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Explain the ReAct pattern
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Implement function calling with structured schemas
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Build supervisor/worker agent architectures
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From Chatbot to Mailbox: Persistent Agent Memory in Threads
Dev.to · Qasim Muhammad 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Chatbot to Mailbox: Persistent Agent Memory in Threads
Day 1, 4:02 p.m.: a customer asks your agent a billing question and gets an answer. Day 6, 9:30 a.m.:...
Giving your agents a terminal: a first look at the tabstack CLI
Dev.to · Steve McDougall 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Giving your agents a terminal: a first look at the tabstack CLI
Every project I touch lately ends up needing the same awkward thing: a reliable way to pull the web...
Cloud AI & Dev Updates: Agent APIs, MCP Infra Patterns, and Local Model Strategies
Dev.to · soy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Cloud AI & Dev Updates: Agent APIs, MCP Infra Patterns, and Local Model Strategies
Cloud AI & Dev Updates: Agent APIs, MCP Infra Patterns, and Local Model Strategies ...
TASKS FOR AI: THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR, QUANTUM DECOHERENCE, AND HACKER PROTECTION —RESULT
Dev.to · alex boyarskiy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
TASKS FOR AI: THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR, QUANTUM DECOHERENCE, AND HACKER PROTECTION —RESULT
I always wanted to understand: is artificial intelligence truly capable of solving problems not just...
Building AI agents with LangChain
Dev.to · Željko Šević 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building AI agents with LangChain
LangChain agents are built on LangGraph: the model calls tools in a loop until it returns a final...
Agent Architecture Is a Compute Allocation Problem: The Advisor Strategy, Cost-Curve Frame Recursed
Dev.to · Harrison Guo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agent Architecture Is a Compute Allocation Problem: The Advisor Strategy, Cost-Curve Frame Recursed
Anthropic named the advisor strategy in April. Tobi Lutke made it viral in May. HazyResearch formalized it earlier. One cost-curve frame unifies all three: chea
How I Built an AI Resume Optimizer with FastAPI + Claude API (and got 100 users in 4 months)
Dev.to · YASH SARJEKAR 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Built an AI Resume Optimizer with FastAPI + Claude API (and got 100 users in 4 months)
Six months ago my cousin was applying to 50+ jobs and getting no callbacks. His resume looked fine....
Your AI agent is a stack of files. muster 1.0.0 tests all of them.
Dev.to · Jeroen Nouws 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI agent is a stack of files. muster 1.0.0 tests all of them.
muster is a conformance harness for the agent-file stack. It checks each file an agent is built from against its spec, and checks whether the model actually beh
**Quick Tip: How to Choose the Right Model for Slack AI Workflows in 2026
Dev.to · gentlenode 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
**Quick Tip: How to Choose the Right Model for Slack AI Workflows in 2026
Quick Tip: How to Choose the Right Model for Slack AI Workflows in 2026 I've been running...
Your AI agent has a shell, a token, and no manager. Here’s why that breaks DevSecOps.
Dev.to · oyugirachel 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI agent has a shell, a token, and no manager. Here’s why that breaks DevSecOps.
If you’ve wired up an autonomous coding agent in the last six months, you’ve probably given it more...
Building a self-hosted, AI-native workflow engine in Rust (180 node types, no SDK bloat)
Dev.to · 元方 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a self-hosted, AI-native workflow engine in Rust (180 node types, no SDK bloat)
I've spent the last while building Trigix — an open-source (MIT), self-hostable workflow automation...
Bridging the Gap: Connect Local AI Agents to A-Modular-Kingdom MCP Server Automatically
Dev.to · Masih Maafi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Bridging the Gap: Connect Local AI Agents to A-Modular-Kingdom MCP Server Automatically
How to easily bootstrap and register a memory/RAG Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for local coding agents like Codex and Claude Code using an automated setu
Lo humano, lo automatizable, lo irresponsable.
Dev.to · Diana Castro 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Lo humano, lo automatizable, lo irresponsable.
Durante años hemos desarrollado habilidades que van mucho más allá de encontrar respuestas....
Expanding the Sovereign AI Stack: Moving the Specification from Gateway to Local Silicon
Dev.to · Ken W Alger 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Expanding the Sovereign AI Stack: Moving the Specification from Gateway to Local Silicon
When I first introduced the Sovereign Systems Specification and released the initial foundation of...
