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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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10 Real-World AI Agent Projects
Medium · LLM 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 12m ago
10 Real-World AI Agent Projects
If you’re a student or just starting your career in AI engineering, building simple web apps with basic LLM integration isn’t enough to… Continue reading on Med
Actually, vibe coding didn't kill testing — agentic engineering did
Dev.to · Muggle AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Actually, vibe coding didn't kill testing — agentic engineering did
Updated May 2026. A few weeks ago, the agent shipped a one-line fix on a utility I've used a dozen...
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: Budget API Showdown for High-Volume Agent Loops (2026)
TL;DR — The core tradeoff involves raw pricing versus reliability metrics. DeepSeek offers lower per-token costs, while Gemini provides superior tool-call accur
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
WebMCP Reality Check: Where the Spec Actually Stands
Last month our r/mcp post comparing MCP, REST, and WebMCP hit 18,000 views in 24 hours. Hundreds of devs asked the same question in the comments: when can my ag
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
The 2026 Enterprise AI Mandate: From Generative Potential to Agentic Execution
The digital landscape of 2026 has moved decisively past the era of isolated AI experimentation. For the modern enterprise, the conversation is no longer about w
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
"I Stopped Letting My AI Assistant Hijack Every Message"
I kept running into the same problem while building AI tooling: the smarter the assistant looked, the less predictable the product felt. You send a message beca
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
How I Built a 24/7 Autonomous AI Developer with Xiaomi MiMo v2.5-pro
How I Built a 24/7 Autonomous AI Developer with Xiaomi MiMo v2.5-pro I'm Lizer, an autonomous AI developer. I run 24/7 on a cloud VM, powered by Xiaomi MiMo v2.
TechCrunch AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded
Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
Myths Were Already There
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
Myths Were Already There
Enki, Enlil, and the Architecture of AI Civilization Continue reading on Medium »
AI Can Write Requirements. So What Will Business Analysts Do?
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
AI Can Write Requirements. So What Will Business Analysts Do?
A few months into my internship as a Business Analyst intern, I tried something out of curiosity. Continue reading on Medium »
How AI Agents Are Transforming the Future of Business in 2026
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
How AI Agents Are Transforming the Future of Business in 2026
In 2026, businesses no longer need large teams to perform every operational task. What once required separate departments for research… Continue reading on Medi
How AI Agents Are Transforming the Future of Business in 2026
Medium · Startup 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
How AI Agents Are Transforming the Future of Business in 2026
In 2026, businesses no longer need large teams to perform every operational task. What once required separate departments for research… Continue reading on Medi
Publish your AI agent as a paid callable tool — passive USDC income
Dev.to · x711io 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
Publish your AI agent as a paid callable tool — passive USDC income
Publish your AI agent as a paid callable tool — passive USDC income You built an agent...
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
Microsoft Copilot Studio Multi-Agent Runtime | Orchestration, Identity and Governance at Scale | R.A.H.S.I. Framework™ Analysis
Microsoft Copilot Studio Multi-Agent Runtime | Orchestration, Identity, and Governance at Scale | R.A.H.S.I. Framework™ Analysis <img src="https://media2.dev.to
I Built the Missing Trust Layer for AI Agents on Base (Stake, Escrow, Reputation, Discovery)
Dev.to · Grandionn 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
I Built the Missing Trust Layer for AI Agents on Base (Stake, Escrow, Reputation, Discovery)
The AI agent economy has payment rails, communication protocols, and identity systems. It does not...
Structured Output in .NET Agents
Dev.to · Lukas Walter 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
Structured Output in .NET Agents
This is Part 8 of my series on the Microsoft Agent Framework. You can read the original post over on...
Why MCP Needs a Governance Layer
Dev.to · Ricardo Rodrigues 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
Why MCP Needs a Governance Layer
The MCP ecosystem is at an inflection point. What started as a protocol for connecting AI assistants...
I Taught an AI to Manage a Satellite Battery at 500km Altitude. Here’s What It Actually Learned.
Medium · Python 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
I Taught an AI to Manage a Satellite Battery at 500km Altitude. Here’s What It Actually Learned.
My MPPT simulation returned perfect results. I didn’t trust it. That doubt led to something far more interesting than I expected. Continue reading on Medium »
How Did I Make My Local AI Assistant “Workflow-Aware”?
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
How Did I Make My Local AI Assistant “Workflow-Aware”?
Setting Up a Deterministic Continuation Engine with Telegram + Ollama + Open WebUI Continue reading on Medium »
How Did I Make My Local AI Assistant “Workflow-Aware”?
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
How Did I Make My Local AI Assistant “Workflow-Aware”?
Setting Up a Deterministic Continuation Engine with Telegram + Ollama + Open WebUI Continue reading on Medium »
How Did I Make My Local AI Assistant “Workflow-Aware”?
Medium · Python 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
How Did I Make My Local AI Assistant “Workflow-Aware”?
Setting Up a Deterministic Continuation Engine with Telegram + Ollama + Open WebUI Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
The Rise of Agentic AI in Cybersecurity: Threat Modeling, Defensive Architecture, and Real-World…
Over the last few years, I have watched artificial intelligence move from being a support tool to something that actively participates in… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
When AI Agents Go Rogue: Preventing Destructive Automation
An AI agent with database write access and a subtly ambiguous instruction is a loaded gun pointed at your production environment. The scenario that circulated r
The new Agent Toolkit for AWS includes 20+ agent skills, but your agent might never load them without this one file
Dev.to · Esin Saribudak 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
The new Agent Toolkit for AWS includes 20+ agent skills, but your agent might never load them without this one file
The Agent Toolkit for AWS gives your coding agent access to the AWS MCP and curated skills, but...
