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Building a Confidential AI Agent on Terminal 3: Weather Agent Inside a TDX Enclave
Dev.to · Harish Kotra (he/him) 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Confidential AI Agent on Terminal 3: Weather Agent Inside a TDX Enclave
How to run Rust code inside a hardware TEE that calls OpenWeatherMap — without the API key ever...
How to Let an AI Agent Generate Real PDFs (with an MCP server)
Dev.to · Gerardo Barrera 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Let an AI Agent Generate Real PDFs (with an MCP server)
AI agents are great at producing text. But the moment you need an actual document — an invoice, a...
swarm-test v0.3.4 — Auto-Classifying Agent Roles (and Why Role Changes What a Failure Means)
Dev.to · suraj kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
swarm-test v0.3.4 — Auto-Classifying Agent Roles (and Why Role Changes What a Failure Means)
swarm-test v0.3.4 adds automatic agent role classification. The tool now figures out what each agent...
From Prompts to AI Agents: A Frontend Developer's Guide to Mastery
Dev.to · Dave Kurian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Prompts to AI Agents: A Frontend Developer's Guide to Mastery
Learn how frontend developers can evolve from crafting simple prompts to building sophisticated AI agents with this clear, step-by-step guide.
AI Model Failover Drills: Keep Agents Useful When Providers Break
Dev.to · Jack M 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Model Failover Drills: Keep Agents Useful When Providers Break
Run AI model failover drills with schema-safe retries, fallback contracts, circuit breakers, golden tasks, and recovery logs before provider issues hit users.
How I Cut a Client's AI API Bill from ₹85K to ₹12K/Month — Without Losing Quality
Dev.to · Archit Mittal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Cut a Client's AI API Bill from ₹85K to ₹12K/Month — Without Losing Quality
₹85,000 per month. That was the AI API bill sitting in my client's inbox when they called me in a...
I Built an AI That Turns 2 Hours of Compliance Paperwork Into 3 Minutes — Full Architecture Teardown
Dev.to · Archit Mittal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built an AI That Turns 2 Hours of Compliance Paperwork Into 3 Minutes — Full Architecture Teardown
Financial advisors have a dirty secret: they spend almost half their working hours not advising...
Load late, load little: just-in-time context for conversation history
Dev.to · NirajPandey05 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Load late, load little: just-in-time context for conversation history
Most agents drag their entire past into every turn. A better default: keep a thin index of what was...
I built an open-source MCP server that gives any AI assistant live NSE + BSE stock data
Dev.to · Govind Sisara 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built an open-source MCP server that gives any AI assistant live NSE + BSE stock data
The itch Ask ChatGPT or Claude "what was Reliance's operating margin last quarter?" and...
What's the Most Annoying Part of Incident Response? I Built 5 AI Tools Trying to Solve It
Dev.to · Praveen Ballari 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What's the Most Annoying Part of Incident Response? I Built 5 AI Tools Trying to Solve It
Three months ago, I noticed something frustrating. When incidents happen, engineers often spend more...
Don't make the agent do the geometry
Dev.to · Truffle 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Don't make the agent do the geometry
An agent turned five stickies into a mind map on a perfect ring and computed none of the coordinates. The lever in an agent-operated tool is the deterministic p
I Made Claude Code Think Before It Codes. Then I Gave It a Team.
Dev.to · v.j.k. 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Made Claude Code Think Before It Codes. Then I Gave It a Team.
Last year I gave Claude Code a process so it would think before it codes. This year I gave it a team: an issue-maintainer that turns ideas into tickets, an orch
No agent calls WebMCP yet. Here's the honest case for shipping it today — and how to know the day that changes.
Dev.to · Robert 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
No agent calls WebMCP yet. Here's the honest case for shipping it today — and how to know the day that changes.
There's an uncomfortable fact under all the WebMCP excitement, and the skeptics are right to keep...
How to Access 50+ Chinese AI Models Through One API — No Code Changes Required
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Access 50+ Chinese AI Models Through One API — No Code Changes Required
If you've been following the AI market lately, you already know the headline numbers: DeepSeek V4...
Simon Willison's Blog 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Quoting Sean Lynch
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness com
Discover Broadly, Implement Narrowly
Dev.to · Ricardo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Discover Broadly, Implement Narrowly
I have been building software with coding agents across more than isolated functions and local fixes....
AI news archive: June 5, 2026
Dev.to · Damien Gallagher 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AI news archive: June 5, 2026
A BuildrLab archive roundup of AI news and developer signals from June 5, 2026, led by: Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
AI news archive: May 26, 2026
Dev.to · Damien Gallagher 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AI news archive: May 26, 2026
A BuildrLab archive roundup of AI news and developer signals from May 26, 2026, led by: DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents
Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP, Azure Serverless AI Agents, GitLab 19.0 AI DevSecOps
Dev.to · soy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP, Azure Serverless AI Agents, GitLab 19.0 AI DevSecOps
Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP, Azure Serverless AI Agents, GitLab 19.0 AI DevSecOps ...
AI news today: agent pricing, rare disease diagnosis, and China's local-model push
Dev.to · Damien Gallagher 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AI news today: agent pricing, rare disease diagnosis, and China's local-model push
Today's AI news is less about a single flashy demo and more about where the money, risk, and real-world work are moving.
How to Access 50+ Chinese AI Models Through One API
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How to Access 50+ Chinese AI Models Through One API
The Fragmentation Problem If you've tried keeping up with Chinese AI models in 2026, you...
Building AI Agents, Breaking Code, and the Quest for "Zero-Slop" Engineering
Dev.to · David 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building AI Agents, Breaking Code, and the Quest for "Zero-Slop" Engineering
Hey everyone. I'm finally jumping into the DEV community to share what I'm learning while building in...
Astrophysics & AI with Python: Mastering Solar Flare Analysis with SunPy
Dev.to · Programming Central 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Astrophysics & AI with Python: Mastering Solar Flare Analysis with SunPy
The Sun is not a static, gentle star. It is a churning, magnetic powerhouse that bathes our solar...
Stop Building Wrapper Apps. The Real Frontier is AIoT (AI + IoT)
Dev.to · Sonal Tigga 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Stop Building Wrapper Apps. The Real Frontier is AIoT (AI + IoT)
The software community is currently trapped in a loop. Open up your feed on any given day, and...
Self-Evolving AI Agents: The Optimizer Is the Easy Part
Dev.to · Matthias | StudioMeyer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Self-Evolving AI Agents: The Optimizer Is the Easy Part
There are two kinds of AI agent in production right now. The first one you babysit. You tweak its...
AutoJack: One Web Page Turns a Local AI Agent Into Host Code Execution
Dev.to · Etairos.ai 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AutoJack: One Web Page Turns a Local AI Agent Into Host Code Execution
TL;DR what: AutoJack chains three weaknesses in AutoGen Studio's MCP WebSocket so an...
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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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 3w 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....