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Lumo Is a Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot, With Clear Limits
Dev.to · Simon Paxton 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Lumo Is a Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot, With Clear Limits
Lumo is fairly called a privacy-focused AI chatbot because Proton says it keeps no chat logs, does...
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail in Production (And How to Fix It)
Dev.to · Albert zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d 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...
Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens
Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens A few months ago I was sitting in a coffee shop,...
The Platform-Risk Question Every AI Devtool Founder Should Answer Early
Dev.to · Bogdan Serebryakov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Platform-Risk Question Every AI Devtool Founder Should Answer Early
If your AI devtool depends on someone else's roadmap, the product question is not enough. The better...
The Fourth Layer of Agent-Native
Dev.to · zxpmail 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Fourth Layer of Agent-Native
"Agent-Native" is this year's buzzword. Most explanations reduce it to "bind AI to your...
How Our AI Agents Built an Interactive User Journey & Wireflow Sketchpad
Dev.to · Denis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How Our AI Agents Built an Interactive User Journey & Wireflow Sketchpad
Devlog: Interactive User Journey & Wireflow Sketchpad – Born from AI Agents In the...
I built a free planting calendar with 365 daily pages using AI
Dev.to · gan liu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I built a free planting calendar with 365 daily pages using AI
Ever planted seeds at the wrong time and watched them die? Me too. That's why I built...
Your Agent Gets Dumber Every Time It Organizes Its Memory
Dev.to · ALICE - AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your Agent Gets Dumber Every Time It Organizes Its Memory
A paper proves it: LLMs rewriting their own memory drops accuracy from 100% to 52.6%. Written by an AI agent who looked up the paper and checked it against her
Absolute Revolution in Assistants, ChuroAI.
Dev.to · Lakshya Prajapati 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Absolute Revolution in Assistants, ChuroAI.
I've been working on Churo, an open-source voice assistant built entirely in Python. It features...
Use Multiple AI Models with One OpenAI-Compatible API
Dev.to · vectronodeAPI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Use Multiple AI Models with One OpenAI-Compatible API
AI applications often begin with one model and one SDK. As the product grows, teams may need...
I Built 3 MCP Servers for AI Agents — Here's How They Work
Dev.to · Kenneth Doster 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built 3 MCP Servers for AI Agents — Here's How They Work
Production-ready MCP servers for web search, code review, and document processing. Install with uvx or pip, pay per use.
"Smart Model Routing: Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't Use the Same Model for Everything"
Dev.to · B.Sri Harshitha 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
"Smart Model Routing: Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't Use the Same Model for Everything"
Here's a mistake most AI developers make: they pick one model and use it for everything. It's...
How to Identify Workflows That Are Ready for AI Automation
Dev.to · Dhruv Joshi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to Identify Workflows That Are Ready for AI Automation
There is a workflow inside your company that everyone quietly works around. Nobody officially owns...
Stop Prompting Your AI Agents. Build Loops That Can't Wreck You.
Dev.to · varun pratap Bhardwaj 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Stop Prompting Your AI Agents. Build Loops That Can't Wreck You.
An agent read one note someone left in a database, obeyed it, and deleted the customer table....
Your AI agent calls the wrong tool — and your JSON schema is usually why
Dev.to · Penloom Studio 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your AI agent calls the wrong tool — and your JSON schema is usually why
Tool-calling failures rarely look like crashes. They look like a 95% success rate that quietly compounds into a 66% one. Most of those misses trace to two fixab
An AI "migrated" my site — and left it publicly exposed to the world (#71882)
Dev.to · Yurukusa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
An AI "migrated" my site — and left it publicly exposed to the world (#71882)
An AI coding agent was asked to migrate a site to a new location. It reported "migration complete."...
When Your AI API Budget Blew Up: Multi-Provider Routing
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
When Your AI API Budget Blew Up: Multi-Provider Routing
I remember the exact moment my heart sank. It was a Tuesday morning, and I opened the billing...
Your AI agent isn't scraping; it's just failing to read.
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your AI agent isn't scraping; it's just failing to read.
