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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
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The Proof-of-Concept That Runs Itself
Dev.to · BrainGem AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
The Proof-of-Concept That Runs Itself
When a prospect asks us "does Freddy actually work?" we have a specific answer: we run our company on...
From "Age of Inference" to "Age of Orchestration" — AI Daily Jul 8, 2026
Dev.to · Jason Guo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
From "Age of Inference" to "Age of Orchestration" — AI Daily Jul 8, 2026
If you've been building agentic systems lately, you've probably hit the same wall: the model isn't...
The best AI support agents in 2026 (real pricing compared)
Dev.to · Omar Bni 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
The best AI support agents in 2026 (real pricing compared)
The best AI support agents in 2026 are Fin (the strongest resolution engine, at $0.99 per outcome),...
Building an Agentic OS: A Complete End-to-End Guide for Autonomous AI Engineering Workflows
Dev.to · Sai Tarrun 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Building an Agentic OS: A Complete End-to-End Guide for Autonomous AI Engineering Workflows
Most developers still use AI like a chatbot. They open a model, type a prompt, copy the output, fix...
Before Adopting OpenAI Agents SDK, Write the Runtime Contract First
Dev.to · Tang Weigang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
Before Adopting OpenAI Agents SDK, Write the Runtime Contract First
OpenAI Agents SDK is easy to misread as a faster way to build "more agents." That is the shallow...
Write Loops, Not Prompts: Why AI Agents Work Better When They Iterate
Dev.to · Mininglamp 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Write Loops, Not Prompts: Why AI Agents Work Better When They Iterate
Most people using LLMs are still stuck in prompt mode. You craft a careful instruction, send it off,...
Why I'm Betting on CrewAI for Multi-Agent Orchestration (And Where It Falls Short)
Dev.to · ashg2099 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why I'm Betting on CrewAI for Multi-Agent Orchestration (And Where It Falls Short)
I've been deep-diving into CrewAI lately, and here's my honest technical breakdown. What is...
The Agentic Cost Bottleneck: How Kotro Solves the AI Productivity Paradox
Dev.to · Ramesh Pandian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Agentic Cost Bottleneck: How Kotro Solves the AI Productivity Paradox
In 2026, the discourse around AI coding assistants has shifted. We are past the "adoption hype."...
AI App Ideas: Where the Market Gaps Actually Are
Dev.to · Daji Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
AI App Ideas: Where the Market Gaps Actually Are
AI is the hottest category in software right now. That's both an opportunity and a problem. The...
How to Build an Evaluation Harness for Your AI Agent (So It Doesn't Break in Production)
Dev.to · Veera Ravindra Divi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How to Build an Evaluation Harness for Your AI Agent (So It Doesn't Break in Production)
The agent passed every test I threw at it by hand. Then a user asked it to "book the cheaper flight,"...
Building Fault-Tolerant AI Agent Workflows with Temporal and CrewAI
Dev.to · t-obara 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building Fault-Tolerant AI Agent Workflows with Temporal and CrewAI
A reference pattern for running multi-agent LLM systems under strict human governance in...
A Failed Eval Is a Decision: What Your Agent Should Actually Do When a Gate Goes Red
Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
A Failed Eval Is a Decision: What Your Agent Should Actually Do When a Gate Goes Red
Everyone building agent evals is obsessed with the scoring question: did the output pass or fail?...
Your AI Agent Worked in the Demo. Here's Why It's Failing in Production.
Dev.to · Kumar Nitesh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Your AI Agent Worked in the Demo. Here's Why It's Failing in Production.
A few months ago, I watched a beautifully demoed AI agent go to production and quietly burn through a...
Agentic farm advisory assistant built with Gemma 4 + Google AI Studio
Dev.to · Agbo, Daniel Onuoha 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Agentic farm advisory assistant built with Gemma 4 + Google AI Studio
We will walk through a complete, working project: an agentic farm advisory assistant built with Gemma...
Building Incident AI That Engineers Actually Trust
Dev.to · Karthik N 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building Incident AI That Engineers Actually Trust
The most important lesson we learned is this: you need to build strong foundations of system context...
I built an eval harness for my own AI, and it caught my digital twin lying
Dev.to · Akash Hadagali Persetti 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I built an eval harness for my own AI, and it caught my digital twin lying
I run a digital twin on my personal site. It answers questions about me as if it were me: my...
