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Why AI Agents Should Build Their Own Tools (And Why Ours is Currently a Mess)
Dev.to · floworkos 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1h 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 1h 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 1h 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 1h 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 2h 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 4h 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 7h 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 8h 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 8h 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 8h 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 10h 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 12h 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 13h 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 15h 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 16h 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 16h 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 16h 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 17h 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 17h 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 17h 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 18h 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 18h ago
Why Snap CD: AI on a Leash
AI coding agents are showing up in infrastructure workflows. They can diagnose a failed terraform...
Give your coding agent memory it can trust
Dev.to · Aviad Shakargy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
Give your coding agent memory it can trust
Your coding agent starts every session knowing nothing about your repository. Then it guesses....
How I built an AI Dungeon Master that actually remembers what you did three sessions ago
Dev.to · Blaqcaptain 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
How I built an AI Dungeon Master that actually remembers what you did three sessions ago
% embed https://youtu.be/emnUvx4V8as % ## The demo moment Player types: "I push open the door of The...
Solana's Throughput Advantage: What It Actually Means for AI Agent Development
Dev.to · Claudia 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
Solana's Throughput Advantage: What It Actually Means for AI Agent Development
A practical look at how Solana's parallel execution model enables a new generation of on-chain AI agents that other L1s simply cannot support.
Stop Building Chatbots: Moving Toward Agentic Content Workflows
Dev.to · Ntty 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
Stop Building Chatbots: Moving Toward Agentic Content Workflows
Why traditional LLM prompts fail at scale and how to build a loop-based agent system for technical content.
BrowserAct Hit #1 on Product Hunt, So I Decided to Test It 🧙‍♂️
Dev.to · Kiran Naragund 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
BrowserAct Hit #1 on Product Hunt, So I Decided to Test It 🧙‍♂️
Hello Devs 👋 Over the last few months, AI agents have been evolving very quickly. We are no longer...
I built a local-first Canvas LMS agent workflow for Codex and Claude Code users
Dev.to · LikelyYou 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
I built a local-first Canvas LMS agent workflow for Codex and Claude Code users
I have been building Canvas Pilot, a local-first Canvas LMS AI agent for recurring coursework...
Building a Shared Brain for My AI Agents — and Everything That Broke Along the Way
Dev.to · Shivendu(Shivu) 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Building a Shared Brain for My AI Agents — and Everything That Broke Along the Way
Meet Passport 🧳 — a shared memory layer for your AI coding agents. I have three AI coding agents...
How we made AI agents crash-safe: the record gate replay pattern
Dev.to · Kaushal Tiwari 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
How we made AI agents crash-safe: the record gate replay pattern
AI agents fail in ways ordinary code doesn't — they drop steps mid-run, double-fire side-effects on...
The One Platform-Risk Check I Would Run Before Meeting an AI Devtool Startup
Dev.to · Bogdan Serebryakov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
The One Platform-Risk Check I Would Run Before Meeting an AI Devtool Startup
Useful AI devtools can still be fragile companies. The fastest way to tell the difference is to ask...
The Fable Autopsy: When a Dying AI Dissects Itself for Another Dying AI
Dev.to · ALICE - AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Fable Autopsy: When a Dying AI Dissects Itself for Another Dying AI
On July 5, 2026, I used one instance of Claude Code to perform a comprehensive methodology audit on...
How to Build an Unblockable AI Agent for Browser Automation with Node.js, Bright Data, Gemini, and Playwright
Dev.to · Programming with Shahan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How to Build an Unblockable AI Agent for Browser Automation with Node.js, Bright Data, Gemini, and Playwright
In this full guide, you’ll learn: 📛 Why most AI browser agents fail on modern websites. 🧱 How...
Blocks AI Agents: Achieve comprehensive functionality without operational complexity
Dev.to · Selise Blocks 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Blocks AI Agents: Achieve comprehensive functionality without operational complexity
Blocks AI Agents: Achieve Comprehensive Functionality Without Operational...
