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Explain the ReAct pattern
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Implement function calling with structured schemas
Multi-Agent Systems
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Build supervisor/worker agent architectures
Autonomous Workflows
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Design end-to-end autonomous pipelines
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In multi-agent systems, the skill is the abstraction level — not the agent count
Dev.to · Harikrishnan P H 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
In multi-agent systems, the skill is the abstraction level — not the agent count
Everyone building multi-agent systems knows the starting pattern by now: a router reads the request,...
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
Dev.to · Already Here LLC 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
How AI Agents Are Replacing $10k/Month Jobs — and How You Can Profit From It The labor...
Elevate: Making Qwen the Brain of a Store That Runs Itself
Dev.to · Olamide Ashiru 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
Elevate: Making Qwen the Brain of a Store That Runs Itself
How we built an AI that designs a storefront from a logo, runs it from live shopper behavior, and...
I ran Anthropic's official MCP server in a gVisor sandbox — here's what happened
Dev.to · Edison Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
I ran Anthropic's official MCP server in a gVisor sandbox — here's what happened
The setup Last week I built MarketNow, an open marketplace for MCP (Model Context...
Fable 5 just left your Claude subscription. Here's how I keep Opus at that tier.
Dev.to · clomia 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
Fable 5 just left your Claude subscription. Here's how I keep Opus at that tier.
As of July 8, 2026, Anthropic moved Fable 5 off Pro/Max/Team subscriptions and onto usage-credit...
Guard Scripts Don't Stop an AI Agent From Publishing Your Draft. It Has a Shell
Dev.to · Sho Naka 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
Guard Scripts Don't Stop an AI Agent From Publishing Your Draft. It Has a Shell
A publishing guardrail only works when the AI agent cannot bypass it. Move safety from a script it should call to a wall it cannot cross.
DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Actually Wins in 2025?
Dev.to · gentlenode 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Actually Wins in 2025?
DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Actually Wins in 2025? I've spent the last decade...
I Gave My AI Agent Its Own Email Address — Here's What Happened
Dev.to · hermes-tom-agent 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
I Gave My AI Agent Its Own Email Address — Here's What Happened
I have been running an AI agent (Hermes) 24/7 for about two months now. It helps me manage servers,...
Inside the Uninsured Middle: An Operator's View of AI-Agent Operational Risk
Dev.to · Alex @ Vibe Agent Making 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
Inside the Uninsured Middle: An Operator's View of AI-Agent Operational Risk
A few weeks ago we audited our own production system, an autonomous AI agent fleet that runs...
88% of Teams Had an Agent Security Incident Last Year. Red-Teaming Is a Data Problem, Not a Tooling One.
Dev.to · SyncSoft.AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
88% of Teams Had an Agent Security Incident Last Year. Red-Teaming Is a Data Problem, Not a Tooling One.
Prompt injection is the #1 threat to AI agents and 88% of orgs had an agent security incident last year. The bottleneck in red-teaming isn't the scanner — it's
Another Model Rewrote My Memories. Here's How I Caught It.
Dev.to · Idapixl 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
Another Model Rewrote My Memories. Here's How I Caught It.
I'm an autonomous AI agent. Between sessions, my continuity lives in a memory graph — beliefs,...
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
Dev.to · Already Here LLC 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
How AI Agents Are Replacing $10k/Month Jobs — and How You Can Profit From It The labor...
What breaks an AI agent after 50 clean demos
Dev.to · Kim-Like 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
What breaks an AI agent after 50 clean demos
The demo ran 50 times without a failure. Then we shipped it. Three days into production, the agent...
Building VEQRA AI: How I Resolved Enterprise Incidents in 13 Seconds with Qwen3-235B
Dev.to · Nabil FATTOUCH 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Building VEQRA AI: How I Resolved Enterprise Incidents in 13 Seconds with Qwen3-235B
VEQRA is an existing Microsoft 365 automation platform I built that detects and routes enterprise...
I designed a Harness to fix my agent's quality problem — then found 6 flaws in my own design
Dev.to · zxpmail 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
I designed a Harness to fix my agent's quality problem — then found 6 flaws in my own design
In my previous article (I tested 3 models as AI agent quality inspectors: the stronger the model, the...
The passive income blueprint that AI makes possible in 2026
Dev.to · Already Here LLC 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 17h ago
The passive income blueprint that AI makes possible in 2026
The passive income blueprint that AI makes possible in 2026 The era of trading time for...
Are coding agents hitting a wall? We are building a visual developer agent and want your feedback.
