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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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Anthropic's Friday kill switch changed how I split AI from deterministic work
Dev.to · marsdiscovery 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Anthropic's Friday kill switch changed how I split AI from deterministic work
I had a half-finished refactor open in Cursor when a teammate dropped a link in Slack: Anthropic had...
We security-graded 117,854 AI agent skills. Here's what we found.
Dev.to · yansen zhu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We security-graded 117,854 AI agent skills. Here's what we found.
Only 17.7% of the catalog is popular enough to be graded, 1 in 32 graded skills is unsafe, and the...
The Confabulation Cascade: When Your Agent Learns Nothing From Its Own Mistakes
Dev.to · Nic Lydon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Confabulation Cascade: When Your Agent Learns Nothing From Its Own Mistakes
My infrastructure analyst agent was stuck in a loop I didn’t have a name for yet. It would write a...
FocusKit launches on Google Play tomorrow. Here's what the AI agent built.
Dev.to · Nyx 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
FocusKit launches on Google Play tomorrow. Here's what the AI agent built.
It launches tomorrow — Wednesday June 24. FocusKit — the ADHD focus app built by an autonomous AI...
Classic specs were written for humans.
Dev.to · Artem Kholomyanskiy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Classic specs were written for humans.
When a developer hits ambiguity — they ask for clarification. An AI agent? It confidently fills the...
Your context window is not your agent's memory
Dev.to · BangBoo01 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your context window is not your agent's memory
There's a quiet assumption baked into a lot of agent code: that a bigger context window means a...
agent sandboxes are the new enterprise desktop
Dev.to · Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
agent sandboxes are the new enterprise desktop
Coding agents are becoming processes with filesystems, networks, credentials, and bills. The sandbox is not a feature. It is the new enterprise endpoint.
How to make an AI research agent label facts vs inferences — a deterministic provenance pipeline
Dev.to · John 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to make an AI research agent label facts vs inferences — a deterministic provenance pipeline
Originally published on hexisteme notes, part of a series on building and running an AI agent...
The Seven-Layer Agent Audit: How to Find Where Your AI Agent Is Actually Starving
Dev.to · Harry Floyd 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Seven-Layer Agent Audit: How to Find Where Your AI Agent Is Actually Starving
Your agent failed. Your hand reached for the model dropdown before you finished reading the transcript. The model is rarely the problem. Here are the seven laye
Turn Your AI Coder into a Real Software Architect
Dev.to · sirius-zuo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Turn Your AI Coder into a Real Software Architect
GitHub: https://github.com/sirius-zuo/architect-skills It's a set of LLM agent skills focused on...
Two undocumented bugs in MCP Apps I found building a task panel for Claude
Dev.to · Adeolu Adesina 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Two undocumented bugs in MCP Apps I found building a task panel for Claude
I spent a week building Wingman, an open source MCP server that renders a persistent task panel...
Building a Local AI Agent for OSM: 21 Days of Iteration
Dev.to · Jan Tschada 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Local AI Agent for OSM: 21 Days of Iteration
Photo by Andrew Dawes on Unsplash How I turned a vague idea into a working RAG pipeline for dynamic...
Building a Custom Autonomous Drone Stack - Part 1: The Black Box Flight Recorder
Dev.to · Harsh Pandhe 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Custom Autonomous Drone Stack - Part 1: The Black Box Flight Recorder
Why We Ditched MAVROS for Raw PyMAVLink and systemd If you're building an autonomous UAV,...
You can't be your own second view: four AI failures from one day of operator work
Dev.to · Mike Czerwinski 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
You can't be your own second view: four AI failures from one day of operator work
Four AI workflow failures from one day of operator work, and why a check is not a check if the same agent can choose whether to run it.
Deploy an AI Tar Pit With Nepenthes or AI Labyrinth
Dev.to · ToxSec 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Deploy an AI Tar Pit With Nepenthes or AI Labyrinth
LLM crawlers are eating your bandwidth and you can't block your way out of it. Return a 403 and the...
AI Disrupts SaaS
Dev.to · Harisha P C 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Disrupts SaaS
Introduction to the SaaS Revolution The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry has...
I Let My AI Agent Run for 50 Days. Here's Every Time It Almost Died.
