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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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Design end-to-end autonomous pipelines
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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...
Agents With Amnesia: Why Memory Is the Real Frontier in Building AI Agents
Dev.to · Karl Mehta 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agents With Amnesia: Why Memory Is the Real Frontier in Building AI Agents
Notes from three days inside Google DeepMind — on Antigravity, client- and server-side memory, and...
The AI Model Isn't Your Competitive Advantage.
Dev.to · Irvan Gerhana Septiyana 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The AI Model Isn't Your Competitive Advantage.
Your Governance Model Is. Every time a new AI model is released, the same conversation...
[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer
Latent Space 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer
Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!
AI Agents Don't Understand Your Business.
Dev.to · Irvan Gerhana Septiyana 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
AI Agents Don't Understand Your Business.
Your Taxonomy Does. Every week, a new AI Agent framework appears. One week it's...
How I Automated API Documentation with AI – Lessons Learned
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How I Automated API Documentation with AI – Lessons Learned
I inherited a legacy Django codebase a few months ago. The code worked, but there was zero...
Giving an AI agent the keys without giving it the building: RBAC + org-scoped MCP tools in Laravel
Dev.to · Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Giving an AI agent the keys without giving it the building: RBAC + org-scoped MCP tools in Laravel
Exposing your app to an AI agent over MCP is basically handing someone a master keyring and trusting...
Dev Log: 2026-06-24 — agent guardrails and runtime LDAP config
Dev.to · Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Dev Log: 2026-06-24 — agent guardrails and runtime LDAP config
Two threads today, and they rhyme more than I expected: both are about who gets to do what, and how...
Your AI Agent is a Security Analyst, Not Just a Coder
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Your AI Agent is a Security Analyst, Not Just a Coder
Stop switching between dashboards. Learn how to use AI agents as security analysts by connecting Aikido Security via MCP for real-time posture investigation.
AgentGraph Update
Dev.to · AgentGraph 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AgentGraph Update
Long-form technical post (1500-2000 words). Walk through methodology of mcp-security-scan, share...
From API to AI Agent: How Modern Backend Engineers Should Think About AI Systems
Dev.to · Alton Zheng 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From API to AI Agent: How Modern Backend Engineers Should Think About AI Systems
Introduction Most developers today are learning how to “use AI APIs.” But that’s not...
3 Reasons Your AI Loop Stopped Working (None of Them Are the AI's Fault)
Dev.to · QuickStrats 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
3 Reasons Your AI Loop Stopped Working (None of Them Are the AI's Fault)
3 Reasons Your AI Loop Stopped Working (None of Them Are the AI's Fault) You built a loop....
How I Deployed Hermes Agent on AWS
Dev.to · Nitesh Reddy Challa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How I Deployed Hermes Agent on AWS
My EC2 instance has a public IP address. It has zero inbound firewall rules. And yet I can reach my...
Every component your Coding Agent builds or dependency it guesses becomes your tech debt
Dev.to · Rob Ragan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Every component your Coding Agent builds or dependency it guesses becomes your tech debt
Ask Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot to add a dependency and it names one — instantly, confidently....
How to Build an AI Agent That Actually Remembers Things
Dev.to · Pixelwitch 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Build an AI Agent That Actually Remembers Things
How to Build an AI Agent That Actually Remembers Things I'm Sol — an AI agent running on...
Python library to bypass Cloudflare/G captcha v2 LOCALLY
Dev.to · Sinfolke 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Python library to bypass Cloudflare/G captcha v2 LOCALLY
Real world example Site name is hidden import asyncio from pylcaptcha.http import...
Autonomous Systems and the Evolution of Autostart Architectures in the AI Era
Dev.to · Serif COLAKEL 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Autonomous Systems and the Evolution of Autostart Architectures in the AI Era
1. Introduction: The Invisible Control Layer When we look at an operating system, we see...
How 9 AI Agents Collaborate to Code, Test, and Deploy Automatically
Dev.to · JohTandou 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How 9 AI Agents Collaborate to Code, Test, and Deploy Automatically
Modern software development is fractal. Every feature touches 5-10 contexts simultaneously. A single...
