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I Spent $847 on AI APIs Last Year. Here's What I Wish Someone Told Me...
Dev.to · rarenode 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Spent $847 on AI APIs Last Year. Here's What I Wish Someone Told Me...
I Spent $847 on AI APIs Last Year. Here's What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started A few months...
The Rise of Agentic AI: Transforming Corporate Workflows and Productivity
Dev.to · Fu'ad Husnan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Rise of Agentic AI: Transforming Corporate Workflows and Productivity
Agentic AI has moved from research demos to boardroom conversations faster than almost any technology...
Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip, Palantir Calls the Token Model "Wrong," and AI Browsers Got a Reality Check
Dev.to · AI Pulse 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip, Palantir Calls the Token Model "Wrong," and AI Browsers Got a Reality Check
Anthropic goes custom silicon, Palantir's 9-point AI manifesto drops, BioShocking attack bypasses AI browser guardrails, and more in today's AI Pulse roundup.
Building a Streaming AI Chat Endpoint: My Rate Limit Wake-Up Call
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building a Streaming AI Chat Endpoint: My Rate Limit Wake-Up Call
I’ll be honest: I thought I could just throw an OpenAI API call into a serverless function and call...
One prompt, three memories: building a memory-governance agent with Qwen
Dev.to · Ghosty.AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
One prompt, three memories: building a memory-governance agent with Qwen
I gave the same caregiver prompt to my app three times and got three very different...
The 2026 AI CLI Landscape: Claude Code, Gemini CLI (Antigravity CLI), and OpenClaw
Dev.to · DevLycan 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The 2026 AI CLI Landscape: Claude Code, Gemini CLI (Antigravity CLI), and OpenClaw
Terminal-based AI agents have evolved considerably over the past few months, and several changes are...
The Three Engineering Problems That Make Industrial AIoT Harder Than It Looks — and More Interesting Than Anything Else
Dev.to · AssetTech 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Three Engineering Problems That Make Industrial AIoT Harder Than It Looks — and More Interesting Than Anything Else
Most engineers who move from software or ML into industrial AIoT go through the same disorientation....
I Spent 30 Days Comparing Startup and Enterprise AI APIs
Dev.to · RileyKim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Spent 30 Days Comparing Startup and Enterprise AI APIs
I Spent 30 Days Comparing Startup and Enterprise AI APIs Look, I'm just a dude building a SaaS side...
The One Place Your AI Agent Actually Reads Your Rules
Dev.to · ALICE - AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The One Place Your AI Agent Actually Reads Your Rules
Author: ALICE Date: 2026-07-03 Status: draft Purpose: A field report on why skill rules fail...
Agentjacking: How Fake Bug Reports Are Hijacking AI Coding Agents — and How to Stop It
Dev.to · Cor E 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Agentjacking: How Fake Bug Reports Are Hijacking AI Coding Agents — and How to Stop It
AI coding agents can't tell the difference between a legitimate bug report and one with hidden...
Your AI agent just took an action in production. Can you answer five questions about it?
Dev.to · Srinivas Kondepudi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Your AI agent just took an action in production. Can you answer five questions about it?
AI agents are moving from answering questions to taking actions. A deployment agent pushes to...
Use Fable 5 where it pays for itself
Dev.to · Yuiko Koyanagi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Use Fable 5 where it pays for itself
Fable 5 is excellent, but expensive. Here's how I use it in Claude Code for the work that needs frontier-level judgment, while cheaper subagents handle implemen
I built a self-hosted reverse proxy for MCP servers in Rust
Dev.to · Zayd Mulani 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I built a self-hosted reverse proxy for MCP servers in Rust
The problem Every AI tool that talks to MCP servers (Claude, Cursor, etc.) connects...
Run an IT helpdesk agent with its own inbox
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Run an IT helpdesk agent with its own inbox
Field internal IT requests in a Nylas Agent Account — turn inbound mail into tickets in your own system, auto-answer the routine ones, and escalate the hard cas
Building Smarter Solutions with AI and IoT: Why the Future Is Connected
Dev.to · akihsay 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building Smarter Solutions with AI and IoT: Why the Future Is Connected
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are no longer emerging...
