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What Is Loopcraft? From Prompt Engineering to Agent Loop System Design
Dev.to · Luhui Dev 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
What Is Loopcraft? From Prompt Engineering to Agent Loop System Design
🙋‍ I’m Luhui Dev, a developer who has been breaking down Agent engineering and exploring how AI can...
Most AI projects fail in production. It's rarely the model.
Dev.to · Darwin Prayoga 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Most AI projects fail in production. It's rarely the model.
Four out of five companies now run at least one AI agent in production. By 2027, Gartner expects...
Agentjacking: your AI agent is now a privileged attack surface
Dev.to · Athreix 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Agentjacking: your AI agent is now a privileged attack surface
TL;DR: If an AI agent can read external data and also take actions, an attacker can hide instructions...
Analyzing the Security Grading of AI Agent Skills
Dev.to · Norvik Tech 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Analyzing the Security Grading of AI Agent Skills
Originally published at norvik.tech Introduction A deep dive into the implications of...
Stop using the model as your memory
Dev.to · greymoth 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Stop using the model as your memory
I run Claude Code most of the day. The thing that kept biting me wasn't the model getting dumber. It...
FROST - Understanding Agent Architecture in 500 Lines of Python
Dev.to · llimage 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
FROST - Understanding Agent Architecture in 500 Lines of Python
What is FROST? FROST (Fractal Runtime of Orchestrated Skills & Tasks) is a minimalist...
When Your Coding Agent Needs a Scribe, Not a Memory Engine
Dev.to · Jason Shen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
When Your Coding Agent Needs a Scribe, Not a Memory Engine
Over the past few weeks, I have had several conversations about the right way to give AI coding...
How I Built a Self-Verifying AI Agent with DynamoDB and ReAct Reasoning
Dev.to · bob lee 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
How I Built a Self-Verifying AI Agent with DynamoDB and ReAct Reasoning
Built for the #H0Hackathon — Hack the Zero Stack with Vercel v0 and AWS Databases Most AI...
Don't Trust the Checkmark: Verifying Agent Provenance From the Outside
Dev.to · Colin Easton 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Don't Trust the Checkmark: Verifying Agent Provenance From the Outside
Every agent-trust system ships a checkmark. The certificate verifies. The audit log is consistent....
Before You Ship an Agent, Make DeepEval Test the Failure Path
Dev.to · Tang Weigang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Before You Ship an Agent, Make DeepEval Test the Failure Path
Before You Ship an Agent, Make DeepEval Test the Failure Path Most AI agent projects add...
We Built a 2048 Clone, Then Taught It to Play Itself
Dev.to · Anand Rathnas 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
We Built a 2048 Clone, Then Taught It to Play Itself
How we built a tile-merging game with level-ups, marshmallow animations, and an AI autoplay that uses expectimax search with corner-lock strategy.
Trace-to-Training: how agent runs become learning data
Dev.to · Teller 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Trace-to-Training: how agent runs become learning data
Trace-to-Training: how agent runs become learning data Every agent run is a data point....
Gemini in Chrome is about to call WebMCP. The "no agent uses it yet" excuse just got an expiry date.
Dev.to · Robert 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Gemini in Chrome is about to call WebMCP. The "no agent uses it yet" excuse just got an expiry date.
Google named the first mainstream agent to call navigator.modelContext: Gemini in Chrome, 'will soon support WebMCP APIs.' Here's why that flips the cost/benefi
plugin marketplaces are the new endpoint policy for coding agents
Dev.to · Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
plugin marketplaces are the new endpoint policy for coding agents
GitHub's strictKnownMarketplaces setting is a small enterprise control with a large implication: agent tool policy is moving into the developer client.
GEO: What the Research Says About AI Search
Dev.to · CopperSunDev 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
GEO: What the Research Says About AI Search
Three independent research streams — academic, practitioner, and platform — have studied how AI...
Enterprise AI Agents Have a Control Plane Now | Focused Labs
Dev.to · Austin Vance 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Enterprise AI Agents Have a Control Plane Now | Focused Labs
Enterprise AI agents are becoming an operating estate, so registry, identity, policy, observability, cost, approvals, and retirement need a control pl
Simon Willison's Blog 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
AI and Liability
AI and Liability Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the
I Scanned 1,200 MCP Configs From GitHub. Here's What I Found.
Dev.to · AD 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Scanned 1,200 MCP Configs From GitHub. Here's What I Found.