Phone AI Agent vs AI Agent Phone — Why Word Order Changes Everything (2026)
Dev.to · Nat 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Phone AI Agent vs AI Agent Phone — Why Word Order Changes Everything (2026)
OpenAI announced an AI agent phone in April 2026. Qualcomm and MediaTek are building the silicon. The...
Idempotency Lessons From an Email Agent
Dev.to · Qasim Muhammad 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Idempotency Lessons From an Email Agent
A customer emails your support agent at 9:14 a.m. At 9:15 they get a helpful reply. At 9:16 they get...
Human-in-the-Loop Design for Email Agents
Dev.to · Qasim Muhammad 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Human-in-the-Loop Design for Email Agents
A refund request lands in your support agent's queue. The knowledge-base match comes back at 0.91...
The Lifecycle of an Agent Identity: Provision to Teardown
Dev.to · Qasim Muhammad 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Lifecycle of an Agent Identity: Provision to Teardown
Every infrastructure team has a graveyard. Service accounts nobody remembers creating. API keys that...
Test AgentMail multi-tenant webhooks before they leak across tenants
Dev.to · FetchSandbox 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Test AgentMail multi-tenant webhooks before they leak across tenants
AgentMail webhook creation can look done after a 200 OK. The real test is whether the persisted webhook is still scoped to the inboxes you sent.
How I Built Form Infrastructure for AI Agents
Dev.to · Vincent 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Built Form Infrastructure for AI Agents
AI agents are getting better at reasoning but they still struggle with one thing: structured input....
AI Doesn’t Need More Intelligence. It Needs Better Coordination.
Dev.to · EvanLin | Contorium 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Doesn’t Need More Intelligence. It Needs Better Coordination.
The AI industry is obsessed with model upgrades. Every week we see larger context windows, faster...
Dapr 1.18's Verifiable Execution: The Trust Layer Autonomous AI Agents on Kubernetes Have Been Missing
Dev.to · Jeffrey Victor 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Dapr 1.18's Verifiable Execution: The Trust Layer Autonomous AI Agents on Kubernetes Have Been Missing
Dapr 1.18 adds verifiable execution for autonomous AI agents on Kubernetes. Cryptographic proof, signed traces, and compliance for regulated industries.
Clearbit died. Here's a pay-per-call company enrichment API for AI agents ($0.03/lookup)
Dev.to · Tuf Ti 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Clearbit died. Here's a pay-per-call company enrichment API for AI agents ($0.03/lookup)
Clearbit's free API shut down April 30, 2025. The replacement (HubSpot Breeze Intelligence) requires...
Zero to Codebase Expert: 9 Agent Skills for Onboarding Any Repo with Cursor
Dev.to · Muhammad Usman 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Zero to Codebase Expert: 9 Agent Skills for Onboarding Any Repo with Cursor
Every time I open an unfamiliar codebase, I end up repeating the same process: Explaining the...
Building a Polymarket Trading Bot: Architecture, Execution, and Risk Management
Dev.to · Rust Engineer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Polymarket Trading Bot: Architecture, Execution, and Risk Management
How I built a real-time automated trading system that monitors BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP...
Sticky Hands Off the Red Button: Approvals, Events, and Resumable Agents in HazelJS
Dev.to · Shehriyar Malik 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Sticky Hands Off the Red Button: Approvals, Events, and Resumable Agents in HazelJS
Picture a “helpful” agent that can refund any order or delete any database row the moment the model...
One base_url for GPT, Claude, and Gemini: cutting three SDKs down to one
Dev.to · chenxiao5580-cmd 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
One base_url for GPT, Claude, and Gemini: cutting three SDKs down to one
Juggling OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google SDKs means three auth schemes, three response shapes, three failure modes. Here's how to collapse them behind one OpenAI-
Google ADK Tutorial: Build Your First AI Agent [2026]
Dev.to · Kunal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Google ADK Tutorial: Build Your First AI Agent [2026]
Google's ADK Python 2.0 is GA with 20K+ GitHub stars — here's how to build, harden, and deploy your first AI agent beyond the happy path.
Agentic AI Frameworks: What 370K GitHub Stars Reveal
Dev.to · Shehzan Sheikh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agentic AI Frameworks: What 370K GitHub Stars Reveal
Your agent worked brilliantly in the demo. It generated clean code, wrote tests, even added...
From Invoice to Owner: A Practitioner's Guide to Request-Level AI Cost Attribution
Dev.to · Void Stitch 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Invoice to Owner: A Practitioner's Guide to Request-Level AI Cost Attribution
TL;DR Provider invoices aggregate by model and billing period. They cannot tell you which...
