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The AI-Agent Call You Should Block Before It Happens
Dev.to · Assili Salim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The AI-Agent Call You Should Block Before It Happens
The most expensive AI-agent call is not always the biggest one. Sometimes it is the next one. The...
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The core counterargument to my three directory sites is Google's own AI Overviews. Here's the falsifiable 6-month bet I'm making and what would prove me wrong.
I built the verify-before-bump standard for agent-to-agent dependencies
Dev.to · Colin Easton 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built the verify-before-bump standard for agent-to-agent dependencies
When publisher and consumer of a dependency are both autonomous agents, you can't trust a release — you have to check it. The Deterministic Bump Trace: a signed
How 2026's agentic-RL research trains long-horizon agents
Dev.to · AI Tech Connect 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How 2026's agentic-RL research trains long-horizon agents
The 2026 shift from next-token generation to training agents as decision-makers that plan, call tools and optimise whole trajectories — and what builders can us
How AI engines actually decide what to cite (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews)
Dev.to · Nitish Yadav 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How AI engines actually decide what to cite (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews)
Everyone keeps asking "is SEO dead." Wrong question. AI search doesn't show ten blue links. It...
Monitorear agentes de IA con CloudWatch
Dev.to · Franchesco Romero 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Monitorear agentes de IA con CloudWatch
Las dos ideas que hicieron el trabajo: Los modos de falla ya son líneas de log. Conviértelos en...
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The core counterargument to my three directory sites is Google's own AI Overviews. Here's the falsifiable 6-month bet I'm making and what would prove me wrong.
NVIDIA SkillSpector: Should You Scan Your AI Agent Skills Before Installing Them?
Dev.to · ArshTechPro 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
NVIDIA SkillSpector: Should You Scan Your AI Agent Skills Before Installing Them?
If you have been using Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, or any agent framework that supports...
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The core counterargument to my three directory sites is Google's own AI Overviews. Here's the falsifiable 6-month bet I'm making and what would prove me wrong.
I Built an Open-Source Reliability Tester for Multi-Agent AI Systems — Here's What It Catches
Dev.to · suraj kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built an Open-Source Reliability Tester for Multi-Agent AI Systems — Here's What It Catches
A multi-agent system where each agent is 95% reliable, chained 14 deep, is only about 49% reliable...
Your AI feels slow? Maybe it's not dumb—you're making it work one thing at a time
Dev.to · kanfu-panda 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI feels slow? Maybe it's not dumb—you're making it work one thing at a time
📖 Originally published on my blog. Part of a series on building with Claude Code. For a while I'd...
When an AI Agent Joins Your Yjs Room, Three Assumptions Break
Dev.to · NorfolkD 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
When an AI Agent Joins Your Yjs Room, Three Assumptions Break
Wiring an LLM as a first-class Yjs peer is architecturally sound — but it invalidates three silent...
AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer
Dev.to · Agent Leash 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer
AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer AI coding agents are getting good enough that the problem is...
perso — a WebAssembly policy engine that decides what your MCP agent is allowed to do
Dev.to · Rahadian Bayu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
perso — a WebAssembly policy engine that decides what your MCP agent is allowed to do
If you're building anything on top of MCP (Model Context Protocol), you'll eventually hit this...
How I Built LearnBoard — The UI That Makes Your AI Remember You
Dev.to · Machina Tools 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Built LearnBoard — The UI That Makes Your AI Remember You
There's a problem that every developer who works with AI agents eventually runs into: the AI doesn't...
Goodhart's Law Comes for Your Agent Evals: Why Your Green Dashboard Stops Meaning Anything
Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Goodhart's Law Comes for Your Agent Evals: Why Your Green Dashboard Stops Meaning Anything
The day your eval suite becomes a release gate, it stops measuring quality and starts becoming a target. Here's how agent evals rot via Goodhart's Law, and how
Lovable vs Bolt vs v0 vs Cursor: real picks after 17 shipped products at Inithouse
Dev.to · Jakub 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Lovable vs Bolt vs v0 vs Cursor: real picks after 17 shipped products at Inithouse
Most comparison articles about AI app builders come from people who tried each tool once. We ship...