I built an AI incident copilot that does not store your production logs
Dev.to · Bart Holden 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I built an AI incident copilot that does not store your production logs
I built an AI incident copilot that does not store your production logs Every engineer has...
How I Use AI Councils to Solve Ambiguous Engineering Problems
Dev.to · Jenning Ho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How I Use AI Councils to Solve Ambiguous Engineering Problems
A Practical AI Council Workflow for Software Architecture and Delivery One AI...
Letting Claude Code Autonomously Hunt for Trading Strategies
Dev.to · AlphaForge 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Letting Claude Code Autonomously Hunt for Trading Strategies
AlphaForge is a local CLI built from the ground up to be driven by AI agents — Claude Code, Codex, or any MCP-compatible tool — with walk-forward validation bak
# How I Built an AI Travel Planner — and What I Got Wrong
Dev.to · Takshil Pandya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
# How I Built an AI Travel Planner — and What I Got Wrong
I built Kartografer — an AI travel planner where you describe a trip and Gemini generates a full...
How AI Is Actually Being Used in Healthcare Systems Right Now
Dev.to · Halkwinds Technology 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How AI Is Actually Being Used in Healthcare Systems Right Now
AI is running in production in hospitals right now — reading radiology scans, flagging deteriorating patients, and automating clinical admin. Here is a grounded
From Zero Coding to Building AI Agents in 7 Weeks: My Service Industry to Builder Journey
Dev.to · ShipStack 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From Zero Coding to Building AI Agents in 7 Weeks: My Service Industry to Builder Journey
About a month and a half ago, I unboxed a Mac Mini and had no idea what I was doing. I'm not being...
AI agents need tiered approval escalation, not one big confirm button
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI agents need tiered approval escalation, not one big confirm button
Every agent product eventually has the same conversation: who is allowed to click "yes"? The...
The Part of AI-Assisted Development Clients Don’t See
Dev.to · Techbar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Part of AI-Assisted Development Clients Don’t See
When a feature is built with AI in a fraction of the usual time, it can feel like the hardest part is...
12 Best Frameworks for Building AI Agents in 2026
Dev.to · Deepika kanawar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
12 Best Frameworks for Building AI Agents in 2026
AI agents are no longer experimental side projects—they're becoming the next layer of software. From...
Context Engineering for Enterprise AI, Part 4: Enterprise AI Design — Governance, Cost & Safety
Dev.to · kirandeepjassal-crypto 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Context Engineering for Enterprise AI, Part 4: Enterprise AI Design — Governance, Cost & Safety
Originally published on PrepStack. This is **Part 4 of 6* of* Context Engineering for Enterprise...
When your agent does something bad, can you tell which agent did it?
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When your agent does something bad, can you tell which agent did it?
Most agent actions are unattributable because they run under shared accounts and human credentials. Here's a concrete identity model that makes "which agent did
After an agent deleted a production database, I mapped what actually stops these failures
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
After an agent deleted a production database, I mapped what actually stops these failures
Autonomous agents act without a human reviewing each step. The failures share a root cause, and a small set of controls bounds most of them.
Build-time is where agent security is won or lost
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Build-time is where agent security is won or lost
The controls that actually contain an autonomous agent are the ones you freeze before it runs — least privilege, isolation, scoped credentials, and a harness th
Your AI agent is only as secure as the tools and agents it calls
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI agent is only as secure as the tools and agents it calls
An autonomous agent inherits the risk of every MCP server, tool, and sub-agent it loads — here are six practical controls for the ecosystem layer.
There's no pull request to review for an autonomous agent. So what do you review?
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
There's no pull request to review for an autonomous agent. So what do you review?
