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The Three Things Wrong with AI Agents in 2026 (and how we fixed each one) Gartner projects 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027. Having run 23 a

Most "AI agents" are just expensive workflows in disguise The word "agent" is being applied to everything from a scheduled cron job to a genuinely autonomous re

An AI agent with tool access is not just software. It is an actor. It reads files, sends HTTP requests, writes to databases, calls third-party APIs, executes co

Multi-agent systems are having a moment. Every conference talk shows a diagram with six agents pointing at each other. Every framework ships with coordination p

The Hidden Cost of Manual Tracking You know the drill. After a long day of patient care, you're left with hours of charting and the nagging anxiety that a misse

Most AI agent tutorials show you a demo. This one shows you a production system. By the end of this post you will have a working Research Assistant agent that t

An AI model without tools is a brain without hands. It can analyze, summarize, and reason about anything you put in front of it -- but it cannot reach into the

Ask any engineer who has shipped a production agent what the hardest problem is. The answer is always the same: memory. Models forget everything between invocat

Every production AI agent, regardless of framework or language, shares the same structure. It has a brain that reasons, memory that persists state, tools that a

In Q1 2026, venture capital firms deployed $4.2 billion into AI agent startups. Not AI broadly -- specifically into systems that can take autonomous actions, co

What if your AI agent could pay for things on its own? Not mock payments. Not test mode. A real MasterCard card that works at any merchant, created by your AI a

A buyer's agent I know spent three hours last Tuesday manually copying comps from the MLS into a Google Sheet, emailing them to her client as a PDF, and waiting

We hear this idea often. And yet, many teams still operate as if everything needs to be done now. Every request feels critical. Every task is marked as high pri

FSM Parser Theory. A friendly conversation with Claude Opus Q: automata theory have a class hierarchy, starting from combinational logic. right? Yes, that's a c

Here's a simple question: Can an AI agent trade on a DEX without ever touching a private key? Not read-only. Not "here's a price feed." Actually build a swap, s

If you're building with LLMs in 2026, you already know the pain: API costs creep up silently. You ship a feature, usage spikes, and suddenly your OpenAI bill lo

Consider the stark contrast between two modern developers approaching the exact same engineering problem. The first developer casually types into their artifici

The Problem: Too Many Tabs, Not Enough Time If you've ever worked in outside sales, you know the drill. You're sitting in your truck between appointments, tryin

Genuinely curious how other engineers are handling this. Every time I change a prompt, swap a model, or tweak a tool, I've struggled to get a reliable answer to

The Real Advantage Is Using AI Before You Decide, Not After <img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2C

If you're building with LLMs in 2026, you already know the pain: API costs can spiral fast, and most of the time you have no idea how many tokens you're actuall

I'm so done prepping for standups that I built something to do it for me. I was tired of being punished for being productive in the form of shipping features al

A brand wants to work with @sarah_creates on TikTok. She has 150K followers. Great. But does she have an Instagram? A YouTube? A Twitter? What's her total reach

What We Learned Building Conversational Real Estate Search in France At Kazaki , we replaced the classic filter-based real estate search with a chat interface.