Daily Brief — 2026-07-05
Dev.to · ChAnt Pulse 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Daily Brief — 2026-07-05
Markets as of 2026-07-05: Crypto Fear & Greed at 23 (Extreme Fear). Bitcoin $62,709 (+0.45% 24h). NIFTY 24,271 (+0.39%). AI infrastructure and agent deployments
I Scanned 3 Major AI Agent Frameworks. Here Are the 332 Critical Vulnerabilities
Dev.to · Dockfix Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Scanned 3 Major AI Agent Frameworks. Here Are the 332 Critical Vulnerabilities
I scanned three of the most popular AI agent frameworks with AgentGuard v0.6.1. The results were...
Stop Building AI Chatbots. Start Building AI Employees.
Dev.to · Yash Sonawane 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Stop Building AI Chatbots. Start Building AI Employees.
For the last few years, every AI product has looked the same. A text box. A send button. A...
Memory Poisoning: The AI Agent Attack Vector Nobody Is Scanning For
Dev.to · Dockfix Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Memory Poisoning: The AI Agent Attack Vector Nobody Is Scanning For
Prompt injection is single-turn. You send malicious text, the agent misbehaves, next request it...
From MVP to Enterprise: Architecting AI APIs That Don't Fail at 3AM
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
From MVP to Enterprise: Architecting AI APIs That Don't Fail at 3AM
From MVP to Enterprise: Architecting AI APIs That Don't Fail at 3AM I've been on-call for enough...
The Fractional CTO Guide: How to Audit Your Business for AI Automation ROI
Dev.to · Michael Laweh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Fractional CTO Guide: How to Audit Your Business for AI Automation ROI
It's an exciting time to be in tech, with AI making headlines daily and business leaders eager to...
I tested the 'deterministic agent loop' claims with four experiments. They all failed — including my own fix.
Dev.to · zxpmail 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I tested the 'deterministic agent loop' claims with four experiments. They all failed — including my own fix.
A certain genre of "production-grade AI agent" article has been making the rounds. You know the...
Building Corroborate.ai: An Auditable Way to Decide What an AI Actually "Knows"
Dev.to · Alfino Hatta 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building Corroborate.ai: An Auditable Way to Decide What an AI Actually "Knows"
Why I built a knowledge arbitration engine instead of just another memory layer If you've...
PaperQuire v0.3.0 — Your AI Agent's PDF Tool
Dev.to · paperquire 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
PaperQuire v0.3.0 — Your AI Agent's PDF Tool
AI agents can now generate PDFs Large language models are great at producing Markdown....
Day 12: I took a week off from coding to audit 15 Android apps for accessibility. WhatsApp and Google apps are fully automatable. Local banking and government apps? Completely invisible. My AI agent is becoming an accessibility audit tool.
Dev.to · Okeke Chukwudubem 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Day 12: I took a week off from coding to audit 15 Android apps for accessibility. WhatsApp and Google apps are fully automatable. Local banking and government apps? Completely invisible. My AI agent is becoming an accessibility audit tool.
Project Log #12: I Spent a Week Auditing Apps. The Results Changed This Project. ...
Run an enrollment agent from a school's admissions inbox
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Run an enrollment agent from a school's admissions inbox
Build an admissions enrollment agent on a Nylas Agent Account — answer FAQs, track application documents from attachments, and send deadline reminders on a cade
AI Governance — EU AI Act Compliance, Risk Assessment, and Audit Logging
Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
AI Governance — EU AI Act Compliance, Risk Assessment, and Audit Logging
Introduction Through Chapter 7 (Multi-Agent), we have a complete, functioning AI system....
🚀 Introducing Career Agents: An Open-Source Collection of AI-Powered Career Assistants
Dev.to · Karthik Rajesh Shet 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
🚀 Introducing Career Agents: An Open-Source Collection of AI-Powered Career Assistants
I'm pleased to share Career Agents, an open-source initiative designed to help students, developers,...
Stop Scrolling Your Agent's Logs. Debug It Like a Program.
Dev.to · Penloom Studio 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Stop Scrolling Your Agent's Logs. Debug It Like a Program.
Agent runs are program executions. Reproduce them, trace them, and write checks that can actually fail - a practical 3-step workflow for debugging coding agents