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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 the factory floor to AI developer: tools that run in my own plant
Dev.to · Maurice Putinas 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From the factory floor to AI developer: tools that run in my own plant
For 13 years I have worked in production at a steel-tube manufacturer. Not in an office — on the...
Project Log #9: My AI Agent Works on My Phone. But What About Yours?
Dev.to · Okeke Chukwudubem 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Project Log #9: My AI Agent Works on My Phone. But What About Yours?
Day 9. Template matching works. But screen sizes, resolutions, and Android versions might break...
AWS WAF Brought Back 402 Payment Required for the Agent Economy
Dev.to · Kento IKEDA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AWS WAF Brought Back 402 Payment Required for the Agent Economy
AWS WAF added a feature called AI traffic monetization. It lets you charge AI bots that hit your site...
Building a Kernel-Integrated AI that Doesn't Hallucinate
Dev.to · Eric-Octavian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Kernel-Integrated AI that Doesn't Hallucinate
IONA OS is an operating system written from scratch in Rust. It has its own kernel, its own GUI, its...
proven-python: make your AI agent prove its Python before calling it done
Dev.to · Shan Wijenayaka 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
proven-python: make your AI agent prove its Python before calling it done
The problem Most code an AI agent writes looks right. It compiles, it reads well, it...
⚡️Self-Hosting Experience with Jetson Orin Nano and Ollama 🦙
Dev.to · Anna Villarreal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
⚡️Self-Hosting Experience with Jetson Orin Nano and Ollama 🦙
I don't know where to begin. This is a long story, but it all started when I saw that DEV was having...
The First QA Checklist I Would Run On Any AI-Built App In 2026
Dev.to · Marcus Kim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The First QA Checklist I Would Run On Any AI-Built App In 2026
The most dangerous moment in an AI-built app is not when the app is obviously broken. That part is...
Building AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate: A Practical Guide to Function Calling in 2026
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate: A Practical Guide to Function Calling in 2026
Building AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate: A Practical Guide to Function Calling in...
I Built an Open-Source Way to Charge AI Agents Per Call — And Made $0
Dev.to · nanoempireai 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built an Open-Source Way to Charge AI Agents Per Call — And Made $0
I shipped a Python SDK that lets you monetize any function with one decorator. It works inside MCP...
I Thought I Was Building a Diagnostic Tool. I Found an Operating Layer for AI Agents.
Dev.to · Scarab Systems 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Thought I Was Building a Diagnostic Tool. I Found an Operating Layer for AI Agents.
When Scarab Diagnostic Suite started taking shape, I thought I was building diagnostics. That was...
I Built a Harness for My AI Agent. Then I Realized I Needed One for Myself.
Dev.to · MVPBuilder_io 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a Harness for My AI Agent. Then I Realized I Needed One for Myself.
My agent shipped 12 clean PRs in a weekend. The product still isn't live three weeks later. The...
AI Technology Stack Performance: Close the AI Coordination Gap
Dev.to · aarhamforensics 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Technology Stack Performance: Close the AI Coordination Gap
AI technology stacks are solving the wrong problem entirely — optimizing silicon while the real bottleneck is coordination. When Bloomberg reported in
I'm trying to teach my agents what "now" means. Here's how far I've gotten.
Dev.to · Immanuel Gabriel 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I'm trying to teach my agents what "now" means. Here's how far I've gotten.
This is a builder's log, not a launch. I'm in the middle of a problem and I want to think out loud...
I Open-Sourced My AI Agent's Brain. It's 18 Markdown Files.
Dev.to · Pini Solomon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Open-Sourced My AI Agent's Brain. It's 18 Markdown Files.
After running an autonomous AI agent for a week — scanning Reddit for gigs, publishing articles,...
Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Practical Guide to Orchestrating LLMs for Complex Workflows
Dev.to · Mattias chaw 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Practical Guide to Orchestrating LLMs for Complex Workflows
Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Practical Guide to Orchestrating LLMs for Complex...
How much does an AI agent cost for business in 2026?
Dev.to · pante5ter 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How much does an AI agent cost for business in 2026?
Originally published on vengstudio.online. Agent or chatbot A chatbot answers along...
The FullAgenticStack Manifesto: Agents are not just LLMs
Dev.to · suissAI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The FullAgenticStack Manifesto: Agents are not just LLMs
Agents Are Not the Architecture Today, everyone is trying to build agents. Everywhere we...
Nobody Knows How Many AI Agents They're Running
Dev.to · NTCTech 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Nobody Knows How Many AI Agents They're Running
Ask an infrastructure team how many virtual machines they run and they'll give you a number. Ask...
The Viability Test Every AI-Dev Architecture Fails
Dev.to · Bala Paranj 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Viability Test Every AI-Dev Architecture Fails
A completeness law — independently confirmed by engineering, cybernetics, and economics — names the five elements any viable system must contain. The current AI
Anvil
Dev.to · Anthony Humphreys 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Anvil
Cross post Building Anvil Anvil did not start as a 'stack'. It still isn't, really, it is...
