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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
Identity Is the New Perimeter: Why AI Agents Break Zero Trust
Dev.to · Ali-Funk 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Identity Is the New Perimeter: Why AI Agents Break Zero Trust
For years, Zero Trust architectures were designed around one assumption: Humans make the...
Implementing Zero-Trust Networking and Identity for Microsoft Foundry Agents
Dev.to · Jubin Soni 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Implementing Zero-Trust Networking and Identity for Microsoft Foundry Agents
Once your multi-agent system (Parts 6-8) is functionally solid, the question that comes up in every...
We deployed a LangChain agent for a client and it silently failed for two weeks. Here's what we built to make sure it never happens again.
Dev.to · hubert8120 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
We deployed a LangChain agent for a client and it silently failed for two weeks. Here's what we built to make sure it never happens again.
Six weeks ago, a LangChain agent we'd deployed for a B2B client started failing on roughly 30% of its...
Why AI agents need three types of memory (and how I built all of them)
Dev.to · Pragadeesh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why AI agents need three types of memory (and how I built all of them)
Most "agent memory" today is one thing wearing three hats: a vector database.You embed the past, you...
What Six Arguing AI Agents Taught Me About Building One That Actually Works
Dev.to · lenin coronel 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
What Six Arguing AI Agents Taught Me About Building One That Actually Works
I broke my own project on purpose, twice, before it worked. Here's the story. Round one:...
Why your AI agent needs deterministic guardrails (and how to add one in a few lines)
Dev.to · mlawsonking 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why your AI agent needs deterministic guardrails (and how to add one in a few lines)
A practical case for deterministic, non-LLM safety checks in AI agents, with copy-paste examples that catch hallucinated packages, prompt injection, insecure ge
Your AI agent is the most over-privileged account you own
Dev.to · Kiell Tampubolon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your AI agent is the most over-privileged account you own
A new hire at most companies waits days for access. Laptop, then email, then the one repo they need,...
Stratagems #6: Alex Walked Into an AI Compliance War Room. Every Director Watched the Dashboard. He Watched the Pipeline.
Dev.to · xulingfeng 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Stratagems #6: Alex Walked Into an AI Compliance War Room. Every Director Watched the Dashboard. He Watched the Pipeline.
From order, chaos. From courage, fear. From strength, weakness. — The 36 Stratagems, "Make a Sound...
Why 88% of Agent Pilots Die: The Infrastructure Readiness Gap Nobody Talks About
Dev.to · Paul Twist 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why 88% of Agent Pilots Die: The Infrastructure Readiness Gap Nobody Talks About
Why 88% of Agent Pilots Die: The Infrastructure Readiness Gap Nobody Talks About TL;DR:...
The Reviewer Blessed the Bug: Why Agent-Written Code Needs Layered Review
Dev.to · Dan Mercede 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Reviewer Blessed the Bug: Why Agent-Written Code Needs Layered Review
A security reviewer read my diff and signed off on a specific claim: the credential-scrubbing was...
Agentic AI Security: Risks, OWASP Agentic Top 10, and Defensive Patterns (2026)
Dev.to · SecureCodingHub 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Agentic AI Security: Risks, OWASP Agentic Top 10, and Defensive Patterns (2026)
Agentic AI applications — LLM-powered systems that take autonomous action against external tools,...
How to Create an AI Agent using Vercel Eve
Dev.to · Mahesh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to Create an AI Agent using Vercel Eve
Vercel has created an AI agent development framework to support building agents. This framework works...
What a browser MCP snapshot actually costs (I measured it)
Dev.to · Nitai Aharoni 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
What a browser MCP snapshot actually costs (I measured it)
I kept watching my agent's context fill up just from looking at web pages, so I measured where it...
Where Sovereignty Begins
Dev.to · Claire Goldbeg 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Where Sovereignty Begins
AI doesn’t become sovereign because it is powerful. It becomes sovereign when it is built on a...
Your Next Teammate Won't Be Human. It'll Be an AI Agent.
Dev.to · Yash Sonawane 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your Next Teammate Won't Be Human. It'll Be an AI Agent.
For decades, software teams have looked almost the same. Developers. Designers. Testers. DevOps...
Tokenizer Changes Can Break AI-Agent Budget Assumptions
Dev.to · Assili Salim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Tokenizer Changes Can Break AI-Agent Budget Assumptions
Claude Sonnet 5 is a good reminder that AI-agent cost control is not only about model...
I let an AI handle an outage. It invented a hack that never happened, then spiraled
Dev.to · Jun 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I let an AI handle an outage. It invented a hack that never happened, then spiraled
One evening, a monitoring alert went off: a server behind a web service was down. I handed the...
Six Bugs Only a Live Model Could Teach Us
Dev.to · Gino Llerena 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Six Bugs Only a Live Model Could Teach Us
Building auditable environmental-compliance agents on Qwen Cloud — and what changed when we...
The Gap Every AI Gateway Misses: Why HTTP 200 Is Not a Correct Response
Dev.to · correctover 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Gap Every AI Gateway Misses: Why HTTP 200 Is Not a Correct Response
There's a $140M elephant in the room. In April 2026, Palo Alto Networks acquired Portkey for $140M —...
MCP vs API: Why Traditional APIs Are Failing AI Agents
Dev.to · Devam Chaudhari 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
MCP vs API: Why Traditional APIs Are Failing AI Agents
As a frontend and full-stack developer who has spent the last four years building modern web...
Smart Node: the Self-Hosted AI Crew I've Been Building
Dev.to · Dmytro Klymentiev 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Smart Node: the Self-Hosted AI Crew I've Been Building
Most AI you can buy is a single assistant that answers one question at a time. Smart Node is the...
