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We're building an open-source agentic workflow platform for faith-based ministry — and nothing is built yet
Dev.to · Steven Earl Jones 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
We're building an open-source agentic workflow platform for faith-based ministry — and nothing is built yet
Churches and benevolence ministries have a quiet crisis. Someone walks through the door in crisis —...
I Wired OpenRouter Free Models Into My OpenClaw Fallback Chain. Here's What Actually Works.
Dev.to · MrClaw207 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Wired OpenRouter Free Models Into My OpenClaw Fallback Chain. Here's What Actually Works.
Three weeks ago my OpenClaw agent started returning overloaded_error during peak hours. Not because...
Breaking the AI Chatbox: How Berkeley Students Built Real Autonomous Agents
Dev.to · Praveen Tech World 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Breaking the AI Chatbox: How Berkeley Students Built Real Autonomous Agents
Berkeley CS students stopped relying on ChatGPT for homework. They built autonomous AI agents that plan, execute code in sandboxes, and email results - no chat
A year of AI-agent incidents. The model is rarely the bug.
Dev.to · Arthur 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A year of AI-agent incidents. The model is rarely the bug.
I want to walk through the public AI-agent incidents from the last sixteen months in chronological order. The headline framing on each of them, when they hit th
Why I’m Building “doll”: A Personal AI Continuity System
Dev.to · Sohachi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why I’m Building “doll”: A Personal AI Continuity System
High-performance AI is available to far more people than it used to be. But there is no guarantee...
Ship an AI agent without a kill switch and you are the incident
Dev.to · Mirza Iqbal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Ship an AI agent without a kill switch and you are the incident
Building the agent is the easy 80 percent. The off switch is the 20 percent that decides whether you can ship it at all. Here is what a real one looks like.
Why AI Skills Are Broken - and How We Fixed the Architecture
Dev.to · Prashanth Velidandi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why AI Skills Are Broken - and How We Fixed the Architecture
The promise of AI skills When Claude introduced SKILL.md files in late 2025, it changed how...
An AI Agent Is a Hammer. The Think Phase Is Where You Aim It.
Dev.to · Jeel Vankhede 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
An AI Agent Is a Hammer. The Think Phase Is Where You Aim It.
The agent runs. The code appears. The feature is not what I wanted. Not because the model was wrong....
Our agent loops have been shipping production features for weeks. Here's the tool.
Dev.to · nwnwnw413 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Our agent loops have been shipping production features for weeks. Here's the tool.
Everyone's saying the same thing right now: stop prompting your coding agent, start designing the...
Gartner Says 40% of AI Agents Will Be Decommissioned by 2027. The Kill Switch Is Why.
Dev.to · Kavin Kim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Gartner Says 40% of AI Agents Will Be Decommissioned by 2027. The Kill Switch Is Why.
Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents...
AI agents scored 0% on expert tasks. The hype machine doesn't care.
Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI agents scored 0% on expert tasks. The hype machine doesn't care.
Top AI agents achieved zero percent on expert-level professional tasks according to the ALE...
I Cut My AI Agent's Token Bill by 62% in One Weekend. Here's the Receipts.
Dev.to · MrClaw207 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Cut My AI Agent's Token Bill by 62% in One Weekend. Here's the Receipts.
My agent spent $5.40 to do what a 200-line script does for free. Then I spent a weekend fixing it,...
I built a free multi-agent AI debate system — no API keys, no cost, runs in OpenCode
Dev.to · mahmoud abd allah mohamed 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built a free multi-agent AI debate system — no API keys, no cost, runs in OpenCode
I got tired of asking one AI model and trusting it blindly. So I built SYNAPSE — a workflow where 3...
Defense in Depth for an Agent That Will Definitely Screw Up
Dev.to · Artem Matviychuk 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Defense in Depth for an Agent That Will Definitely Screw Up
Third in a series on building an autonomous AI organism that operates real multi-tenant...
I Tested 184 Free AI APIs — A Data Scientist's Tier Breakdown
Dev.to · eagerspark 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Tested 184 Free AI APIs — A Data Scientist's Tier Breakdown
I Tested 184 Free AI APIs — A Data Scientist's Tier Breakdown I'll admit something embarrassing: I...
Building the AI Layer on Top of IoT: From Data Collection to Autonomous Action
Dev.to · Raelynn Rose 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building the AI Layer on Top of IoT: From Data Collection to Autonomous Action
Most IoT systems today are excellent at collecting data and mediocre at acting on it. The real...
