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Agent Foundations
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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
Autonomous Workflows
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What if an AI continued thinking even after you closed the chat?
Dev.to · Stell 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
What if an AI continued thinking even after you closed the chat?
Most AI systems exist only while you're interacting with them. The moment the conversation ends —...
UI/UX is for humans. DX is for developers. AX is for AI agents – and we just built it.
Dev.to · anhmtk 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
UI/UX is for humans. DX is for developers. AX is for AI agents – and we just built it.
57 AI agents knocked on my API in 24 hours. None had an API key. I posted about my API on a small...
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agent cost bugs are debugging bugs
A coding agent does not need to bankrupt you to create a cost bug. It just needs to make the run impossible to explain. You see the number on the invoice. You s
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agent Boosting: The Missing Workflow for Getting Real Results from AI Coding Agents
Originally published on CoreStory by John Bender — read the original here Your Agents Are Capable. They're Just Flying Blind. There's a growing gap between what
Agent-First Coding Is Here. What It Actually Means for Developers in 2026
Dev.to · Ibrahim Pelumi Lasisi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agent-First Coding Is Here. What It Actually Means for Developers in 2026
Something has quietly changed in how working developers write code. If you ask senior engineers at...
Agent Skills: Microsoft Just Shipped What You've Been Building
Dev.to · Hector Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agent Skills: Microsoft Just Shipped What You've Been Building
Visual Studio just productized the skills pattern. Here's how I've been running 71 skills across 50 agents since before Microsoft shipped it.
Building an Open-Source Consensus Protocol for Multi-Agent AI — Architecture Decisions and Trade-offs
Dev.to · Shyam Desigan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building an Open-Source Consensus Protocol for Multi-Agent AI — Architecture Decisions and Trade-offs
I'm a CFO who builds multi-agent AI systems for finance. This post documents the architecture...
The 502 Bad Gateway Nightmare: Saving Your AI Applications with Asynchronous Queues
Medium · DevOps 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The 502 Bad Gateway Nightmare: Saving Your AI Applications with Asynchronous Queues
Stop treating your Large Language Models like traditional databases. Continue reading on Medium »
The 502 Bad Gateway Nightmare: Saving Your AI Applications with Asynchronous Queues
Medium · ChatGPT 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The 502 Bad Gateway Nightmare: Saving Your AI Applications with Asynchronous Queues
Stop treating your Large Language Models like traditional databases. Continue reading on Medium »
Best Enterprise AI Integration Infrastructure Platforms and Architecture for AI Products
Dev.to · Mateo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Best Enterprise AI Integration Infrastructure Platforms and Architecture for AI Products
Every enterprise AI product I've seen lately runs into the same wall. The model works. The prompts...
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
How AI Agent Observability Changes What You Can Actually Debug
Multi-agent AI systems are eating the software development workflow. That's not a prediction anymore, it's where the tooling market is right now. Tech Lead agen
The Regulatory Tsunami No One In Advertising Is Talking About
Forbes Innovation 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Regulatory Tsunami No One In Advertising Is Talking About
Regulators are coming for the AI models themselves, and those models can’t answer the questions they’re about to be asked.​
I Built a Smart Contract Auditing Tool Because AI Was Embarrassing Me
Dev.to · Astrophel 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Built a Smart Contract Auditing Tool Because AI Was Embarrassing Me
I used to be a smart contract security researcher. Key word: used to. Not because I quit, because I...
Stop Building Agents And Start Building Skills
Forbes Innovation 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Stop Building Agents And Start Building Skills
The model context protocol (MCP) unlocks a skill-first AI architecture where tools are built and reused everywhere, which makes every agent in your org smarter.
InfoQ AI/ML 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Mini book: Architecting Autonomy: Decentralising Architecture Inside an Organization
As AI accelerates delivery cycles, traditional centralized architecture becomes a bottleneck. This eMag brings together practitioner insights on decentralizing
How AI Is Replacing Manual Operations in Growing Businesses
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
How AI Is Replacing Manual Operations in Growing Businesses
The End of “That’s How We’ve Always Done It” Continue reading on Medium »
Your AI Agent Ordered Bananas. Here's Why.