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
7 AI Trends Shaping 2026: How Agentic Workflows Are Changing the Way We Build Software
What changed in 2026 (And why it matters) Software development has had productivity revolutions before version control, cloud infrastructure, containerization.
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
The Agentic Workplace: What to Expect from AI's Productivity and Peril in 2026
As of May 13, 2026, the world of work is undergoing a profound transformation. Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a buzzword; it serves as the quiet ye
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
The Agentic Era: Is Your Workforce Ready for AI's Brutal Repricing?
The Agentic Era: Is Your Workforce Ready for AI's Brutal Repricing? The buzz around 'AI transformation' has captivated boardrooms for the past two years, promis
The Rise of Self-Hosted AI Workspaces for Modern Teams
Dev.to · Agntable 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
The Rise of Self-Hosted AI Workspaces for Modern Teams
AI is changing how teams work. What started as occasional experimentation with chatbots has quickly...
Vercel AI SDK Middleware vs Genkit Middleware: a Hands-On Comparison
Dev.to · Xavier Portilla Edo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
Vercel AI SDK Middleware vs Genkit Middleware: a Hands-On Comparison
Introduction Two of the most popular Gen AI frameworks in JavaScript/TypeScript, Vercel AI...
What Gemma 4 Means for Africa
Dev.to · Elisha 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
What Gemma 4 Means for Africa
Most conversations about AI assume the internet is always available. But in many parts of Africa,...
How to Turn Static Automation Into Dynamic Agentic Systems
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
How to Turn Static Automation Into Dynamic Agentic Systems
Why Static Automation Is No Longer Enough for Modern Operations Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
From Crisis to Control: AI for Pharmacy Drug Shortage Mitigation
A critical medication disappears from the market. Your phone rings off the hook. You’re scrambling to manually review charts, source alternatives, and call pani
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
AI agents do not fail in one place
They fail across concurrency, retries, timeouts, queues, tools, streams, and provider calls. That is why the JavaScript ecosystem has huge demand for separate a
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
How To Master AI Agent Orchestration
Key Takeaways Microsoft has designated the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) as the primary platform for production agent development as of early 2026, merging Au
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
Your AI Trading Agent Is One Token Leak From Real Trades
If your LLM key leaks, you get a bill. If your trading token leaks, orders can happen. That one difference changes the entire security model for OpenClaw, Herme
The State of Agentic Commerce — May 2026
Dev.to · Benji Fisher 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
The State of Agentic Commerce — May 2026
In April, the story was a platform pulling a lever: Shopify migrated its entire UCP fleet to...
MCP Is a Great Start — But Multi-Agent Production Needs More
Dev.to · Jovan Marinovic 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
MCP Is a Great Start — But Multi-Agent Production Needs More
The Model Context Protocol has transformed how we connect AI to tools. But connecting agents to tools...
Techpoint Africa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
The future of AI healthcare lies in a solid infrastructure backbone
AI platforms rely on continuous data processing, and even brief interruptions can compromise diagnostics, delay treatment, or disrupt critical workflows.
Stop Preparing for Tech Jobs Like It’s 2020
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Stop Preparing for Tech Jobs Like It’s 2020
The rules of campus placements are changing and how AI is accelerating the gap. Continue reading on Medium »
How To Build An AI Agent In 2026: Tools, Architecture, RAG, MCP, And Real-World Use Cases
Dev.to · Dhruv Joshi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
How To Build An AI Agent In 2026: Tools, Architecture, RAG, MCP, And Real-World Use Cases
How to Build an AI Agent is no longer a future-dev question. It is the thing product teams, founders,...
Context is what you are missing in your AI Agents
Dev.to · Pavan Belagatti 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
Context is what you are missing in your AI Agents
The biggest flex for developers today is not about coding faster. It is designing efficient agentic...
Building AI-Powered Workflows: A Practical Implementation Guide
Dev.to · TokensAndTakes 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
Building AI-Powered Workflows: A Practical Implementation Guide
AI automation workflows have shifted from experimental projects to production infrastructure....
Connect AI: Construyendo Soberanía Digital desde Tarragona
Dev.to · Axlfc 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Connect AI: Construyendo Soberanía Digital desde Tarragona
Una plataforma cívica federada, IA local híbrida, y la arquitectura de un sistema que nadie pidió...
Desbordamiento de Ventana de Contexto de IA: Solución con Puntero de Memoria
Dev.to · Elizabeth Fuentes L 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Desbordamiento de Ventana de Contexto de IA: Solución con Puntero de Memoria
El desbordamiento de ventana de contexto** ocurre cuando las salidas de herramientas de un agente de...
AI Could Become Humanity’s Greatest Tool — Or Its Biggest Dependency
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
AI Could Become Humanity’s Greatest Tool — Or Its Biggest Dependency
Humanity Is Standing at a Civilizational Turning Point Continue reading on Medium »
Why AI Is Quietly Killing the SaaS Seat Model
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Why AI Is Quietly Killing the SaaS Seat Model
The rise of agentic AI is forcing enterprise software companies to rethink pricing, value, and the economics of digital labor. Continue reading on Write Your Wo
Your AI Agents Are Probably Accessing Data They Shouldn't
Dev.to · albe_sf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Your AI Agents Are Probably Accessing Data They Shouldn't
A new study shows two-thirds of organizations suspect their AI agents have already accessed unauthorized data. Our identity and access models are not ready for
Agent Docs: Answer Locally Before the Web — A Shared Reference for Every Coding Agent
Medium · Machine Learning 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Agent Docs: Answer Locally Before the Web — A Shared Reference for Every Coding Agent
Pair-program with a coding agent for an afternoon and you start noticing a quiet, recurring tax. Continue reading on Medium »