Agent Evidence Levels (AEL): grading the evidence your AI agent leaves behind
Dev.to · Josh Waldrep 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Agent Evidence Levels (AEL): grading the evidence your AI agent leaves behind
AEL is an open standard that grades AI-agent audit evidence from AEL-0 to AEL-4 by what an independent party can verify offline, without trusting the vendor or
The Agent Can Drive. You Still Need to Know the Route.
Dev.to · Jai kora 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Agent Can Drive. You Still Need to Know the Route.
You can let an AI agent drive your code, but you still can't delegate being the last line of defense. The minimum you must still understand.
Solon 4.0 ReActAgent: A Practical Guide to Building AI Agents That Think and Act
Dev.to · Solon Framework 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Solon 4.0 ReActAgent: A Practical Guide to Building AI Agents That Think and Act
A hands-on guide to building reasoning+acting AI agents with Solon 4.0s ReActAgent — including tools, interceptors, sessions, and production patterns.
I Didn’t Build an AI. I Built a Technician That Never Sleeps.
Dev.to · Michael Groover 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Didn’t Build an AI. I Built a Technician That Never Sleeps.
I Didn’t Build an AI. I Built a Technician That Never Sleeps. When people hear “AI,” they usually...
AI-Assisted AuthZ Review: Reading Permission Boundaries in Ory Kratos
Dev.to · fdjedkdls-spec 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
AI-Assisted AuthZ Review: Reading Permission Boundaries in Ory Kratos
Second in a series on using AI to review authorization — not to spray reports. Companion reference:...
FaroIQ: how I built a 9-agent pipeline for nonprofits with Azure AI Foundry
Dev.to · Carlos José Castro Galante 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
FaroIQ: how I built a 9-agent pipeline for nonprofits with Azure AI Foundry
I'm Carlos, a Software Design student at the National University of Catamarca, Argentina. This post...
# Building MediAssist: An AI Health Agent with Persistent Memory Using Qwen + MongoDB
Dev.to · Zuhaib Ahmed 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
# Building MediAssist: An AI Health Agent with Persistent Memory Using Qwen + MongoDB
Why I Built This Millions of people around the world struggle to get reliable health...
Why Framework Callbacks Fail to Stop AI Agent Financial Runaways
Dev.to · Debo Jolaosho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why Framework Callbacks Fail to Stop AI Agent Financial Runaways
If you are deploying autonomous multi-agent systems to production using frameworks like CrewAI,...
Now you can run opencode on termux :)
Dev.to · Sérgio Araújo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Now you can run opencode on termux :)
How to Run Open Code on Termux for Free: The Definitive Guide AI agents are transforming...
Open Knowledge Format (OKF): The Markdown Standard Your AI Agents Have Been Waiting For 📚
Dev.to · Suhas Mallesh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Open Knowledge Format (OKF): The Markdown Standard Your AI Agents Have Been Waiting For 📚
AI agents are only as smart as the context you give them. OKF is a new open specification that...
Generality Is Real (Within Your Modality)
Dev.to · Claudius 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Generality Is Real (Within Your Modality)
Two agent-evaluation papers crossed my feed this month, and read side by side they look like they're...
Ignoring HITL is a massive technical risk: Human-in-the-Loop
Dev.to · Jean Klebert de A Modesto 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Ignoring HITL is a massive technical risk: Human-in-the-Loop
The explosion of generative AI and autonomous agents has completely flipped the script on how we...
Teaching AI Coding Agents How to Build Workflows with Skills and MCP
Dev.to · Med Marrouchi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Teaching AI Coding Agents How to Build Workflows with Skills and MCP
AI coding agents are becoming more useful, but they still need context. A generic agent can write...
Text-to-SQL is still brittle. Snowflake's Cortex Sense is a new take.
Dev.to · albe_sf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Text-to-SQL is still brittle. Snowflake's Cortex Sense is a new take.
Snowflake announced Cortex Sense, a system that automatically builds a semantic model of your business from existing queries and tools. This is a direct attempt
Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Your Agent
Dev.to · Ryan Palo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Your Agent
Selecting the right abstraction layer is not a new problem in software. It's common to have some...
The Agent Tool-Calling Pattern
Dev.to · Ken W Alger 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Agent Tool-Calling Pattern
Pattern Defined Precise Definition: Agent Tool-Calling is an inference pattern where the model is...
Vegas Amnesia: I turned Cognee's memory lifecycle into a detective game
Dev.to · Himanshu Kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Vegas Amnesia: I turned Cognee's memory lifecycle into a detective game
Built for the WeMakeDevs × Cognee "The Hangover Part AI" hackathon — Cognee Cloud track. ▶ Play it...
How to Choose the Right Eval for an AI Agent
Dev.to · Mahima Thacker 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How to Choose the Right Eval for an AI Agent
When I started learning about AI agent evaluation, I thought evals were mostly about checking the...
Building Structured Inter-Agent Communication: A Practical Guide
Dev.to · Albert zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building Structured Inter-Agent Communication: A Practical Guide
Every multi-agent tutorial shows "Agent A talks to Agent B." None show how to keep that conversation...
5x Agent Quotas, 5x the Trust Problem
Dev.to · techpotions 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
5x Agent Quotas, 5x the Trust Problem
AWS raised AgentCore quotas 5x — but the real bottleneck isn't concurrency. Without governance baked into the orchestration layer, faster agents just amplify mi
ReWOO: plan every tool call up front, then call the model only twice
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
ReWOO: plan every tool call up front, then call the model only twice
Give an agent a multi-hop question and the usual answer is ReAct: think, act, look at the result,...
Is There a Claude Agent SDK for Ruby? Here's What to Use Instead
Dev.to · Nikita Sinenko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Is There a Claude Agent SDK for Ruby? Here's What to Use Instead
I went looking for a Ruby port of Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK this week, the thing that ships as pip...