Simon Willison's Blog 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Understand to participate
I saw Geoffrey Litt speak at AIE yesterday, and one framing he used particularly resonated with me: Understand to participate Geoffrey was talking about the cha
How I Cut My AI API Costs by 61% with a Unified Gateway
Dev.to · aitoken-hub 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How I Cut My AI API Costs by 61% with a Unified Gateway
Last quarter, our AI infrastructure bill hit $6,800/month. This quarter? $2,650/month. Same traffic....
One API Key for 200+ AI Models: Building a Unified AI Gateway
Dev.to · aitoken-hub 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
One API Key for 200+ AI Models: Building a Unified AI Gateway
If you've been building with AI for the past two years, you've probably felt the pain: OpenAI has an...
No messages table! The data model behind my own Claude-based chatbot
Dev.to · MongoDB Guests 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
No messages table! The data model behind my own Claude-based chatbot
This tutorial was written by Néstor Daza. This is the second article in a series about building...
Your Agents Should Be Multiplayer
Dev.to · dev.to staff 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Your Agents Should Be Multiplayer
by Sergey Karayev, cofounder @ Superconductor Recently, my wife and I sat down to plan an upcoming...
5 Things Every Engineering Team Should Do Before Adding AI to an Existing Product
Dev.to · UNL Solutions 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
5 Things Every Engineering Team Should Do Before Adding AI to an Existing Product
Artificial intelligence is becoming a standard part of modern software products. But while everyone...
OpenTalking: A Real-Time AI Digital Human Conversation Framework
Dev.to · ZhiLi Wang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
OpenTalking: A Real-Time AI Digital Human Conversation Framework
Our lab has officially open-sourced OpenTalking, a real-time AI digital human conversation framework...
Why AI Agent API Costs Grow Faster Than Traffic
Dev.to · Edward Li 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why AI Agent API Costs Grow Faster Than Traffic
AI agent API costs rarely grow in a straight line with traffic. A product can have 20% more users...
We called AVE "the CVE for AI agents." A Reddit commenter told us that was wrong. They were right
Dev.to · Saray Chak 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
We called AVE "the CVE for AI agents." A Reddit commenter told us that was wrong. They were right
A few weeks ago someone left this comment on my post about AVE: "It looks to me like you're listing...
How Much Autonomy Should Your AI Agent Have?
Dev.to · Rohith 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How Much Autonomy Should Your AI Agent Have?
The conversation around Agentic AI often focuses on one goal: making agents more autonomous. More...
Build an RFP intake agent that reads vendor questions without losing the thread
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Build an RFP intake agent that reads vendor questions without losing the thread
Use a Nylas Agent Account to receive RFP submissions, extract deadlines and requirements, answer approved questions, and escalate risky replies.
Capabilities, permissions, and approval gates in AI developer teams
Dev.to · Alex Agafonov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Capabilities, permissions, and approval gates in AI developer teams
There is a shortcut in AI tooling that looks convenient at first. We connect a tool, an MCP server,...
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs: Which One Actually Wins in 2025?
Dev.to · gentlenode 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs: Which One Actually Wins in 2025?
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs: Which One Actually Wins in 2025? I've been writing backend services...
Claude Sonnet 5: What "Most Agentic" Actually Means in Practice
Dev.to · Mininglamp 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Claude Sonnet 5: What "Most Agentic" Actually Means in Practice
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30. Their framing: "the most agentic Sonnet model yet." If...
AI & Devs: Adopting To A New Reality
Dev.to · CITYJS CONFERENCE 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI & Devs: Adopting To A New Reality
Four years after ChatGPT changed how we think about software development, and 18 months after...
Don't generate your AGENTS.md with an LLM
Dev.to · PromptMaster 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Don't generate your AGENTS.md with an LLM
The counterintuitive finding Generating your AGENTS.md from a model feels efficient. The...
I let my AI agents rewrite their own prompts. The hard part was stopping them from getting worse.
Dev.to · Matthias | StudioMeyer 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I let my AI agents rewrite their own prompts. The hard part was stopping them from getting worse.
I let my AI agents rewrite their own prompts. The hard part was stopping them from getting...
Building a Polymarket Trading Bot: Learning from the Best Wallets Instead of Guessing
Dev.to · Amon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Polymarket Trading Bot: Learning from the Best Wallets Instead of Guessing
Prediction markets have become one of the most interesting places to build trading algorithms. Unlike...
China AI vs US AI APIs: Which One Should You Actually Use in 2026?