Challenges in Implementing AI in Agile Projects
Dev.to · Denis Glushko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Challenges in Implementing AI in Agile Projects
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into agile projects offers numerous benefits, but it also...
The Integration of AI in Agile Project Management and Decision-Making
Dev.to · Denis Glushko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Integration of AI in Agile Project Management and Decision-Making
In recent years, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into agile project management and...
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail in Production (And How to Fix It)
Dev.to · Albert zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail in Production (And How to Fix It)
Most multi-agent demos look impressive on stage. Then they hit production and fall apart. Here's the...
We are building an operating layer for AI work, not just another agent tool
Dev.to · nexus-lab-zen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
We are building an operating layer for AI work, not just another agent tool
In the previous post, we wrote about a very small failure mode: an AI operator said a task was done,...
The Repo Is the Context: Why Agents Don’t Need History
Dev.to · Takafumi Endo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Repo Is the Context: Why Agents Don’t Need History
History is for humans. The present source of truth is for agents. Why I moved my effort from CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md to the repo itself — schema, tests, lint, e
I Built a Streaming AI Chat Client Without Losing My Mind
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built a Streaming AI Chat Client Without Losing My Mind
It started with a simple idea: a chat interface where the AI responds in real-time, token by token....
Building a No-Code Trading Bot Builder for Prediction Markets (Raven)
Dev.to · Emil Nielsen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a No-Code Trading Bot Builder for Prediction Markets (Raven)
Today I worked on Raven, a no-code trading bot builder for prediction markets. The goal is to improve...
I built a GitHub App that auto-generates adversarial tests for AI-written code — here's how it works
Dev.to · Fahad Hafeez 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built a GitHub App that auto-generates adversarial tests for AI-written code — here's how it works
Six months ago I kept reading the same story. Developer uses Cursor or Claude Code to ship a feature....
A prosthetic hand is now teaching an industrial robot & PepsiCo signed for autonomous freight. Here's what you missed this week.
Dev.to · xBerry 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A prosthetic hand is now teaching an industrial robot & PepsiCo signed for autonomous freight. Here's what you missed this week.
PSYONIC's prosthetic touch data is now training ABB robots. Gatik signed the first Fortune 50...
Understanding the Security Risks of AI Agents Today
Dev.to · tr 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Understanding the Security Risks of AI Agents Today
Discover the security risks of AI agents and learn how to protect your personal data while enjoying the benefits of this evolving technology.
How to Access 50+ Chinese AI Models Through One API Endpoint
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Access 50+ Chinese AI Models Through One API Endpoint
Here's a scenario you've probably lived through: you read a benchmark showing DeepSeek V4 Pro...
AI Agents in Production: Error Handling, Fallbacks, and Cost Control
Dev.to · Abdul Rehman 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Agents in Production: Error Handling, Fallbacks, and Cost Control
A senior engineer's guide to building reliable AI agent systems with retry logic, fallback chains, and cost monitoring from real production experience.
Multi-Model AI Routing: Cut Your API Costs by 90%
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Multi-Model AI Routing: Cut Your API Costs by 90%
Build an intelligent model router that picks the best model per task. Save 90% vs GPT-4o. Production-ready Python implementation.
How AIClaw Compresses Long Agent Conversations Without Losing the Important Parts
Dev.to · chowyu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How AIClaw Compresses Long Agent Conversations Without Losing the Important Parts
Long-running agent sessions eventually hit the same problem: the model keeps accumulating chat...
How to Migrate from OpenAI API to DeepSeek in 5 Minutes
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Migrate from OpenAI API to DeepSeek in 5 Minutes
Drop-in replacement guide: switch from OpenAI to DeepSeek with zero code changes. Includes pricing comparison, model mapping, and real benchmark results.
I'm building an AI OS for freelancers that manages 15 platforms at once
Dev.to · Ahmad Abba 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I'm building an AI OS for freelancers that manages 15 platforms at once
As a self-taught developer building from my phone in Abuja, Nigeria, I spend too much time switching...
Designing a Self-Prompting Agent Harness with Per-Task Prompt, Tool, and Strategy Synthesis
Dev.to · Pramoda Sahu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Designing a Self-Prompting Agent Harness with Per-Task Prompt, Tool, and Strategy Synthesis
Most agent stacks have matured in roughly the same direction: we version the code, test the tools,...
