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Harness Template Library: 10 Production-Grade AI Agent Templates with 15 Shared Infrastructure Modules

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 2w ago

Harness Template Library: 10 Production-Grade AI Agent Templates with 15 Shared Infrastructure Modules

Building an AI agent prototype is straightforward. Making it reliable in production is not. Rate...

Tool Permission Matrix Builder & Validator: Structured, Visual Policy Management for AI Agent Teams

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago

Tool Permission Matrix Builder & Validator: Structured, Visual Policy Management for AI Agent Teams

AI agents in production access tools that range from harmless read-only queries to irreversible...

Context Compaction Visualizer: See Exactly What Your AI Agent Forgot Before It Costs You

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Context Compaction Visualizer: See Exactly What Your AI Agent Forgot Before It Costs You

When an AI agent runs for many turns, it eventually hits context limits and must compress or discard...

Agent Sandbox Escape Detector: Black-Box Security Scanning for LLM Agents

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Agent Sandbox Escape Detector: Black-Box Security Scanning for LLM Agents

Most agent security tools focus on known jailbreak phrases or static rule-matching. That approach...

Carbon-Aware Model Training: Scheduling GPU Workloads Around Electricity Carbon Intensity

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Carbon-Aware Model Training: Scheduling GPU Workloads Around Electricity Carbon Intensity

Training ML models has an environmental cost that most practitioners do not measure. A model trained...

Agentsync: Version, Merge, and Audit AI Agent Configurations Like Code

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 1mo ago

Agentsync: Version, Merge, and Audit AI Agent Configurations Like Code

Most AI engineering teams now run a stack of agent configs across many repos - model choices, tool...

Prepush-Guardian: Catch Secrets and Broken Tests Before They Reach Git History

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Prepush-Guardian: Catch Secrets and Broken Tests Before They Reach Git History

You are about to push. There is a hardcoded API key buried in one of 30 changed files. Or you forgot...

Fine-Tuning Qwen2.5-0.5B to Write SRE Post-Mortem Summaries

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 1mo ago

Fine-Tuning Qwen2.5-0.5B to Write SRE Post-Mortem Summaries

Writing post-mortem root-cause summaries is time-consuming and inconsistent. Junior SREs miss...

Morph: AST-Level Refactoring Where the LLM Describes Intent, Not Code

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Morph: AST-Level Refactoring Where the LLM Describes Intent, Not Code

When an LLM generates source code for a refactor, the output is a diff a reviewer must read line by...

Context Time Machine: Forensic Investigation of What Your Agent Actually Saw

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 2mo ago

Context Time Machine: Forensic Investigation of What Your Agent Actually Saw

Long-running agent sessions fail in a specific way that is hard to debug. The agent runs 40 turns. At...

Agent Constitution: Policy Enforcement and PII Protection for AI Agents

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Agent Constitution: Policy Enforcement and PII Protection for AI Agents

AI agents are getting more capable. They can browse the web, call APIs, read and write files, and...

ASR Evaluation Framework: Benchmarking Speech Recognition Models Across Accuracy, Speed, and Robustness

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 2mo ago

ASR Evaluation Framework: Benchmarking Speech Recognition Models Across Accuracy, Speed, and Robustness

Picking an ASR model for production is not straightforward. Whisper might be the most accurate for...

SPEC-TO-SHIP: A Multi-Agent Pipeline That Turns Feature Ideas Into Production Code

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 2mo ago

SPEC-TO-SHIP: A Multi-Agent Pipeline That Turns Feature Ideas Into Production Code

Writing a feature spec and getting it to production involves a lot of steps, architecture decisions,...

RAG Pipeline Stress Tester: Battle-Test Your RAG System Before It Reaches Production

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

RAG Pipeline Stress Tester: Battle-Test Your RAG System Before It Reaches Production

Most RAG systems get tested with a handful of happy-path questions. Someone asks "what is machine...

Orbis: Turn Any GitHub Repository Into an Interactive 3D Dependency Graph

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Orbis: Turn Any GitHub Repository Into an Interactive 3D Dependency Graph

Understanding a large codebase is hard. You clone it, start reading files, and quickly lose track of...

SmolVLM2 Edge Vision Agent: Visual Monitoring Without a GPU or Cloud API

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

SmolVLM2 Edge Vision Agent: Visual Monitoring Without a GPU or Cloud API

Running vision AI locally has always had a catch, you need a GPU, or you need to send frames to a...

ContextCraft: A Visual Workbench for Building and Managing LLM Context Windows

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

ContextCraft: A Visual Workbench for Building and Managing LLM Context Windows

Building a good LLM prompt is not a one-shot task. You assemble pieces, a system message, a few...

AI Slop Cleaner: Automating Your Codebase Hygiene

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

AI Slop Cleaner: Automating Your Codebase Hygiene

Every codebase accumulates clutter over time. An import left behind after a refactor. A helper...

Agent Failure Classifier: Post-Hoc Root Cause Analysis for Failed LLM Agent Runs

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Agent Failure Classifier: Post-Hoc Root Cause Analysis for Failed LLM Agent Runs

When an LLM agent fails, the trace is right there, the user turns, the tool calls, the responses, the...

Synthetic Data Flywheel: A Closed-Loop Pipeline for Instruction-Tuning Data

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 2mo ago

Synthetic Data Flywheel: A Closed-Loop Pipeline for Instruction-Tuning Data

Fine-tuning a model requires data. Good data requires human labeling. Human labeling doesn't scale....

Agent Memory Compressor: Intelligent Memory Compression for Long-Running LLM Agents

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Agent Memory Compressor: Intelligent Memory Compression for Long-Running LLM Agents

A 10-turn agent session can easily accumulate 20,000+ tokens of raw history, leaving almost no room...

Cache-Augmented Generation (CAG): A RAG-less Approach to Document QA

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Cache-Augmented Generation (CAG): A RAG-less Approach to Document QA

Most document QA systems today rely on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The standard pipeline is...

Loop Anti-Pattern Linter: Finding Hidden Performance Issues in Python

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Loop Anti-Pattern Linter: Finding Hidden Performance Issues in Python

When writing Python code, loop-heavy logic often looks correct but hides performance issues that only...

Low-Latency Model Router: Automatic LLM Selection Across OpenRouter

Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 3mo ago

Low-Latency Model Router: Automatic LLM Selection Across OpenRouter

When calling an LLM API directly, the model selection is typically fixed ahead of time. In practice,...