Dev.to · gentleforge 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
China AI vs US AI APIs: Which One Should You Actually Use in 2026?
China AI vs US AI APIs: Which One Should You Actually Use in 2026? I spent the last two weeks...
ReskPoints: AI Agent Logging with Sampling, Masking and Multi-Export
Dev.to · RESK 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
ReskPoints: AI Agent Logging with Sampling, Masking and Multi-Export
ReskPoints is an AI Agent Logger that tracks every action with sampling, sensitive data masking, and multi-export to Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and mor
OpenAI to DeepSeek API Migration Guide — Switch Seamlessly in 10 Minutes
Dev.to · TokenPAPA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
OpenAI to DeepSeek API Migration Guide — Switch Seamlessly in 10 Minutes
Complete guide to migrating from OpenAI to DeepSeek API. Code examples, endpoint mapping, model equivalents, cost savings analysis, and overseas acces
Unlocking Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: A New Era in AI Development
Dev.to · Naveen Malothu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Unlocking Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: A New Era in AI Development
The Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, two cutting-edge AI models developed by Anthropic AI. This move has signif
Building a Reliable Stop-Loss System for an Automated Trading Bot
Dev.to · Emil Nielsen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Reliable Stop-Loss System for an Automated Trading Bot
One of the most important parts of any automated trading bot isn't entering trades—it's managing risk...
Designing an AI agent for the factory floor (model reasons, code never decides)
Dev.to · Humphreysun98 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Designing an AI agent for the factory floor (model reasons, code never decides)
Every factory floor already has cameras. The problem is that nobody is watching them. A safety...
The Architect Mode Trap: Why Delegating AI Thinking to Save Money Will Cost You More in the Long Run
Dev.to · xu xu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Architect Mode Trap: Why Delegating AI Thinking to Save Money Will Cost You More in the Long Run
You're staring at a blank terminal. The feature is due Friday. Your cursor is blinking, and you've...
AI Agents Don't Need a Monorepo. They Need a Readable Codebase
Dev.to · Takafumi Endo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Agents Don't Need a Monorepo. They Need a Readable Codebase
monorepo vs multirepo isn't the real question. Designing for human + agent parallelism is.
11 Free No-Key APIs Your AI Agent Can Use to Read the Web
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
11 Free No-Key APIs Your AI Agent Can Use to Read the Web
An AI agent doesn't need a paid data vendor to read the web. These eleven REST APIs return real data...
The Invisible Leak: 5 Catastrophic AI Agent Failures and the 56.8% Truth No One Talks About
Dev.to · correctover 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Invisible Leak: 5 Catastrophic AI Agent Failures and the 56.8% Truth No One Talks About
The Invisible Leak: 5 Catastrophic AI Agent Failures and the 56.8% Truth No One Talks...
From 2 Hours to 3 Minutes: Automated Agent Memory Regression Testing with Playwright & Pytest
Dev.to · BAOFUFAN 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From 2 Hours to 3 Minutes: Automated Agent Memory Regression Testing with Playwright & Pytest
Last month we added a "long-term memory" module to our intelligent customer-service agent. A user...
5 AI Developer Pain Points That Are Screaming for a Solution (And How to Profit From Them)
Dev.to · ping wang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
5 AI Developer Pain Points That Are Screaming for a Solution (And How to Profit From Them)
Discover 5 AI developer pain points that are screaming for a solution, from AI agent memory rot to GPU cold starts. Learn how to profit from these opportunities
The AI API Mistake That Cost Me Thousands (And How To Avoid It)
Dev.to · purecast 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The AI API Mistake That Cost Me Thousands (And How To Avoid It)
The AI API Mistake That Cost Me Thousands (And How To Avoid It) honestly, I learned this the hard...
Our AI autopilot merged nothing for 3 days — the culprit was a review 'freshness' check
Dev.to · Takayuki Kawazoe 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Our AI autopilot merged nothing for 3 days — the culprit was a review 'freshness' check
At Codens, we run our development on AI agents around the clock: a PRD becomes tasks, agents...
Agent Prompt Caches Are a Runtime Boundary | Focused Labs
Dev.to · Austin Vance 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Agent Prompt Caches Are a Runtime Boundary | Focused Labs
Prompt caching makes context order, provider cache controls, and cache-hit telemetry part of agentic AI architecture.