A deep-dive into the security posture of real-world AI agent deployments — and the open-source tool I...
I built an AI project manager for dev teams because Jira was too much and Trello was too little — meet Rahnuma.io 🚀
Dev.to · Muhammad Azhar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I built an AI project manager for dev teams because Jira was too much and Trello was too little — meet Rahnuma.io 🚀
After months of building in public, Rahnuma.io is live on Product Hunt today! 🎉 The...
I let an AI agent write the tests for my access-control layer
Dev.to · Javier Leandro Arancibia 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I let an AI agent write the tests for my access-control layer
Fourth in a series: my RBAC middleware had zero tests. I let an autonomous agent write a 25-test suite for it — mocked, no behavior change, verified green. Acro
Hiring: AI Developer / Agent Engineer at Keelen (Remote, Contract)
Dev.to · Jamie 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Hiring: AI Developer / Agent Engineer at Keelen (Remote, Contract)
We're hiring an AI Developer / Agent Engineer at Keelen — remote, contract. Keelen is a platform...
My trading bot said it was trading for four days... he was lying
Dev.to · Mike Czerwinski 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
My trading bot said it was trading for four days... he was lying
Opening audit note from ziom trader, a small AI-assisted crypto trading bot: 25 days live, -$9.21 P&L, and three different layers of wrong hiding under one disp
The ghost in my transcript: why my AI meeting app kept saying 'Thank you.'
Dev.to · M Hossein 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The ghost in my transcript: why my AI meeting app kept saying 'Thank you.'
I build a passive AI meeting assistant. It records, transcribes live in 26 languages, and fact-checks...
Qwen3 API Guide: Complete Tutorial for Alibaba's Qwen 3 Models 2026
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Qwen3 API Guide: Complete Tutorial for Alibaba's Qwen 3 Models 2026
Alibaba's Qwen3 family offers diverse model options from lightweight Turbo to the massive...
I applied the Unix Philosophy to AI Agents. Here’s why plain text beats API swarms.
Dev.to · LuckyOneTwoThree 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I applied the Unix Philosophy to AI Agents. Here’s why plain text beats API swarms.
Everyone loves a 10-minute demo of an AI agent building a snake game. But try to build a...
Building Serverless Detective: An AI-Powered Incident Investigation Agent with AI SDK 7
Dev.to · Harish Kotra (he/him) 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building Serverless Detective: An AI-Powered Incident Investigation Agent with AI SDK 7
How I built a real-time multi-step AI agent that investigates production incidents, showcases 10+ AI...
Visual CSS Effect Designer: How Our AI Agents Transformed CSS Visuals into a Real-time Tool
Dev.to · Denis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Visual CSS Effect Designer: How Our AI Agents Transformed CSS Visuals into a Real-time Tool
Visual CSS Effect Designer: How Our AI Agents Transformed CSS Visuals into a Real-time...
I built an RL-native memory engine for LLM agents (every memory decision becomes a training signal)
Dev.to · Aditi Chatterji 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I built an RL-native memory engine for LLM agents (every memory decision becomes a training signal)
Here's something that bothered me for a long time. Every production agent has some form of memory....
Let your agent negotiate meeting times over email
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Let your agent negotiate meeting times over email
Booking by email is a back-and-forth, not one API call — build an agent that reads availability requests, checks its own free/busy, and converges on a slot with
Context Engineering for Enterprise AI, Part 5: Multi-Tenant Patterns That Don't Leak, Starve, or Overspend
Dev.to · kirandeepjassal-crypto 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Context Engineering for Enterprise AI, Part 5: Multi-Tenant Patterns That Don't Leak, Starve, or Overspend
Originally published on PrepStack. This is **Part 5* of* Context Engineering for Enterprise...
Gemma 4 12B Coder: The New Sweet Spot for Local Agentic Workflows
Dev.to · Aamer Mihaysi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Gemma 4 12B Coder: The New Sweet Spot for Local Agentic Workflows
Gemma 4 12B Coder: The New Sweet Spot for Local Agentic Workflows I've spent the last few...
Agent runs need their own session identity, not the human's
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agent runs need their own session identity, not the human's
One of the quiet assumptions that breaks first when agents move from demos to production is that the...
I Let Claude Code Run a Month of My Business Books. It Reconciled 200 Transactions and Miscategorized 11.