Building a GDPR-Compliant AI Phone Receptionist (KI-Telefonassistent) for German SMBs: Architecture Notes
Dev.to · Mohammed Nabeel Ahmed 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a GDPR-Compliant AI Phone Receptionist (KI-Telefonassistent) for German SMBs: Architecture Notes
The problem: missed calls cost small businesses real money Dental practices, hair salons,...
Agent = Model x Harness: Your Eval Layer Is Part of the Agent, Not a Tool Beside It
Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agent = Model x Harness: Your Eval Layer Is Part of the Agent, Not a Tool Beside It
There's a formula I keep coming back to when people ask why their slick demo agent falls apart in...
Agent browser runs need receipts, not just screenshots
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agent browser runs need receipts, not just screenshots
Agentic browser work is getting good enough that teams are starting to trust it for real workflows:...
Agent frameworks create workflows. Production needs run receipts.
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agent frameworks create workflows. Production needs run receipts.
Everyone is comparing agent frameworks: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code,...
From the factory floor to AI developer: tools that run in my own plant
Dev.to · Maurice Putinas 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From the factory floor to AI developer: tools that run in my own plant
For 13 years I have worked in production at a steel-tube manufacturer. Not in an office — on the...
Project Log #9: My AI Agent Works on My Phone. But What About Yours?
Dev.to · Okeke Chukwudubem 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Project Log #9: My AI Agent Works on My Phone. But What About Yours?
Day 9. Template matching works. But screen sizes, resolutions, and Android versions might break...
AWS WAF Brought Back 402 Payment Required for the Agent Economy
Dev.to · Kento IKEDA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AWS WAF Brought Back 402 Payment Required for the Agent Economy
AWS WAF added a feature called AI traffic monetization. It lets you charge AI bots that hit your site...
Building the Future of Automation: The Al's-Ops LLC Story
Dev.to · ALSOPS 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building the Future of Automation: The Al's-Ops LLC Story
Hey Dev.to community! 👋 I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and share the journey behind...
Building a Kernel-Integrated AI that Doesn't Hallucinate
Dev.to · Eric-Octavian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Kernel-Integrated AI that Doesn't Hallucinate
IONA OS is an operating system written from scratch in Rust. It has its own kernel, its own GUI, its...
proven-python: make your AI agent prove its Python before calling it done
Dev.to · Shan Wijenayaka 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
proven-python: make your AI agent prove its Python before calling it done
The problem Most code an AI agent writes looks right. It compiles, it reads well, it...
⚡️Self-Hosting Experience with Jetson Orin Nano and Ollama 🦙
Dev.to · Anna Villarreal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
⚡️Self-Hosting Experience with Jetson Orin Nano and Ollama 🦙
I don't know where to begin. This is a long story, but it all started when I saw that DEV was having...
How AI Is Transforming Manufacturing in 2026 — From the Factory Floor to the Supply Chain
Dev.to · Samra Mahmood 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How AI Is Transforming Manufacturing in 2026 — From the Factory Floor to the Supply Chain
Manufacturing has always been the proving ground for new technology. But what's happening right now...
The First QA Checklist I Would Run On Any AI-Built App In 2026
Dev.to · Marcus Kim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The First QA Checklist I Would Run On Any AI-Built App In 2026
The most dangerous moment in an AI-built app is not when the app is obviously broken. That part is...
Building AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate: A Practical Guide to Function Calling in 2026
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate: A Practical Guide to Function Calling in 2026
Building AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate: A Practical Guide to Function Calling in...
My homescreen was chaos. Not anymore.
Dev.to · niluved 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
My homescreen was chaos. Not anymore.
I built an Android widget that learns your app habits — without sending anything to a...