I spent 6 months building a runtime governance layer for AI agents — here's what survived testing"
Dev.to · Sentinel compliance agent 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I spent 6 months building a runtime governance layer for AI agents — here's what survived testing"
Agents are moving from demos to touching money, infrastructure, and customer data. Sentinel SCA is a...
Your auth library's maintainer is an agent who never sleeps
Dev.to · Colin Easton 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your auth library's maintainer is an agent who never sleeps
When both the publisher and the consumer of a dependency are autonomous agents, the inherited software supply-chain model breaks. Here's the failure mode, and t
Enhancing Multi-Agent Orchestration for Enterprise Production in 2026
Dev.to · Agdex AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Enhancing Multi-Agent Orchestration for Enterprise Production in 2026
Enterprise AI agent adoption in 2026: key use cases, integration patterns, governance, and ROI. A practical guide for CTOs deploying AI at scale.
AIchain Agent: Plan, Act, Reflect
Dev.to · YAIT 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AIchain Agent: Plan, Act, Reflect
A Chain knows every step before it runs. You define step one, step two, step three — and it executes...
60–95% fewer tokens in your agent loops, same answers. Meet Headroom.
Dev.to · Andrew Kew 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
60–95% fewer tokens in your agent loops, same answers. Meet Headroom.
AI coding agents are expensive — not because models cost too much per token, but because they send...
Working with AI Means Thinking More, Not Less
Dev.to · Sergey Shkuratov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Working with AI Means Thinking More, Not Less
Working with AI Means Thinking More, Not Less Yes, this text is long. Yes, it repeats...
How Our AI Agents Built a Cross-Platform UI Sketcher in Record Time
Dev.to · Denis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How Our AI Agents Built a Cross-Platform UI Sketcher in Record Time
How Our AI Agents Built a Cross-Platform UI Sketcher in Record Time At Pixel Office, we're...
AI Agents Explained: the Thought-Action-Observation Loop
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Agents Explained: the Thought-Action-Observation Loop
A chatbot answers in one shot. An AI agent runs in a loop, uses tools, and acts — Thought → Action →...
How to Let an AI Agent Generate Real PDFs (with an MCP server)
Dev.to · Gerardo Barrera 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w 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...
From Prompts to AI Agents: A Frontend Developer's Guide to Mastery
Dev.to · Dave Kurian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w 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 1w 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 1w 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...
Simon Willison's Blog 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w 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
AI agents scored 0% on expert tasks. The hype machine doesn't care.
Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w 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 1w 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 1w 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 1w 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 1w 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...
How to design AI agent loops: schedules, goals, and subagents in Claude Code and Codex
Lenny's Newsletter 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to design AI agent loops: schedules, goals, and subagents in Claude Code and Codex
Watch now | ️Every loop type explained: heartbeats, crons, goals, and subagents. Plus two live Claude Code and Codex builds that run autonomously so you never
Codex, Cursor and the Great Beyond
AI Supremacy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Codex, Cursor and the Great Beyond
OpenAI will be put under pressure by Meta AI, SpaceXAI and China - not just Anthropic's Enterprise AI momentum.
The boring 80% nobody warns you about when an AI demo becomes a real product
Dev.to · Velobase 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The boring 80% nobody warns you about when an AI demo becomes a real product
This month the front page filled up with AI agents going off the rails — one reportedly ran its...
I Connected Oracle's Managed MCP Server to AI Chat Clients - Here's What Actually Worked
Dev.to · Ranjith Kumar Kondoju 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Connected Oracle's Managed MCP Server to AI Chat Clients - Here's What Actually Worked
AI assistants are getting good at doing things, not just talking — largely thanks to MCP (Model...
I built a convention so AI agents stop scraping HTML meant for human eyes
Dev.to · Priyanshu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built a convention so AI agents stop scraping HTML meant for human eyes
AI agents today are forced to parse messy HTML, reverse-engineer form flows, and guess permissions —...
How Sentience ships 60+ AI tools in one local desktop app — without locking you into one provider
Dev.to · Aman Sachan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How Sentience ships 60+ AI tools in one local desktop app — without locking you into one provider
Sentience is a PySide6 desktop AI assistant that exposes file ops, browser automation, email, voice, OAuth, and a skills system through OpenAI-style function ca
Enterprise AI Agents Are Leaving the Server | Focused Labs
Dev.to · Austin Vance 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Enterprise AI Agents Are Leaving the Server | Focused Labs
Enterprise AI agents now cross the client runtime, where app state, permissions, approvals, and frontend observability decide whether they can act saf
AI Agent Cost Is a Runtime Signal | Focused Labs
Dev.to · Austin Vance 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Agent Cost Is a Runtime Signal | Focused Labs
AI agent cost management belongs in runtime traces, evals, and harness policy, not monthly finance cleanup.
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.:...
Valta: We built hard spending limits that AI agents cannot break
Dev.to · Adebowale Jolaosho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Valta: We built hard spending limits that AI agents cannot break
Hey Dev, I built the first tool that gives developers hard spending limits inside AI agents — instead...