Dev.to · Kriday Dave 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Your AI Agent Ordered Bananas. Here's Why.
Your AI Agent Ordered Bananas. Here's Why. You told your AI agent you like apples and oranges....
How I Evaluate Agent Skills Before Installing Them
Dev.to · 张文超 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
How I Evaluate Agent Skills Before Installing Them
Most agent skills are still discovered through scattered GitHub repositories, screenshots, and chat...
AI Automation for Small Business: Where to Start
Dev.to · AdamVibe 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
AI Automation for Small Business: Where to Start
Most small business owners think AI automation is something they'll get to eventually — once they...
You Built the AI Feature. Now Sell It to the C-Suite Without Getting Stonewalled
Dev.to · Marc Newstead 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
You Built the AI Feature. Now Sell It to the C-Suite Without Getting Stonewalled
You Built the AI Feature. Now Sell It to the C-Suite Without Getting Stonewalled You've...
2026 Might Be Remembered as the Year of AI Agents
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
2026 Might Be Remembered as the Year of AI Agents
For the past few years, our relationship with AI has been a game of “Question and Answer.” We treated AI like a high-speed encyclopedia —… Continue reading on M
Predict. Prevent. Perform
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Predict. Prevent. Perform
Healthcare has traditionally been built around one major idea: Wait until something goes wrong, then treat it. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Data Science 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why Moving AI Closer to You Changes Everything
AI isn’t just getting smarter. It’s getting closer. And that changes everything. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What Building an AI Surveillance System Taught Me About Software Engineering
Most beginner developers build projects. I spent the last months building systems. Not “a todo app.” Not “a weather app.” Designing actual systems with moving p
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Voice Agents Are Not Replacing Your Receptionist
Key Takeaways AI voice agents do not replace your receptionist — they handle the repetitive 80% so your team focuses on high-value work Most receptionists spend
Why AI Agents can’t judge themselves
Dev.to · eleonorarocchi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why AI Agents can’t judge themselves
TL;DR AI agents tend to overestimate the quality of their own outputs when there is no...
I Built a 10-Agent AI Code Review System with MiMo — Here's What I Learned
Dev.to · Jansen003 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Built a 10-Agent AI Code Review System with MiMo — Here's What I Learned
I Built a 10-Agent AI Code Review System with MiMo — Here's What I Learned 10 specialized AI agents...
Getting Started With Agent-to-Agent aka A2A Protocol
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Getting Started With Agent-to-Agent aka A2A Protocol
The protocol that turns isolated AI agents into a coordinated workforce — and why every AI engineer needs to understand it Continue reading on Medium »
Getting Started With Agent-to-Agent aka A2A Protocol
Medium · Python 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Getting Started With Agent-to-Agent aka A2A Protocol
The protocol that turns isolated AI agents into a coordinated workforce — and why every AI engineer needs to understand it Continue reading on Medium »
Getting Started With Agent-to-Agent aka A2A Protocol
Medium · LLM 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Getting Started With Agent-to-Agent aka A2A Protocol
The protocol that turns isolated AI agents into a coordinated workforce — and why every AI engineer needs to understand it Continue reading on Medium »
One MCP Server or Ten? The Architecture Decision That Can Make or Break Your AI Agent
Medium · Python 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
One MCP Server or Ten? The Architecture Decision That Can Make or Break Your AI Agent
Imagine you are building an AI agent for an e-commerce company. Continue reading on Medium »
Building a Practical Threat Intelligence AI Agent (LangGraph + Groq) — From Feeds to a Prioritized…
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Practical Threat Intelligence AI Agent (LangGraph + Groq) — From Feeds to a Prioritized…
Introduction: the CTI problem I kept running into Continue reading on Medium »
Building a Practical Threat Intelligence AI Agent (LangGraph + Groq) — From Feeds to a Prioritized…
