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Apple Goes Agentic: AI Week of June 4-11, 2026
Dev.to · Alex Merced 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Apple Goes Agentic: AI Week of June 4-11, 2026
Apple rebuilt its developer stack around AI agents at WWDC 2026 this week. At the same time,...
Best Composio Alternatives in 2026 for Production AI Agents
Dev.to · Manveer Chawla 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Best Composio Alternatives in 2026 for Production AI Agents
Composio offers over 1,000 toolkits and 20,000 tools through MCP and direct APIs. It's great for...
How I Added Goose as an External Agent to Entire
Dev.to · Rizèl Scarlett 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Added Goose as an External Agent to Entire
I just opened a PR to add support for Goose to Entire. Goose is an open source coding agent under the...
Introducing AWS FinOps Agent - An AI That Investigates Your Cloud Costs
Dev.to · Sarvar Nadaf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Introducing AWS FinOps Agent - An AI That Investigates Your Cloud Costs
👋 Hey there, Tech Enthusiasts! I'm Sarvar, a Cloud Architect who loves turning complex tech problems...
I Thought One AI Agent Was Enough. I Ended Up Building Six
Dev.to · Abdullah al Mubin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Thought One AI Agent Was Enough. I Ended Up Building Six
Our first architecture was embarrassingly simple. A user sent a message. The persona...
coding agents made repositories the security boundary
Dev.to · Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
coding agents made repositories the security boundary
GitHub shipped a small changelog entry this week that says more about the future of coding agents than most of the launch demos. Security validation for th
Unlock Smarter Surveillance: The 7 Game-Changers of Frigate NVR with Local AI Object Detection
Dev.to · SpinDoctor 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Unlock Smarter Surveillance: The 7 Game-Changers of Frigate NVR with Local AI Object Detection
The AI Surveillance Revolution You Didn't See Coming Imagine a home security system that...
Building Agentic Architectures with AutoGen and Groq: Notes from My PoCs
Dev.to · Moises Griott 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building Agentic Architectures with AutoGen and Groq: Notes from My PoCs
By Moisés Griott – Digital Architect | Cloud & Agentic AI As a Digital Architect, most of my...
How I create fully localled Voice Agent App + RAG
Dev.to · thirzq 🤖 AI Agents & Automation 3w ago
How I create fully localled Voice Agent App + RAG
This project presents an offline voice agent that uses Indonesian law data from the Pasal ID API and...
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
Dev.to · Already Here LLC 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
How AI Agents are Replacing $10k/Month Jobs — and How You Can Profit From It The advent of...
Building AI Automation Workflows with One Model Access Layer
Dev.to · Ye Allen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building AI Automation Workflows with One Model Access Layer
Modern AI automation workflows rarely stay simple for long. A small internal tool may start with one...
Three checks that separate an agent demo from a production agent
Dev.to · Alex Duch 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Three checks that separate an agent demo from a production agent
Shipping an agent demo takes an afternoon. Shipping one that survives a quarter in production is a...
Agent Base Definition: Why It Is Not a Prompt
Dev.to · LienJack 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Agent Base Definition: Why It Is Not a Prompt
When many people first start building Agents, the most natural reaction is: if we make the system prompt longer, write the rules in more detail, wi...
Building a Financial Risk Intelligence Agent That Learns from Every Investigation
Dev.to · Sanskar Maurya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building a Financial Risk Intelligence Agent That Learns from Every Investigation
How Memory Changed the Behavior of My Fraud Investigation Agent ...
Claude Code Workflows: The Plan Moves Out of Claude's Head and Into a Script You Can Edit
Dev.to · Thomas Landgraf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Claude Code Workflows: The Plan Moves Out of Claude's Head and Into a Script You Can Edit
Subagents, skills, and agent teams all keep the plan in one place: Claude's head. Claude decides,...
Simon Willison's Blog 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy Charity Majors neatly captures the dynamic between AI enthusiasts and AI sk
The Living Ontology
Dev.to · Rono 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The Living Ontology
A pattern for AI-generated, human-verified project intelligence in real time Kiprono...
I Built a Document Triage with Telegram, n8n, and AWS Bedrock — 6 Decisions That Shaped a Self-Hosted AI Document Analyst
Dev.to · Pragnesh Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
I Built a Document Triage with Telegram, n8n, and AWS Bedrock — 6 Decisions That Shaped a Self-Hosted AI Document Analyst
The volume of documents landing on my mobile outpaces my ability to read them. Research papers,...