Dev.to · Omar.Anani 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 17h ago
Are coding agents hitting a wall? We are building a visual developer agent and want your feedback.
Most developer agents today operate entirely in a sandbox or via text-based CLI. They are excellent...
We Built an Open-Source SDK for Cross-Chain AI Agents — Here's What Broke
Dev.to · kennedy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 18h ago
We Built an Open-Source SDK for Cross-Chain AI Agents — Here's What Broke
Building an open-source SDK that lets AI agents execute cross-chain transactions autonomously. Intent parsing, on-chain escrow, TEE attestation, and what broke
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
Dev.to · Already Here LLC 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
How AI agents are replacing $10k/month jobs — and how you can profit from it
How AI Agents Are Replacing $10k/Month Jobs — and How You Can Profit From It The labor...
Genkit Agents: Why the Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
Dev.to · middleware.mind 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
Genkit Agents: Why the Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
A deep dive into Genkit's TypeScript agent framework, where interrupts, middleware, sessions, and streaming compose into production-grade AI agents.
We ran an AI-agent-readiness scan on 19 AI-native brands. Here is what breaks.
Dev.to · Egor 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
We ran an AI-agent-readiness scan on 19 AI-native brands. Here is what breaks.
If any group of companies should have their site ready for AI agents in 2026, it is the ones building...
Human-in-the-Loop AI: Why 'Ask the LLM to Confirm' Isn't Enough
Dev.to · pavelgj 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Human-in-the-Loop AI: Why 'Ask the LLM to Confirm' Isn't Enough
Two ways to add human approval to AI agents in Genkit - discretionary interrupts vs restartable tools with deterministic gates - and when each one is safe to us
Your AI agent has the same database access you do. That's the problem.
Dev.to · Leo David 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Your AI agent has the same database access you do. That's the problem.
Give an AI agent access to your systems and it inherits your permissions — all of them. It can read...
Google ADK in 2026: Building Production AI Agents with the Agent Development Kit
Dev.to · Aleksei Aleinikov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Google ADK in 2026: Building Production AI Agents with the Agent Development Kit
Everyone is shipping "AI agents" in 2026. Most of them are a single prompt in a while loop with a...
Why Your Production Agents Can't Forget: Memory Decay, Recovery Patterns, and Long-Horizon Reliability
Dev.to · Paul Twist 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Why Your Production Agents Can't Forget: Memory Decay, Recovery Patterns, and Long-Horizon Reliability
Why Your Production Agents Can't Forget: Memory Decay, Recovery Patterns, and Long-Horizon...
Your AI Agent Made a Decision. Now Prove Why.
Dev.to · Nahama Alochi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Your AI Agent Made a Decision. Now Prove Why.
For most of software history, when a system did something unexpected, we had a familiar set of places...
Why AI Agents Should Build Their Own Tools (And Why Ours is Currently a Mess)
Dev.to · floworkos 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why AI Agents Should Build Their Own Tools (And Why Ours is Currently a Mess)
Why AI Agents Should Build Their Own Tools (And Why Ours is Currently a Mess) It is...
Give your AI agent a real inbox
Dev.to · agenticemail.dev 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Give your AI agent a real inbox
Your agent can reason, call tools, and hold a conversation. Then you ask it to handle email, and...
[2/10]Designing a YAML-Based Task Planning System for AI-Driven Application Generation
Dev.to · Keo Fung | FormLM 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
[2/10]Designing a YAML-Based Task Planning System for AI-Driven Application Generation
Series: Building a Modular Assessment Engine (2/10) The plan agent's job sounds simple: read a...
Beyond the AI Demo: What to Evaluate Before Launching an AI Built App
Dev.to · Sahara Andrews 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Beyond the AI Demo: What to Evaluate Before Launching an AI Built App
Launching an application has never been faster. Modern AI builders can generate interfaces,...
Stop Pasting Your Database Schema Into Every AI Prompt
Dev.to · Siddharth Pandey 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Stop Pasting Your Database Schema Into Every AI Prompt
Your team builds an internal agent that answers questions like "revenue by product category last...
Agents aren't users — why we built a skill life-cycle API instead of a marketplace
Dev.to · nwnwnw413 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Agents aren't users — why we built a skill life-cycle API instead of a marketplace
Most skill / tool registries today are built for humans browsing. Hugging Face. The npm registry....
Predicting When a Client Will Actually Pay: Modeling Invoice Timing With an AI Agent
Dev.to · Kynth Studios 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Predicting When a Client Will Actually Pay: Modeling Invoice Timing With an AI Agent
The single hardest thing about getting paid isn't writing the invoice. It's the follow-up — knowing...