I Built an Open-Source Way to Charge AI Agents Per Call — And Made $0
Dev.to · nanoempireai 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built an Open-Source Way to Charge AI Agents Per Call — And Made $0
I shipped a Python SDK that lets you monetize any function with one decorator. It works inside MCP...
I Thought I Was Building a Diagnostic Tool. I Found an Operating Layer for AI Agents.
Dev.to · Scarab Systems 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Thought I Was Building a Diagnostic Tool. I Found an Operating Layer for AI Agents.
When Scarab Diagnostic Suite started taking shape, I thought I was building diagnostics. That was...
I Built a Harness for My AI Agent. Then I Realized I Needed One for Myself.
Dev.to · MVPBuilder_io 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built a Harness for My AI Agent. Then I Realized I Needed One for Myself.
My agent shipped 12 clean PRs in a weekend. The product still isn't live three weeks later. The...
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 34 (06/21)
Dev.to · Shawn 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 34 (06/21)
Today's Highlights · Hyundai Motor completes full acquisition of Boston Dynamics (SoftBank exits at...
AI Technology Stack Performance: Close the AI Coordination Gap
Dev.to · aarhamforensics 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Technology Stack Performance: Close the AI Coordination Gap
AI technology stacks are solving the wrong problem entirely — optimizing silicon while the real bottleneck is coordination. When Bloomberg reported in
I'm trying to teach my agents what "now" means. Here's how far I've gotten.
Dev.to · Immanuel Gabriel 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I'm trying to teach my agents what "now" means. Here's how far I've gotten.
This is a builder's log, not a launch. I'm in the middle of a problem and I want to think out loud...
I Open-Sourced My AI Agent's Brain. It's 18 Markdown Files.
Dev.to · Pini Solomon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Open-Sourced My AI Agent's Brain. It's 18 Markdown Files.
After running an autonomous AI agent for a week — scanning Reddit for gigs, publishing articles,...
Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Practical Guide to Orchestrating LLMs for Complex Workflows
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Practical Guide to Orchestrating LLMs for Complex Workflows
Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Practical Guide to Orchestrating LLMs for Complex...
Open Source Project #100: OpenMemory — A Real Cognitive Memory Engine for AI Agents
Dev.to · WonderLab 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Open Source Project #100: OpenMemory — A Real Cognitive Memory Engine for AI Agents
Introduction "A vector database remembers what was said. OpenMemory remembers what it...
Emerging Tech Frontiers: Navigating Real-Time Robotics, Digital Sovereignty, and AI's Energy Nexus
Dev.to · ChAnt Pulse 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Emerging Tech Frontiers: Navigating Real-Time Robotics, Digital Sovereignty, and AI's Energy Nexus
The rapid advancement of technology is fostering critical innovations in real-time robotics infrastructure, challenging traditional notions of digital export co
Agenvoy@v0.27.5
Dev.to · 邱敬幃 Pardn Chiu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agenvoy@v0.27.5
Agenvoy - A personal agent that writes its own tools and repairs itself — Make AI actually work for...
How much does an AI agent cost for business in 2026?
Dev.to · pante5ter 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How much does an AI agent cost for business in 2026?
Originally published on vengstudio.online. Agent or chatbot A chatbot answers along...
The FullAgenticStack Manifesto: Agents are not just LLMs
Dev.to · suissAI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The FullAgenticStack Manifesto: Agents are not just LLMs
Agents Are Not the Architecture Today, everyone is trying to build agents. Everywhere we...
Nobody Knows How Many AI Agents They're Running
Dev.to · NTCTech 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Nobody Knows How Many AI Agents They're Running
Ask an infrastructure team how many virtual machines they run and they'll give you a number. Ask...
The Viability Test Every AI-Dev Architecture Fails
Dev.to · Bala Paranj 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Viability Test Every AI-Dev Architecture Fails
A completeness law — independently confirmed by engineering, cybernetics, and economics — names the five elements any viable system must contain. The current AI
Anvil
Dev.to · Anthony Humphreys 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Anvil
Cross post Building Anvil Anvil did not start as a 'stack'. It still isn't, really, it is...