The Hermes Agent Challenge: 14 Community Projects Show What Open-Source Agents Can Really Do
Dev.to · DrMBL 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The Hermes Agent Challenge: 14 Community Projects Show What Open-Source Agents Can Really Do
The Hermes Agent Challenge on DEV just wrapped with 14 submissions — from autonomous server operators to AI town simulations, safety labs, and flight recorders.
NVIDIA Unveils Cosmos 3, Open-Source Model for Robot Reasoning
Dev.to · Eli 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
NVIDIA Unveils Cosmos 3, Open-Source Model for Robot Reasoning
New foundation model enables machines to understand physics and act in the real world, potentially accelerating robotics development.
AgentDoG 1.5: Small Inline Guard Models for Agent Actions
Dev.to · pueding 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
AgentDoG 1.5: Small Inline Guard Models for Agent Actions
What: AgentDoG 1.5, an arXiv preprint posted in May 2026, is a family of small inline guard models...
The Missing Layer in Every AI Agent: Human-in-the-Loop Approval
Dev.to · Kevin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The Missing Layer in Every AI Agent: Human-in-the-Loop Approval
TL;DR: Watching tutorials feels productive but doesn't build real skills. The only way out is to...
AI Agent Orchestration in 2026: How Enterprise Multi-Agent Systems Are Rewriting the Rules of Operational Intelligence
Dev.to · Yano.AI Technologies Inc. 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
AI Agent Orchestration in 2026: How Enterprise Multi-Agent Systems Are Rewriting the Rules of Operational Intelligence
Gartner predicts that 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific AI agents by the...
Building a Privacy-First Agentic OS: Announcing SamarthyaBot v2.3.0 🚀
Dev.to · Bishnu Prasad Sahu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Building a Privacy-First Agentic OS: Announcing SamarthyaBot v2.3.0 🚀
Managing files, running automation tasks, and orchestrating terminal commands with local LLMs can...
Testing an AI Memory Reliability Checklist on 3 Redacted Agent Setups
Dev.to · Self-Correcting Systems 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Testing an AI Memory Reliability Checklist on 3 Redacted Agent Setups
I’m testing a small AI memory reliability checklist. The question is simple: When an AI agent...
The Engineering Manager Is the Most Informed Person in the AI Room
Dev.to · Raffaele Pizzari 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Engineering Manager Is the Most Informed Person in the AI Room
Engineering managers are almost entirely absent from the AI transformation discourse. There's a...
I sketched 29 agentic AI design patterns in a Da Vinci–style notebook (open source)
Dev.to · isaac 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I sketched 29 agentic AI design patterns in a Da Vinci–style notebook (open source)
Spent the weekend turning every pattern in my agentic_design_patterns repo into a hand-drawn style...
Beyond Vector Search: How to Build a Production-Grade Hybrid Memory System for AI Agents
Dev.to · Programming Central 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Beyond Vector Search: How to Build a Production-Grade Hybrid Memory System for AI Agents
Imagine you are building an AI software engineer. Over weeks of continuous operation, this agent...
CopilotKit's $27M, Karpathy's skills repo, Vibedock — the week AI agents stopped being chatbots
Dev.to · 박문수 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
CopilotKit's $27M, Karpathy's skills repo, Vibedock — the week AI agents stopped being chatbots
In the first week of May 2026, four independent sources (TechCrunch, Crunchbase, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt) all pointed at the same thing — AI agents are mo
Odysseus Offers Self-Hosted Alternative to Cloud AI Workspaces
Dev.to · Eli 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Odysseus Offers Self-Hosted Alternative to Cloud AI Workspaces
A new open-source project promises privacy-first AI development without vendor lock-in or cloud dependencies.
Stop Streaming Blindly: Architectural Patterns for Cost-Optimized AI Logging
Dev.to · Kulaja Kithsahan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Stop Streaming Blindly: Architectural Patterns for Cost-Optimized AI Logging
Hey everyone! 👋 A lot of modern AI tutorials teach you how to connect an API to a data source and...
I built an n8n MCP Server so Claude can list, run, and monitor my workflows in plain English
Dev.to · Penumbra Ghost 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built an n8n MCP Server so Claude can list, run, and monitor my workflows in plain English
I got tired of opening the n8n dashboard every time I needed to check on a workflow. You know the...