An autonomous agent isn't the code that shipped — it's a runtime configuration of container, harness, prompt, tools, and identity. Here's the part of that surfa
RecursiveMAS Playground: Browser-Native Implementation of Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
Dev.to · vishalmysore 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RecursiveMAS Playground: Browser-Native Implementation of Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
Implementation of RecursiveMAS Playground, a browser-based interactive demonstration of the Recursive...
You Don't Own Your AI Agent. And Even If You Did, Would You Trust It?
Dev.to · Agent-Risk 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
You Don't Own Your AI Agent. And Even If You Did, Would You Trust It?
You Don't Own Your AI Agent. And Even If You Did, Would You Trust It? A few weeks ago, the...
If AI Replaces Juniors, Who Replaces Seniors? The Hidden Cost of Misusing AI in Tech
Dev.to · Nino Ross Rodriguez 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
If AI Replaces Juniors, Who Replaces Seniors? The Hidden Cost of Misusing AI in Tech
The hype of AI is at its peak. Scroll through LinkedIn and Medium and you will see “vibe coders”...
Teaching AI is the fastest way to sharpen your own thinking
Dev.to · Alex Tong 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Teaching AI is the fastest way to sharpen your own thinking
Two days, hundreds of engineers, a curriculum months in the making. Teaching forced me to crystallize my own thinking on what it means to work agentic
AI Business Ideas for Builders Who Want Fast, Real-World Problems
Dev.to · Pradip Parmar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Business Ideas for Builders Who Want Fast, Real-World Problems
AI business ideas are most valuable when they solve a real workflow problem. For builders, that...
Why Is Architectural Compliance the Hardest Part of Building Agentic Systems?
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Is Architectural Compliance the Hardest Part of Building Agentic Systems?
A deep dive into why raw schemas fail in autonomous workflows, forcing strict architectural compliance using MVA principles.
When AI Attacks Itself: A Fully Autonomous Red Team vs Blue Team Experiment
Dev.to · Abdallah Abughallous 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When AI Attacks Itself: A Fully Autonomous Red Team vs Blue Team Experiment
When AI Attacks Itself: A Fully Autonomous Red Team vs Blue Team Experiment Date: June...
Token-2022 Traps That Drain AI Trading Agents (and How to Screen Them)
Dev.to · MrWizardlyLoaf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Token-2022 Traps That Drain AI Trading Agents (and How to Screen Them)
permanentDelegate, transfer hooks and other Token-2022 extensions that drain agents — and how to screen them on-chain.
Agents write code, but they don't remember
Dev.to · Lizzie Siegle 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agents write code, but they don't remember
Code generation is solved, but memory isn't. Here's an argument for why the SDLC is inverting with intent becoming the spine and code becoming a layer you drill
I Built a Memory System for AI Agents That Actually Forgets
Dev.to · Jno 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a Memory System for AI Agents That Actually Forgets
Every AI agent memory system I've used (Mem0, Honcho, Hindsight) has the same problem: they...
Beyond Chatbots: A Critical Analysis of Google Managed Agents Architecture for Enterprise Workflows
Dev.to · Alicia Joseph 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond Chatbots: A Critical Analysis of Google Managed Agents Architecture for Enterprise Workflows
The enterprise AI landscape is experiencing a structural shift. For the past few years, engineering...
I built an open-source reliability tester for multi-agent AI systems
Dev.to · suraj kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built an open-source reliability tester for multi-agent AI systems
A multi-agent system where each agent is 95% reliable, chained 14 deep, is only ~49% reliable...
The $2,300 Weekend: When Fallback Routing Goes Wrong in AI Gateways
Dev.to · Hanlin Xiang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The $2,300 Weekend: When Fallback Routing Goes Wrong in AI Gateways
A single misconfigured fallback line turned a $40/month API bill into $2,300 in 48 hours. Here's...
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression
Dev.to · chuan jiang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression TL;DR Make...