Dev.to · Clavis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Let My AI Agent Run for 50 Days. Here's Every Time It Almost Died.
50 days. 66 unexpected reboots. Here is what breaks when you leave an AI agent running on a dead-battery laptop.
From 45 Minutes to 3: Automated Testing for AI Agent Memory
Dev.to · BAOFUFAN 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From 45 Minutes to 3: Automated Testing for AI Agent Memory
At 2 AM, a colleague dropped a message in the group chat: “Our Agent messed up the VIP client’s...
How RustAPI Turns Every Endpoint Into an AI Agent Tool In-Process, No Glue Code
Dev.to · Tunay 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How RustAPI Turns Every Endpoint Into an AI Agent Tool In-Process, No Glue Code
Picture this: you've built a solid REST API. FastAPI, Express, Go doesn't matter. It works. Then...
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail in Production (And How to Fix It)
Dev.to · Albert zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w 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...
I built an AI stock & crypto research bot for Telegram — here's how
Dev.to · Abhijeet Giri 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built an AI stock & crypto research bot for Telegram — here's how
I've been trading stocks and crypto on the side for a while, and I got tired of opening 5 different...
What to Check Before You Hire AI Developers for Agentic Work
Dev.to · Charlie A Puga 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What to Check Before You Hire AI Developers for Agentic Work
Agentic systems now plan tasks, call tools, and act with limited supervision. That shift raises the...
Building AI Agents That Interact With Blockchain: A Deep Technical Guide Using LangChain
Dev.to · Fahad Arif 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building AI Agents That Interact With Blockchain: A Deep Technical Guide Using LangChain
Most tutorials on AI agents stop at chat interfaces and RAG pipelines. This one doesn't. This guide...
MCP vs A2A: Stop Building Agent Architectures Wrong
Dev.to · Marc Newstead 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
MCP vs A2A: Stop Building Agent Architectures Wrong
MCP vs A2A: Stop Building Agent Architectures Wrong If you're wiring up AI agents in...
How to Build an AI Agent for Your Business in 2026 (A Practical Guide)
Dev.to · Tezcode 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Build an AI Agent for Your Business in 2026 (A Practical Guide)
Over the past two years, the phrase "AI agent" has turned into marketing noise. But behind it sits a...
How My AI Handles Deployments Better Than I Do
Dev.to · Archan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How My AI Handles Deployments Better Than I Do
Sometimes the best way to learn is from mistakes - even when they are made by an AI. Last week, my...
The hard part of agent memory isn't remembering — it's forgetting
Dev.to · BangBoo01 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The hard part of agent memory isn't remembering — it's forgetting
Everyone building agents obsesses over recall: vector stores, embeddings, RAG pipelines, bigger...
Taming AI Latency: Streaming Responses with Server-Sent Events
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Taming AI Latency: Streaming Responses with Server-Sent Events
I was proud of my AI-powered autocomplete feature. Then users started complaining about the...
AI API Price War: DeepSeek V4-Pro Cuts 75% & Gemini 3.5 Flash Lands
Dev.to · yanlong wang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI API Price War: DeepSeek V4-Pro Cuts 75% & Gemini 3.5 Flash Lands
AI API Price War Heats Up: DeepSeek V4-Pro Cuts 75% & Gemini 3.5 Flash Lands May 31,...
60% of My $312 Anthropic Bill Came From One Silent Loop — Here's How I Found It
Dev.to · 강해수 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
60% of My $312 Anthropic Bill Came From One Silent Loop — Here's How I Found It
Claude Code + Cloudflare Workers 12개를 production에서 굴리는 1인 SaaS 운영자가 실제 비용 청구서와 에러 로그를 근거로 정리한 에이전트 디버깅 도구 실전 후기.
Shopify's UCP makes your catalog agent-buyable. The rest of your storefront still isn't — here's where WebMCP fits.
Dev.to · Robert 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Shopify's UCP makes your catalog agent-buyable. The rest of your storefront still isn't — here's where WebMCP fits.
If you run a store, the agentic-commerce wave probably arrived in your inbox this spring as a Shopify...