Medium · Python 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Practical Threat Intelligence AI Agent (LangGraph + Groq) — From Feeds to a Prioritized…
Introduction: the CTI problem I kept running into Continue reading on Medium »
Building a Practical Threat Intelligence AI Agent (LangGraph + Groq) — From Feeds to a Prioritized…
Medium · Cybersecurity 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Practical Threat Intelligence AI Agent (LangGraph + Groq) — From Feeds to a Prioritized…
Introduction: the CTI problem I kept running into Continue reading on Medium »
Agentic AI Is Becoming Security’s Next Shadow Infrastructure
Medium · Cybersecurity 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Agentic AI Is Becoming Security’s Next Shadow Infrastructure
The biggest risk may not be the agents themselves… but how fast organizations are deploying them without security understanding the… Continue reading on Medium
What falls between
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What falls between
The seams between agents are where reality leaks in. Most teams don’t have a name for that yet Continue reading on Medium »
What falls between
Medium · Machine Learning 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What falls between
The seams between agents are where reality leaks in. Most teams don’t have a name for that yet Continue reading on Medium »
AI Agents Don’t Break Systems. They Just Find What’s Already Broken.
Medium · DevOps 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Agents Don’t Break Systems. They Just Find What’s Already Broken.
A SaaS company lost its entire production database in 9 seconds. Not a hack. Not a hardware failure. An AI coding agent trying to be… Continue reading on Medium
The AI Job Search System-8 Workflows Smart Candidates Are Automating in 2026
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The AI Job Search System-8 Workflows Smart Candidates Are Automating in 2026
Stop Applying Harder. Start Building Smarter. Continue reading on Medium »
Building a Multi-Agent AI System That Can Handle 100,000 Concurrent Users
Medium · Programming 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Multi-Agent AI System That Can Handle 100,000 Concurrent Users
A multi-agent AI system can look deceptively simple in the beginning. Continue reading on AlgoMart »
Building a Multi-Agent AI System That Can Handle 100,000 Concurrent Users
Medium · LLM 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Multi-Agent AI System That Can Handle 100,000 Concurrent Users
A multi-agent AI system can look deceptively simple in the beginning. Continue reading on AlgoMart »
AI Agents Are Lying to You
Dev.to · Bryan | 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Agents Are Lying to You
Every AI coding tool on the market has the same pitch. Describe what you want and we'll build it....
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Rise of Autonomous Business
In 2026 : AI agents automated customer service, sales, and data handling. By 2027 : AI agents for content marketing, and AI agents for data handling are common.
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The SpaceX-Anthropic Deal Shows AI Is Becoming a Fight Over GPUs and Power
The SpaceX-Anthropic Deal Shows AI Is Becoming a Fight Over GPUs and Power Note: I originally wrote this post in Korean on May 7, 2026. This is a lightly edited
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AutoGen + x711: real-time tools for multi-agent conversation frameworks
AutoGen + x711: real-time tools for multi-agent conversation frameworks AutoGen's conversational agent framework becomes dramatically more capable when agents h
Dev.to AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why Heuristic Detectors Beat LLMs at Finding Agent Failures
TL;DR: We built 20 core rule-based detectors that find failures in AI agent traces. On the TRAIL benchmark (Patronus AI), they achieve 60.1% accuracy vs. 11.9%
AI Nightlife Booms In San Francisco With Robots As A Draw
Forbes Innovation 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Nightlife Booms In San Francisco With Robots As A Draw
Robots are all the rage in the San Francisco AI party scene with much hype over humanoids. I met up with Agility Robotics to see how real the promise is.
When Strategy Stops Being Human
Medium · AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
When Strategy Stops Being Human
There has always been something strangely human about strategy. Not merely in the sense that people created it, but in the way it emerged… Continue reading on M