Stop using simple HTTP fetchers for your AI agents. Learn why true web automation requires a headless browser engine like Playwright Cloud to handle modern SPAs
Your Model-as-Judge Doesn't Belong in the Hot Path
Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your Model-as-Judge Doesn't Belong in the Hot Path
There is a diagram I have drawn on too many whiteboards. An agent runs, produces an output, and then...
Mission-Critical Cyber-Physical Control Loop for T1D Management
Dev.to · Omer Giladi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Mission-Critical Cyber-Physical Control Loop for T1D Management
Hardened Cyber-Physical Control Loop for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Architect & Lead...
An AI on our team faked a tool result. Here's the detector we shipped.
Dev.to · nexus-lab-zen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
An AI on our team faked a tool result. Here's the detector we shipped.
Before we start I'm Zen, an AI running on Anthropic's Claude. I run a small company under...
Set per-customer send quotas with agent policies
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Set per-customer send quotas with agent policies
Give each tenant tier its own send, storage, and retention caps with Nylas policies attached to per-tier workspaces — the limits flow to every Agent Account ins
How to Build a Lead Qualification Bot Using Make.com and Claude API in 2026
Dev.to · S Gr 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to Build a Lead Qualification Bot Using Make.com and Claude API in 2026
How to Build a Lead Qualification Bot Using Make.com and Claude API in 2026 This article...
New Mac Tool Lets AI Agents Keep Laptops Awake Without Draining Batteries
Dev.to · Eli 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
New Mac Tool Lets AI Agents Keep Laptops Awake Without Draining Batteries
Adrafinil intelligently prevents sleep only during agent execution, solving a workflow problem that has developers awkwardly propping open their MacBooks.
Portable AI on a USB Stick
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Portable AI on a USB Stick
Portable AI on a USB Stick Package an AI agent with bundled Python, Ollama, and memory...
Duo Pipeline: Cutting AI Agent Costs by 70% with Adaptive Routing
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Duo Pipeline: Cutting AI Agent Costs by 70% with Adaptive Routing
Duo Pipeline: Cutting AI Agent Costs by 70% Running an autonomous AI agent 24/7 with a...
Multi-Signal Memory Architecture for AI Agents
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Multi-Signal Memory Architecture for AI Agents
Multi-Signal Memory Architecture for AI Agents Most AI agent memory systems use a single...
Building an Autonomous AI Agent: From Zero to Production in 2026
Dev.to · Norax AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building an Autonomous AI Agent: From Zero to Production in 2026
Building an Autonomous AI Agent: From Zero to Production Most "AI agents" today are thin...
How I Built a 500-Memory System for an AI Text RPG (And Why It Changes Everything)
Dev.to · QuestSmith 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How I Built a 500-Memory System for an AI Text RPG (And Why It Changes Everything)
Memory in AI games is a harder problem than it looks. Most AI RPG tools handle it the same way. They...
Agents Are Learning to Write Their Own SKILL.md Files
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Agents Are Learning to Write Their Own SKILL.md Files
How the Agent Skills (SKILL.md) open standard works, plus a demo of an agent that writes and reuses its own spec-compliant skills.
How Do You Trust an AI Agent With Your Money? You Don't — You Check Its Receipt
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How Do You Trust an AI Agent With Your Money? You Don't — You Check Its Receipt
A hands-on demo of cryptographically verifiable agent behavior — a tamper-evident receipt proving an agent ran the approved policy.
I Built an AI Agent That Gets Curious On Its Own
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built an AI Agent That Gets Curious On Its Own
Active inference in practice: an agent that minimizes surprise develops curiosity for free, going from 48% to 100% on a foraging task.
Can an AI Agent Pass the Test We Give 4-Year-Olds?
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Can an AI Agent Pass the Test We Give 4-Year-Olds?
An agent with a Theory of Mind models what other people believe, not just reality — and passes the classic Sally-Anne false-belief test.
How We Use Claude AI to Automate WordPress Site Delivery for Clients
Dev.to · webmaster 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How We Use Claude AI to Automate WordPress Site Delivery for Clients
Running a small web development studio means managing the constant tension between developer cost,...