Mid-Conversation System Prompts: Steering an Agent Without Breaking the Cache
Dev.to · Pavel Espitia 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Mid-Conversation System Prompts: Steering an Agent Without Breaking the Cache
Here is a problem I hit building a long-running agent: I needed to inject a new instruction partway...
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 30 (06/17)
Dev.to · Shawn 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 30 (06/17)
Today's Highlights · Alibaba launched Qwen-Robot (Alibaba's embodied AI series), its first embodied...
Your AI vendor already complied. You didn't.
Dev.to · Gatis Ozols 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI vendor already complied. You didn't.
Talk to enough SaaS founders and you get the same shrug. EU AI Act? That's OpenAI's headache. You...
The New SDLC: A Senior Dev's Honest Take on Vibe Coding and Agentic Engineering
Dev.to · Sayed Ali Alkamel 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The New SDLC: A Senior Dev's Honest Take on Vibe Coding and Agentic Engineering
The SDLC didn't get faster, it got different. How agentic engineering, context engineering, and the factory model reshape software delivery in 2026.
Why the Fable 5 Crisis Proves Your AI Context Layer Can't Live Inside the Model
Dev.to · Jonathan Murray 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why the Fable 5 Crisis Proves Your AI Context Layer Can't Live Inside the Model
Rent the Intelligence, Own the Memory On Friday, a single government letter pulled a...
Your AI Provider Is a Single Point of Failure
Dev.to · Maish Saidel-Keesing 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI Provider Is a Single Point of Failure
Last Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department sent a letter to Anthropic. By that evening, Fable 5 and...
A Company AI Flagged My Article As "Low Quality." I Ran the Numbers. Then I Ran Again.
Dev.to · xulingfeng 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A Company AI Flagged My Article As "Low Quality." I Ran the Numbers. Then I Ran Again.
A story about an AI content moderation system that flagged 347 posts since launch — and what...
The NSA just made the case for a policy layer in front of MCP
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The NSA just made the case for a policy layer in front of MCP
If you build infrastructure for AI agents, the NSA's May report on MCP security is the most important...
MCP OAuth: Connecting Agents to Protected Servers
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
MCP OAuth: Connecting Agents to Protected Servers
Static API keys in client config are the easy way to authenticate an MCP server and the easy way to...
MCP Gateway: What It Is and Why Agent Fleets Need One
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
MCP Gateway: What It Is and Why Agent Fleets Need One
An MCP server exposes tools. delete_repository, create_charge, execute_query. The agent calls...
AI Agent Containment Starts at the Environment Layer
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Agent Containment Starts at the Environment Layer
Anthropic just published how they contain Claude. The number that should stop every platform team:...
AI Is Changing How Meetings Work. Most Teams Are Not Ready for That.
Dev.to · Mohamed 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Is Changing How Meetings Work. Most Teams Are Not Ready for That.
Something subtle has been happening in the organizations I work with over the past eighteen months....
System Prompts vs. Transport Firewalls: Why System Prompts Do Not Equal Security
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
System Prompts vs. Transport Firewalls: Why System Prompts Do Not Equal Security
When deploying autonomous AI agents in production, securing their tool access is the most critical...
Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit: 9 Packages, MCP-Blind
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit: 9 Packages, MCP-Blind
Microsoft just open-sourced the Agent Governance Toolkit — nine packages covering policy enforcement,...
Why Prompt Guardrails Fail for AI Agent Safety (And What Works Instead)
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why Prompt Guardrails Fail for AI Agent Safety (And What Works Instead)
Most teams building AI agents start with prompt guardrails as their safety strategy: write rules in...
Building an Automated Invoice Processing Pipeline with Node.js
Dev.to · DevToolsmith 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building an Automated Invoice Processing Pipeline with Node.js
Accounts payable teams spend an average of 3.7 minutes manually processing each invoice. At 200 invoices per month, that's 12+ hours of data entry. Here's how t
AI took the friction out of my work. Then I found out the friction was holding up two things: my ideas and my brakes. Twenty-five years in a confession.
Dev.to · Sergei Frangulov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI took the friction out of my work. Then I found out the friction was holding up two things: my ideas and my brakes. Twenty-five years in a confession.
For a long time now the news and the roundups have all said the same thing. AI will take away the...
Preventing Your AI Agent From Messaging #general
Dev.to · PolicyLayer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Preventing Your AI Agent From Messaging #general
It starts innocently. You give your agent access to Slack so it can post a daily standup summary....