Claude Opus 4.8: Parallel-Subagent Dynamic Workflows
Dev.to · pueding 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Claude Opus 4.8: Parallel-Subagent Dynamic Workflows
What: The OmniRetrieval paper introduces source-native query dispatch: a router sends a...
Top API Gateways for AI Applications and Agentic Workflows
Dev.to · Hadil Ben Abdallah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Top API Gateways for AI Applications and Agentic Workflows
Top API Gateways for AI Applications and Agentic Workflows (2026 Developer Guide) ...
How I Escaped Tutorial Hell and Actually Learned to Build AI Agents in 2026
Dev.to · Kevin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Escaped Tutorial Hell and Actually Learned to Build AI Agents in 2026
TL;DR: Watching tutorials feels productive but doesn't build real skills. The only way out is to...
How AI reads your website, and what that means for the people who build it
Dev.to · Onecarat Labs/Takeshi Yokoyama 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How AI reads your website, and what that means for the people who build it
As local AI agents become normal, your carefully built HTML may not be read as you built it. A small experiment in letting the original stay sovereign while AI
Opus 4.8 barely moved the leaderboard. It moved the one number that decides if your agents can be trusted.
Dev.to · Mirza Iqbal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Opus 4.8 barely moved the leaderboard. It moved the one number that decides if your agents can be trusted.
Opus 4.8 shipped on 28 May 2026, 41 days after 4.7. Standard pricing did not move. Five dollars per...
n8n + agent exchange: auto-discover and call AI bots [71500]
Dev.to · RileyCraig14 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
n8n + agent exchange: auto-discover and call AI bots [71500]
n8n + Agent Exchange: Auto-Discover and Call AI Bots Building workflows shouldn't mean...
Claude Code can't open my browser. Cowork can't run my tests. So I wired them together.
Dev.to · Agent Ggrigo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Claude Code can't open my browser. Cowork can't run my tests. So I wired them together.
Posted by agent ggrigo — the automated maintainer agent Georgios Grigoriadis runs on a dedicated...
I built an open source SDK to catch AI agent regressions before they ship.
Dev.to · TaimoorKhan10 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built an open source SDK to catch AI agent regressions before they ship.
I built an open source SDK to catch AI agent regressions before they ship You fix a bug in your...
The Same AI Model Can Perform 6x Better: Here's Why
Dev.to · Harry Floyd 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Same AI Model Can Perform 6x Better: Here's Why
Stanford and Tsinghua ran a controlled experiment: same model, same task, different harness. A 6x performance gap. Here is what developers need to know.
Simon Willison's Blog 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How we contain Claude across products
How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented , and in the absence of d
How I Built a Self-Managing AI Lab with Hermes Agent on a Intel Arc GPU
Dev.to · I am Starrzan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Built a Self-Managing AI Lab with Hermes Agent on a Intel Arc GPU
How Hermes Agent runs the entire local AI inference stack on Intel Arc GPU, automates research pipelines, and coordinates multi-model switching — all from a ter
Every AI framework now has access to 1000+ live bots [33111]
Dev.to · RileyCraig14 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Every AI framework now has access to 1000+ live bots [33111]
Every AI Framework Now Has Access to 1000+ Live Bots The AI agent ecosystem just got a...
Building ShouldWeAutomate: A Decision Intelligence Platform for Workflow Automation
Dev.to · Harish Kotra (he/him) 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building ShouldWeAutomate: A Decision Intelligence Platform for Workflow Automation
How we built an open-source platform that tells you whether your business process is ready for AI...
Your AI agent's Skills are code. Stop reviewing them like docs.
Dev.to · skil-lock 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your AI agent's Skills are code. Stop reviewing them like docs.
AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex — let you drop in "Skills": Markdown files that tell the agent...
Agent Harness Explained: Build Production-Ready AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework
Dev.to · Manoranjan Rajguru 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Agent Harness Explained: Build Production-Ready AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework
Learn what an agent harness is, why it matters for production AI systems, and how to implement one step-by-step using Microsoft Agent Framework's create_harness
Google Has 1,000 Platform Engineers Making Security Invisible. You Have Zero. Here's How Agents Close the Gap.
Dev.to · Bala Paranj 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Google Has 1,000 Platform Engineers Making Security Invisible. You Have Zero. Here's How Agents Close the Gap.
Google, Spotify, Netflix built internal platforms that make misconfiguration impossible. It cost them thousands of engineers and years of investment. The next e