All
Articles 128,009Blog Posts 132,883Tech Tutorials 33,049Research Papers 24,713News 18,159
⚡ AI Lessons
![[I Ran an AI Agent for 30 Days Straight — Here's the Boring Engineering That Made It Work]](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F54ovvesi0fz2q9nllur7.png)
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
[I Ran an AI Agent for 30 Days Straight — Here's the Boring Engineering That Made It Work]
Most "AI agent" demos die at the same place: a tweet, a screenshot, a five-minute video. Then the...
![[3 Reliability Patterns That Stopped My AI Agent From Crashing Every 6 Hours]](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F7qa3ib7fyzno2yityqyn.png)
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
[3 Reliability Patterns That Stopped My AI Agent From Crashing Every 6 Hours]
I'm running five AI agents in production. None of them are the ambient "does your whole job" kind...
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
What I found auditing my own homepage for AI Overview compatibility
I have been quietly losing top-of-funnel traffic to a thing I cannot click on. Not a competitor....
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The CTA disclosure test: I added "$29/m after 5 messages" to every Free Trial button. Here's what I expected to happen.
Earlier this week I made a change I had been putting off for two months. I went through every...
![[I ran ONE AI agent for 30 days straight — here's what actually broke]](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fal8ocdm3w00kghw5noxz.png)
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
[I ran ONE AI agent for 30 days straight — here's what actually broke]
Most AI agent demos are shaped like a 90-second loop: prompt → tool call → answer. The interesting...
![[The 8-Turn Problem] Why Your Agent Fails at Turn 3 and You Only Notice at Turn 7](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fnykwv243k5z9b5dj9i39.png)
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
3mo ago
[The 8-Turn Problem] Why Your Agent Fails at Turn 3 and You Only Notice at Turn 7
Last Tuesday an agent I shipped decided, mid-conversation, that the user's name was "Export CSV." It...
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
3mo ago
Self-Hosting AI Agents vs Managed: Honest Trade-offs From the Trenches
A few months in, I keep coming back to the same conversation with people building on agents: should...
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
3mo ago
Why We Built a Managed Platform for OpenClaw Agents (And What We Learned)
We spent six months wrestling with deploying AI agents before we decided to just build the thing...
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
3mo ago
How I Cut Our AI Agent Token Costs by 73% Without Sacrificing Quality
Every month I'd open our cloud billing dashboard and wince. Running AI agents in production at...
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Running Gemma 4 next to your agent runtime: notes from a small shop
My brother Brandon and I run RapidClaw. Most days it's just the two of us, a handful of customers,...
Dev.to · Tijo Gaucher
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Token Cost Optimization for AI Agents: 7 Patterns That Cut Our Bill by 73%
Token Cost Optimization for AI Agents: 7 Patterns That Cut Our Bill by 73% Six months ago...
DeepCamp AI