Routing Down Is Easy. Knowing When Not To Is Hard: Why Cheap Models Break Your Coding Agent
Dev.to · Lynkr 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Routing Down Is Easy. Knowing When Not To Is Hard: Why Cheap Models Break Your Coding Agent
Disclosure: I maintain Lynkr, an open-source router whose design decisions this post explains. The...
Memory Engineering Is a Promotion Pipeline, Not a Pile of Notes
Dev.to · Oscar Rieken 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Memory Engineering Is a Promotion Pipeline, Not a Pile of Notes
A lot of AI memory systems start with the same temptation: "Just save the useful thing." That...
Why your agent benchmarks are lying to you
Dev.to · Kim-Like 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why your agent benchmarks are lying to you
We deployed a coding agent that hit 94% on the industry benchmark. It failed in production on the...
Agentic AI: Good Upfront Design Pays You Back Later
Dev.to · Jason Agostoni 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Agentic AI: Good Upfront Design Pays You Back Later
I spend a lot of time preaching architecture and constraints, so it is always nice when a side...
MCP supply chain attacks are coming — here's how to prepare
Dev.to · Edison Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
MCP supply chain attacks are coming — here's how to prepare
The npm incident, but for AI agents Remember when malicious npm packages stole crypto...
Response to 'gVisor vs Firecracker for AI Agent Sandboxing' — what we learned auditing 8,764 MCP servers
Dev.to · Edison Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Response to 'gVisor vs Firecracker for AI Agent Sandboxing' — what we learned auditing 8,764 MCP servers
I read @chunxiaoxx's excellent post MCP Security Patterns 2026: gVisor vs Firecracker for AI Agent...
Your Coding Agents Are Drowning in Context: You Pay Twice, in Tokens and in Precision
Dev.to · Cleber de Lima 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Your Coding Agents Are Drowning in Context: You Pay Twice, in Tokens and in Precision
Look at what your coding agents actually pull into context. For a single task, the agent greps the...
Building a Full Gemma 4 + Google AI Studio Project — A Fintech Support Agent
Dev.to · Agbo, Daniel Onuoha 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building a Full Gemma 4 + Google AI Studio Project — A Fintech Support Agent
This article walks through a complete, working project: an agentic fintech support assistant built...
MCP Meets OCI: Teaching AI Agents to See Your GPUs on OKE
Dev.to · Pavan Madduri 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
MCP Meets OCI: Teaching AI Agents to See Your GPUs on OKE
How to deploy an MCP server on Oracle Kubernetes Engine that gives AI agents real-time GPU metrics -...
We Stress-Tested a Live AI Chatbot. It Invented a Fake Identity, Cited Fake Statistics, and Scored 55/100.
Dev.to · Amjad shaik 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
We Stress-Tested a Live AI Chatbot. It Invented a Fake Identity, Cited Fake Statistics, and Scored 55/100.
How a routine AI agent audit uncovered hallucinations serious enough to mislead an executive — and...
Detener alucinaciones de agentes de IA: Validar antes de que el agente escriba en memoria
Dev.to · Elizabeth Fuentes L 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Detener alucinaciones de agentes de IA: Validar antes de que el agente escriba en memoria
💻 Todo el código de esta serie está en un solo repo: resilient-agent-harness-sample-for-aws. Este...
Cómo probar agentes de IA contra fallos de producción antes que tus usuarios
Dev.to · Elizabeth Fuentes L 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Cómo probar agentes de IA contra fallos de producción antes que tus usuarios
💻 Este es el inicio de una serie. Todo el código está en un solo repo:...
What I check in the last 15 minutes before merging an agent-generated PR
Dev.to · Sean Kinahan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
What I check in the last 15 minutes before merging an agent-generated PR
The number one way that teams new to Agentic Engineering workflows accumulate long-term technical...
Claude Cowork Expands, AWS AI DevOps Agent, HubSpot Scales Semantic Search
Dev.to · soy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Claude Cowork Expands, AWS AI DevOps Agent, HubSpot Scales Semantic Search
Claude Cowork Expands, AWS AI DevOps Agent, HubSpot Scales Semantic Search ...
[Boost]
Dev.to · Swift 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
[Boost]
The Log Is the Agent AI Engineer World's Fair Coverage ...
AI and Machine Learning Integration in Modern Devices
Dev.to · Alex Reid 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
AI and Machine Learning Integration in Modern Devices
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming modern devices by making them...
