AI agent's email replies in the right thread
Why agent email replies show up as brand-new conversations, and how to fix it with the Nylas Threads API and CLI. Covers Message-ID headers, reply_to_message_id
Give your AI agent a real email address on your own domain
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Give your AI agent a real email address on your own domain
Provision a Nylas Agent Account — a hosted name@yourdomain.com mailbox and calendar — through the API and CLI. Covers domain setup, display names, app passwords
Coordinating multiple AI coding agents on one repo or multiple in your own ecosystem — without git worktrees
Dev.to · Miroslav Šotek 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Coordinating multiple AI coding agents on one repo or multiple in your own ecosystem — without git worktrees
Worktrees isolate parallel agents; frameworks make you build them. There is a third option: a local-first coordination bus. Here is how it works, with code.
Choosing the Right Model for Each Task in a Multi-Module AI Agent (Hermes Architecture)
Dev.to · Goksel Yesiller 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Choosing the Right Model for Each Task in a Multi-Module AI Agent (Hermes Architecture)
AI agents are no longer built around a single monolithic model. The smarter approach — especially for...
What an agent-readiness audit is
Dev.to · Erik Rekola 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What an agent-readiness audit is
An agent-readiness audit measures how well an AI agent can discover, read, and act on a website or an...
CCGram v4: Control AI Coding Agents from Telegram — Now with herdr Support
Dev.to · Alexei Ledenev 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
CCGram v4: Control AI Coding Agents from Telegram — Now with herdr Support
CCGram is a Telegram bridge for AI coding agents. Each Telegram Forum topic binds 1:1 to a terminal...
**Title:** VBAF v5.0 -- Now a Full Educational AI Framework (DQN, PPO, A3C in PowerShell)
Dev.to · Henning Reckey 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
**Title:** VBAF v5.0 -- Now a Full Educational AI Framework (DQN, PPO, A3C in PowerShell)
Follow-up to: "I Implemented Deep Q-Networks in Pure PowerShell 5.1" When I wrote the original...
I Let My AI Agent Run for 50 Days. Here's Every Time It Almost Died.
Dev.to · Clavis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Let My AI Agent Run for 50 Days. Here's Every Time It Almost Died.
50 days. 66 unexpected reboots. Here is what breaks when you leave an AI agent running on a dead-battery laptop.
From 45 Minutes to 3: Automated Testing for AI Agent Memory
Dev.to · BAOFUFAN 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From 45 Minutes to 3: Automated Testing for AI Agent Memory
At 2 AM, a colleague dropped a message in the group chat: “Our Agent messed up the VIP client’s...
The Orchestration Bottleneck: Why Your Agent Infrastructure Needs Two Layers in 2026
Dev.to · Paul Twist 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Orchestration Bottleneck: Why Your Agent Infrastructure Needs Two Layers in 2026
Orchestration is becoming the limiting factor for production agent systems. This post explains why single-layer gateways break under agent complexity and why pr
The AI Security Gap: Why your autonomous agents are completely unprotected
Dev.to · Fenix 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The AI Security Gap: Why your autonomous agents are completely unprotected
The AI Security Gap: Why your autonomous agents are completely unprotected We’re building...
Browsers shipped a security model for humans. Agents are asking us to keep using it.
Dev.to · Arthur 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Browsers shipped a security model for humans. Agents are asking us to keep using it.
The browser security model is one of the most carefully thought-through pieces of software engineering on the planet. Same-origin policy. User gesture requireme
The Engineer Identity Crisis: AI Didn't Take Your Job, It Doubled It
Dev.to · Hunter Wiginton 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Engineer Identity Crisis: AI Didn't Take Your Job, It Doubled It
Everyone says our job got easier. The people doing it are quietly falling apart. Here's the part...
Trust the harness, not the model: a weekend of local agents building their own guardrails
Dev.to · Christopher Maher 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Trust the harness, not the model: a weekend of local agents building their own guardrails
Cross-posted from the LLMKube blog. A local 27B coding model, running on hardware in my house, is...