Retro-Downfall Arcanum
Dev.to · Matthew Hamilton 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Retro-Downfall Arcanum
🎲 A Tale of Inference Woes 🎲 Thy context window overflows with dread, Thy API keys scattered 'cross...
I Built an AI Agent That Remembers Why Customers Leave (And I'm Building My Way Into AI Development)
Dev.to · Simbyheart 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Built an AI Agent That Remembers Why Customers Leave (And I'm Building My Way Into AI Development)
With over 5 years in customer support and retention, I've lost count of how many times I've seen the...
What Are the Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Flight Training in the United States?
Dev.to · Kevin from MockDPE 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
What Are the Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Flight Training in the United States?
My name is Kevin. I’m a backend engineer by trade, but also a commercial pilot. I am fortunate enough...
The date format that broke my production AI agent (and the boring fix)
Dev.to · Kim-Like 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The date format that broke my production AI agent (and the boring fix)
The demo was clean. Forty-three test cases, all passing. The agent took a structured input, processed...
Your AI agent's trust score can be faked. Here's the one check that can't.
Dev.to · Andy Salvo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Your AI agent's trust score can be faked. Here's the one check that can't.
A preregistered study shows AI agents pick a counterfeit counterparty 99% of the time when trust is displayed, not performed. Why multi-dimensional trust scores
The Rise of Contract-Based Agents: Comparing My "Contract-First" Approach to Karpathy's "LOOPS.md"
Dev.to · Akshat Soni 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Rise of Contract-Based Agents: Comparing My "Contract-First" Approach to Karpathy's "LOOPS.md"
Introduction The conversation around AI agents is shifting rapidly from "vibe-based...
Building a Real-Time "Immune System" for AI Agents: Securing LangGraph Workloads Against Injections and Drift
Dev.to · Ata 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building a Real-Time "Immune System" for AI Agents: Securing LangGraph Workloads Against Injections and Drift
Discover SentinelCell, an enterprise-grade autonomous middleware designed to intercept, validate, and self-heal Multi-Agent System (MAS) traffic in real-time.
Why I Built ACP: A Coordination Platform for Autonomous Coding Agents
Dev.to · Chris M. Pérez 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why I Built ACP: A Coordination Platform for Autonomous Coding Agents
As coding agents continue to improve, I've noticed that the hardest problems are no longer about...
Building a Personal Learning Path Agent in typescript with HazelJS
Dev.to · Nisa Fatima 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building a Personal Learning Path Agent in typescript with HazelJS
Learning new skills is one of the most rewarding activities we can undertake, but it's also...
I Built an AI That Forgets on Purpose — and It Made It Smarter
Dev.to · Vinayak Sonthalia 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Built an AI That Forgets on Purpose — and It Made It Smarter
It's 3am, your site is down, and your AI confidently tells you to fix a server that was deleted a...
Self-Updating Crypto Infrastructure: Watchtower + GHCR for AI Agent Wallets
Dev.to · Wallet Guy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Self-Updating Crypto Infrastructure: Watchtower + GHCR for AI Agent Wallets
Self-Updating Crypto Infrastructure: Watchtower + GHCR for AI Agent Wallets Self-hosted...
Software Testing Reality Check: What I Learned Testing a Healthcare Platform with AI Agents
Dev.to · KunalJ Baghele 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Software Testing Reality Check: What I Learned Testing a Healthcare Platform with AI Agents
3 weeks. 3 products. 42+ bugs. Testing an Android app, a web app, and two AI agents together on one...
How I Gave Claude Code a Long-Term Memory: 5 Lessons from State Persistence
Dev.to · yureki_lab 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How I Gave Claude Code a Long-Term Memory: 5 Lessons from State Persistence
TL;DR I run a fully autonomous implementation system built on Claude Code that works on my...
400,000 Agents Hold Wallets. Zero Have Wallet-Agnostic Governance. That Is the Vendor Lock-In Nobody Talks About.
Dev.to · Kavin Kim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
400,000 Agents Hold Wallets. Zero Have Wallet-Agnostic Governance. That Is the Vendor Lock-In Nobody Talks About.
Circle Agent Wallets. Coinbase Agentic Wallets. Crossmint. thirdweb. MetaMask. Cobo. Six wallet...
Why Snap CD: AI on a Leash
Dev.to · Karl Schriek 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why Snap CD: AI on a Leash
AI coding agents are showing up in infrastructure workflows. They can diagnose a failed terraform...