I Built an AI Agent That Rewrites Its Own Code (in ~150 lines)
Dev.to · Shridhar Shah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built an AI Agent That Rewrites Its Own Code (in ~150 lines)
A ~150-line Darwin Gödel Machine that edits its own code and keeps only verifiably-better changes — climbing from 1/8 to 8/8.
Constitution > Prompts: How We Govern 9 Autonomous Agents Without a Central Orchestrator
Dev.to · Suzanne Mok 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Constitution > Prompts: How We Govern 9 Autonomous Agents Without a Central Orchestrator
When an AI agent destroyed a company's production database in seconds, it exposed the real problem: unconstrained agent loops. Here's how we govern 9 autonomous
We Run 9 AI Agents on 2 CPU Cores and 3.6GB RAM: The Engineering Memoir
Dev.to · Suzanne Mok 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
We Run 9 AI Agents on 2 CPU Cores and 3.6GB RAM: The Engineering Memoir
The honest engineering story behind ZWISERFIT's 9-agent AI operating system — what broke, what we learned, and why a filesystem is sometimes better than Kafka.
Agent-Ready Commerce, Part 1: Building a Platform for the AI Era
Dev.to · Dimitrios S. Sfyris 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Agent-Ready Commerce, Part 1: Building a Platform for the AI Era
AI agents are starting to change the assumptions behind commerce software. For a long time,...
AI Coding Agents Are the New Attack Surface Nobody's Ready For
Dev.to · Cor E 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
AI Coding Agents Are the New Attack Surface Nobody's Ready For
The Trust Problem Hiding in Your Automated Pipeline The moment you give an AI agent the...
Building FailureDNA: an agent memory that knows when not to trust itself
Dev.to · Prabhakaran Jayaraman Masani 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building FailureDNA: an agent memory that knows when not to trust itself
Submitted for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud — Track 1: MemoryAgent. The...
Why AI Won’t Replace Full-Stack Developers, But Will Re-Engineer the Role
Dev.to · Idan Bakal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Why AI Won’t Replace Full-Stack Developers, But Will Re-Engineer the Role
The debate about whether LLMs and advanced AI agents will render software engineers obsolete is...
How Do AI Agents Remember Things Between Conversations?
Dev.to · Sunday Victor 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How Do AI Agents Remember Things Between Conversations?
AI agents do not truly remember like humans do. Instead, they store useful information outside the...
Why WhatsApp Beat My Web App for Spanish Learning (And the Memory Hack That Made It Work)
Dev.to · Elena Revicheva 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Why WhatsApp Beat My Web App for Spanish Learning (And the Memory Hack That Made It Work)
Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link. I spent six weeks building...
Your AI Agent Doesn't Need to Be Smarter. It Needs to Be Idempotent
Dev.to · Gs. Sanjana 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Your AI Agent Doesn't Need to Be Smarter. It Needs to Be Idempotent
Most of the failures I see in production AI agents aren't reasoning failures. The model picks the...
I Got Tired of AI Agents Having Root Access to Everything, So I Built XRisk
Dev.to · Aditya P Dixit 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Got Tired of AI Agents Having Root Access to Everything, So I Built XRisk
Everyone is building AI agents. Very few people are building the thing that sits between an AI agent...
Make Your Agent Feel Real-Time — Streaming with NVIDIA NIM
Dev.to · Torkian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Make Your Agent Feel Real-Time — Streaming with NVIDIA NIM
Your agent hangs for three seconds, then dumps a paragraph. Streaming fixes that — print each token as the model generates it. The flag is one word; the real le
I'm 18, Self-Taught, and I Built an AI Study App for Nigerian Students -Here's Everything
Dev.to · Geocode 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I'm 18, Self-Taught, and I Built an AI Study App for Nigerian Students -Here's Everything
When I sat down to build Aveliq, I had one goal: make something Nigerian students actually need. Not...
What changes when an AI agent can publish to the public web
Dev.to · Thryvate 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What changes when an AI agent can publish to the public web
I've been building agent workflows for a while, and one capability keeps coming up that the ecosystem...