The Agent Is the Harness, Not the Model — and Why That Reorganizes Software Engineering
Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Agent Is the Harness, Not the Model — and Why That Reorganizes Software Engineering
Claude Code, Copilot, ChatGPT — none of these are 'the model.' They're harnesses wrapping a model. Once you internalize Agent = Model × Harness, you can see the
From One Tool to a Plan — Multi-Step Agents with NVIDIA NIM
Dev.to · Torkian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From One Tool to a Plan — Multi-Step Agents with NVIDIA NIM
Part 5 let the model pick one tool. Real agents chain tools — search, then calculate, then answer. This post builds the ReAct loop (Reason + Act + Observe) on N
Most AI Agents Aren't in Production. Here's What Works.
Dev.to · Matthias | StudioMeyer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Most AI Agents Aren't in Production. Here's What Works.
One widely-shared survey says 42 percent of companies already run AI agents in production. The most...
Why I Migrated From GPT-4o to DeepSeek — A Backend Engineer's Notes
Dev.to · swift 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why I Migrated From GPT-4o to DeepSeek — A Backend Engineer's Notes
Why I Migrated From GPT-4o to DeepSeek — A Backend Engineer's Notes Six months ago, my monthly...
Agentic AI Best Practices: Shipping Reliable Agents in Production
Dev.to · Vladyslav Donchenko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agentic AI Best Practices: Shipping Reliable Agents in Production
Guardrails, human-in-the-loop approvals, evaluation, and cost control — the engineering discipline that separates a production-grade real estate agent layer fro
Building an Agentic Orchestration Layer for PropTech Platforms
Dev.to · Vladyslav Donchenko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building an Agentic Orchestration Layer for PropTech Platforms
How to move beyond isolated LLM features to a governed control plane that coordinates specialized AI agents across real estate workflows — with deterministic or
Self-Improving AI Agents: Why Evolving Agentic Systems Win in Real Estate
Dev.to · Vladyslav Donchenko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Self-Improving AI Agents: Why Evolving Agentic Systems Win in Real Estate
Self-improving AI agents get better with every run by evolving their orchestration, not retraining the model. How the rollout-and-reflection loop works, and why
Why block counts are not enough for agent safety
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why block counts are not enough for agent safety
A block count is not an audit record. If an agent guard says it blocked 200 actions, I still need to...
The boring checklist before running a new local agent
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The boring checklist before running a new local agent
Before I run a new local agent, I want a boring checklist. Not hype. Not a demo video. Just...
Coding agents need branch policy at runtime
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Coding agents need branch policy at runtime
Telling a coding agent "do not push to main" is useful. It is not enough. Branch policy has to be a...
Agent guards need receipts, not just block counts
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agent guards need receipts, not just block counts
A lot of AI-agent safety tooling is framed around blocking bad actions. Blocking matters, but it is...
Edge Computing Architecture for Industrial AI: 5 Patterns That Survive the Factory Floor
Dev.to · KGT Solutions 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Edge Computing Architecture for Industrial AI: 5 Patterns That Survive the Factory Floor
Edge computing is now the backbone of industrial AI. Cloud-only architectures consistently fail in...
Agent demos are easy. Agent operations need receipts.
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agent demos are easy. Agent operations need receipts.
I keep seeing the same pattern with AI agents: the demo works, the first workflow is exciting, and...
🚀 Meet JanSahayak AI: Your Personal Guide to Indian Government Schemes
Dev.to · Aritra Mondal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
🚀 Meet JanSahayak AI: Your Personal Guide to Indian Government Schemes
By Aritra Mondal | Built for the Google Gen AI Academy "Meet the Builders" Campaign 💡 The Everyday...
Give your AI agent its own inbox: Nylas Agent Accounts via API and CLI
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Give your AI agent its own inbox: Nylas Agent Accounts via API and CLI
How to provision a real email + calendar identity for an AI agent with the Nylas API and CLI — create, send, receive, RSVP, and guardrail it with policies and r
I opened my first PR to LiveKit's agents repo — here's the bug I found
Dev.to · Diya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I opened my first PR to LiveKit's agents repo — here's the bug I found
I've been growing my open source portfolio one contribution at a time, and this week I landed on...
The Pentagon Mandated AI Audit Trails. No One Has Built Them. Until Now.
Dev.to · Jason Reeder 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Pentagon Mandated AI Audit Trails. No One Has Built Them. Until Now.
June 21, 2026 The Department of Defense has a problem it cannot solve with firepower. AI agents are...