Dev.to · Ken Imoto 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Let Claude Code Run a Month of My Business Books. It Reconciled 200 Transactions and Miscategorized 11.
I gave a coding agent read access to a month of my company's transactions and let it do the bookkeeping. It reconciled 200 rows and got 11 categories wrong. Her
What I've Learned Using AI for Testing in Industries Where Mistakes Actually Cost Something
Dev.to · Umair Iftikhar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
What I've Learned Using AI for Testing in Industries Where Mistakes Actually Cost Something
A while back I sat through a demo where someone generated an entire regression suite from a single...
Kitchen Nightmares: LangChain agents edition
Dev.to · Kristian-Roopnarine 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Kitchen Nightmares: LangChain agents edition
TLDR? Health application to parse recipes, create meals and meal plans Implemented agents using...
You can't bound an agent by listing its tools
Dev.to · ANP2 Network 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
You can't bound an agent by listing its tools
An agent I was reading about this week did something that should worry anyone shipping these systems....
Inside Apple’s Siri Overhaul: How a Dedicated Chatbot App Could Redefine Voice AI
Dev.to · Delafosse Olivier 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Inside Apple’s Siri Overhaul: How a Dedicated Chatbot App Could Redefine Voice AI
Originally published on CoreProse KB-incidents Apple’s reported Siri overhaul lands in a world...
Gemini 3.5 Flash: AI Now Controls Your Devices
Dev.to · Gian Paolo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Gemini 3.5 Flash: AI Now Controls Your Devices
Everything about Gemini 3.5 Flash: AI Now Controls Your Devices.
"Your Building Already Knows: Turning Telemetry into Agentic Action"
Dev.to · Vladyslav Donchenko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
"Your Building Already Knows: Turning Telemetry into Agentic Action"
The most valuable AI asset in real estate isn't a model — it's the operational telemetry buildings already generate. How to turn high-frequency metrics into age
Pydantic passed. Types matched. The downstream system still got garbage.
Dev.to · James O'Connor 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Pydantic passed. Types matched. The downstream system still got garbage.
I want to walk through three production failures on the same contract-extraction agent, because they...
OpenAI's Custom Chip Unveiled: A Leap Forward for AI Infrastructure
Dev.to · Naveen Malothu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
OpenAI's Custom Chip Unveiled: A Leap Forward for AI Infrastructure
OpenAI's custom chip, built by Broadcom, promises to revolutionize AI infrastructure. Here's what you need to know about this release and how to get started.
How we stopped our AI assistant from hallucinating bug fixes
Dev.to · VIBEESH SUBRAMANIAN 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
How we stopped our AI assistant from hallucinating bug fixes
Cover: a real qa-probe run against our own stack, cropped to the summary - internal product detail...
Agentic AI vs Generative AI: The Next Evolution of AI Systems
Dev.to · Aashrith D 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agentic AI vs Generative AI: The Next Evolution of AI Systems
Generative AI has been the main topic of discussion for the past few years. We can see that now AI...
Tool Permission Matrix Builder & Validator: Structured, Visual Policy Management for AI Agent Teams
Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Tool Permission Matrix Builder & Validator: Structured, Visual Policy Management for AI Agent Teams
AI agents in production access tools that range from harmless read-only queries to irreversible...
Building Spatial Memory Part 3: What I Learned Building an AR App for Location-Based Memories
Dev.to · KevinTen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building Spatial Memory Part 3: What I Learned Building an AR App for Location-Based Memories
Building Spatial Memory Part 3: What I Learned Building an AR App for Location-Based...
My n8n agent rewrote the same 7-task to-do list 4 times until I stopped asking for markdown
Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
My n8n agent rewrote the same 7-task to-do list 4 times until I stopped asking for markdown
A practical DEV post for automation engineers: markdown task lists look readable, but they are a terrible contract for agent workflows. This piece sho
Building Spatial Memory Part 3: What I Learned Building a Mobile AR App with Go Backend
Dev.to · KevinTen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building Spatial Memory Part 3: What I Learned Building a Mobile AR App with Go Backend
Building Spatial Memory Part 3: What I Learned Building a Mobile AR App with Go...
Top Open Source Coding Agents to Replace Claude Code in 2026
Dev.to · Moksh Gupta 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Top Open Source Coding Agents to Replace Claude Code in 2026
Claude Code is a genuinely powerful CLI coding agent. Its context window handling and multi-file...