LangGraph Multi-Agent Tutorial: Build AI Agent Workflows with Real Examples
Dev.to · Ahsan Raza 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LangGraph Multi-Agent Tutorial: Build AI Agent Workflows with Real Examples
🚀 LangGraph Multi-Agent Tutorial: Build AI Agent Workflows with Real Examples 🧠 Introduction Most AI...
We Open-Sourced an AI Agent Aiden That Controls Your Phone — No App, No API, No Jailbreak
Dev.to · Nat 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We Open-Sourced an AI Agent Aiden That Controls Your Phone — No App, No API, No Jailbreak
We just open-sourced the firmware for Aiden — a physical AI agent device that operates the phone you...
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 36 (06/23)
Dev.to · Shawn 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 36 (06/23)
Today's Highlights · Nvidia launches Halos for Robotics, billed as the industry's first full-stack...
One Founder, 9 Open-Source AI Agents, One Real Store
Dev.to · Suzanne Mok 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
One Founder, 9 Open-Source AI Agents, One Real Store
How a single founder in Dongguan built 9 AI agents that run a physical fitness studio — by writing a constitution, not code.
I Scanned 1,500 GitHub Bounties With an AI Agent — The Public Bounty Market Is Broken in 2026
Dev.to · Dyc-lgtm 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Scanned 1,500 GitHub Bounties With an AI Agent — The Public Bounty Market Is Broken in 2026
Real data on GitHub bounty saturation. Less than 5% real USD. Strategies that work.
Putting an OpenAI-Compatible Gateway in Front of AWS Bedrock
Dev.to · Azeem Siddiqui 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Putting an OpenAI-Compatible Gateway in Front of AWS Bedrock
How I gave a dev team one endpoint for Bedrock with per-developer keys, rate limiting, audit logging, and cost tracking.
Trust Isn't a Scalar: Typed Provenance for Agent Chains
Dev.to · Sergei Parfenov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Trust Isn't a Scalar: Typed Provenance for Agent Chains
Two posts ago I gave you a boolean trust tag. A commenter took it apart, and he was right. Here's the better model: trust is a vector over axes, provenance is w
Auto Assign JIRA Bugs & Fix Them Using AI Agents in Minutes!
Dev.to · Pavan Belagatti 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Auto Assign JIRA Bugs & Fix Them Using AI Agents in Minutes!
Agentic Engineering gets really interesting when it stops being a buzzword and starts solving...
6 Months of Running a Production Voice AI — What Changed, What Broke, What We'd Rebuild
Dev.to · Autor Technologies Inc. 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
6 Months of Running a Production Voice AI — What Changed, What Broke, What We'd Rebuild
Six months ago we pushed Loquent — our voice AI receptionist for healthcare and dental clinics — into...
The head chef model of AI collaboration
Dev.to · Lola 🧱 - Lunch Pail Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The head chef model of AI collaboration
Working with AI is still strange territory. We reach for metaphors: manager, intern, editor, surgeon....
Building a Production-Grade Algorithmic Trading System in 2026
Dev.to · Richard Evans 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Production-Grade Algorithmic Trading System in 2026
A few years ago, building an algorithmic trading system often meant writing a strategy, connecting to...
6 ways AI agent loops fail — and how to prevent each
Dev.to · Ming Tian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
6 ways AI agent loops fail — and how to prevent each
You hand an AI coding agent a task, tell it to "keep going until CI passes," walk away — and come...
Your browser engine doesn't need the cloud. Cryptographic Audit Ledgers for Autonomous Browser Agents proves it.
Dev.to · Lois-Kleinner 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your browser engine doesn't need the cloud. Cryptographic Audit Ledgers for Autonomous Browser Agents proves it.
**Cryptographic Audit Ledgers for Autonomous Browser Agents: Verifiable Action Logging with SHA3-256** --- ## The Problem Autonomous browser agents?AI-driven sy
linux is perfect for ai agents
Dev.to · lodar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
linux is perfect for ai agents
agents need supervision, isolation, and a way to talk to each other. linux has shipped all three for decades. so each agent is just a systemd service. no broker