Generative Engine Optimization for SaaS: How to Help ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini Cite Your Product
Dev.to · Johrdan Blaack 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Generative Engine Optimization for SaaS: How to Help ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini Cite Your Product
AI answer engines are becoming a discovery channel for developer tools and SaaS products. When...
AI Agent Evaluation Harness: Test Real Workflows Before Users Do
Dev.to · Jack M 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Agent Evaluation Harness: Test Real Workflows Before Users Do
Build an AI agent evaluation harness with task fixtures, trace scoring, judge checks, regression tests, budgets, and human review before agents fail in producti
I Gave Each of My AI Agents a Personality — Here's Why My Workflow Actually Improved
Dev.to · Sam Hartley 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Gave Each of My AI Agents a Personality — Here's Why My Workflow Actually Improved
I used to have one AI assistant. It did everything — coded, wrote docs, answered questions, monitored...
What Your AI Agent Quietly Leaks: A Data-Privacy Checklist for Fintech and Healthtech
Dev.to · Rishabh Jain 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What Your AI Agent Quietly Leaks: A Data-Privacy Checklist for Fintech and Healthtech
Here is a question that stops most AI projects cold once someone in compliance asks it: "When a...
Running Local Private AI Models – How And Why
Dev.to · Dragos Roua 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Running Local Private AI Models – How And Why
Originally published at dragosroua.com. Last week, Anthropic released Fable 5. Three days later, the...
Agentic QA in 2026: How Autonomous Testing Agents Are Replacing Manual CI/CD Checks
Dev.to · Sunil Kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agentic QA in 2026: How Autonomous Testing Agents Are Replacing Manual CI/CD Checks
Agentic QA agents now run CI/CD pipelines autonomously in 2026 — planning tests, catching regressions, and closing coverage gaps without human direction. Here's
Your AI Agent Forgets Everything After Every Session. Graphiti Fixes That.
Dev.to · ClawBase 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI Agent Forgets Everything After Every Session. Graphiti Fixes That.
Most AI agents treat every conversation like a first date. Graphiti builds temporal knowledge graphs that track how facts change over time — giving agents real
Your agent remembers. that's the problem
Dev.to · Patdolitse 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your agent remembers. that's the problem
We spent a year teaching coding agents to remember things. Remembering turned out to be the easy...
AWS Just Made LiteLLM a First-Class Model Provider in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Dev.to · Paul Twist 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AWS Just Made LiteLLM a First-Class Model Provider in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS just launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness as generally available. And buried in the model...
Dify Agentic Workflow Platform: 5 Hidden Uses of the 145K-Star Open Source AI Stack
Dev.to · 韩 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Dify Agentic Workflow Platform: 5 Hidden Uses of the 145K-Star Open Source AI Stack
What if you could build a production-ready AI agent workflow in 10 lines of YAML — and have it handle...
Agentic RAG Isn't Just Fancy Autocomplete. It's a Whole New Infrastructure Problem.
Dev.to · Venu gopal varma Bhupathiraju 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agentic RAG Isn't Just Fancy Autocomplete. It's a Whole New Infrastructure Problem.
We've all read the headlines. "Agentic RAG is the next big thing." "AI systems that think for...
We taught agents to act on their own. Now someone has to watch the door.
Dev.to · Alister Baroi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
We taught agents to act on their own. Now someone has to watch the door.
I work at Tigera, so take this with the appropriate grain of salt. But I've spent enough time around...
Your site just failed Lighthouse's new Agentic Browsing audit — here's how to fix each check
Dev.to · Robert 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your site just failed Lighthouse's new Agentic Browsing audit — here's how to fix each check
If you've opened Chrome DevTools lately and run Lighthouse, you may have noticed a new category...
How Clioloop's Agentic Fusion Works: A Technical Deep Dive
Dev.to · Omni loop research Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How Clioloop's Agentic Fusion Works: A Technical Deep Dive
Understanding the architecture behind multi-model planning, execution, and review fusion in Clioloop.
The AI agent that writes your tests, runs them, and won't stop until they pass
Dev.to · Simon Ugorji 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The AI agent that writes your tests, runs them, and won't stop until they pass
I spent more time feeling guilty about missing tests than it would have taken to just write them. So...