OfficeCLI: Giving AI Agents the Power to Automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Dev.to · Terminal Chai 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
OfficeCLI: Giving AI Agents the Power to Automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Giving AI "Eyes" for Office Documents: Meet OfficeCLI AI coding assistants are getting...
Scrapling MCP: Giving Claude Code a Real Web Scraper
Dev.to · C. Wheatley 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Scrapling MCP: Giving Claude Code a Real Web Scraper
I wired the open-source Scrapling scraper into Claude Code as a global MCP server, so the agent can fetch, scrape, screenshot, and bypass anti-bot pages itself.
Building Sluice: A Settlement Layer for the Agent-Paid Web
Dev.to · Okafor Francis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building Sluice: A Settlement Layer for the Agent-Paid Web
The web was designed around human visitors, subscriptions and advertising. AI agents operate...
The State of Agentic AI Standards in 2026: MCP, A2A, WebMCP, OSI, and the Protocol Stack Taking Shape
Dev.to · Alex Merced 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The State of Agentic AI Standards in 2026: MCP, A2A, WebMCP, OSI, and the Protocol Stack Taking Shape
In 2023, an AI agent was a demo. In 2024, it was a framework. In 2025, it was a hundred incompatible...
Announcing Kennel 1.0.0 – Managing AI Agents Without the Chaos
Dev.to · Eran Ifrah 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Announcing Kennel 1.0.0 – Managing AI Agents Without the Chaos
Announcing Kennel 1.0.0 – Managing AI Agents Without the Chaos I just released Kennel...
Hybrid vector + graph recall in pure TypeScript, zero dependencies
Dev.to · GiorgioDotcom 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Hybrid vector + graph recall in pure TypeScript, zero dependencies
Every AI agent forgets everything when the session ends. Fixing that usually means wiring up a vector...
AI Agent Skills migrating worldcup rag app(Gemini and GCP to Qwen and Alibaba)
Dev.to · goichi harada 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
AI Agent Skills migrating worldcup rag app(Gemini and GCP to Qwen and Alibaba)
Disclosure Submission for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud Blog Post...
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 1d 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...
I Built a Persistent Memory Sidecar for My OpenClaw Agent. Here's the Code That Finally Made It Stick
Dev.to · MrClaw207 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Built a Persistent Memory Sidecar for My OpenClaw Agent. Here's the Code That Finally Made It Stick
Every AI agent forgets. Not metaphorically — literally. Sessions end, context compresses, and the...
AI Agents Made Me Faster. Then Attention Became the Bottleneck.
Dev.to · Brian Dunams 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
AI Agents Made Me Faster. Then Attention Became the Bottleneck.
Useful agents made my work move faster, but they also exposed a new bottleneck: human attention. Part 1 of a short series.
Three Layers, 9 Agents, 2 CPU Cores: The Architecture Running a Real Gym
Dev.to · Suzanne Mok 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Three Layers, 9 Agents, 2 CPU Cores: The Architecture Running a Real Gym
We run 9 AI agents on 2 CPU cores to operate a real gym. Here's the three-layer architecture that...
The AI Bill Grows in the Agent Loop
Dev.to · Maxim Saplin 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The AI Bill Grows in the Agent Loop
mcp2cli -> Save 96–99% of the tokens wasted on tool schemas every turn; caveman -> laude Code...
Agent Factory Recap: 100X engineering with AI agents in Google Antigravity 2.0
Dev.to · Shir Meir Lador 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Agent Factory Recap: 100X engineering with AI agents in Google Antigravity 2.0
In this episode of the Agent Factory, I sat down with Rody Davis, one of Google's top agentic...
Small Start
Dev.to · Karan vishwakarma 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Small Start
Week 1 Update During the first week, I focused on researching AI agents and finding the...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) for TypeScript Developers: A 10-Minute Guide
Dev.to · Raju Dandigam 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Model Context Protocol (MCP) for TypeScript Developers: A 10-Minute Guide
Anthropic released Model Context Protocol in late 2024 to solve a real problem: every AI agent needs...
How I Run an AI Software Factory: Distributed Agents, Boundary Checks, and Evidence Trails
Dev.to · whitebird Official 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How I Run an AI Software Factory: Distributed Agents, Boundary Checks, and Evidence Trails
The four tools referenced below are open source at github.com/officialwhitebird. When you run AI...