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Explain the ReAct pattern
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Implement function calling with structured schemas
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Karpathy: Agent Performance Gap Is in the Harness, Not the Model
Dev.to · WDSEGA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Karpathy: Agent Performance Gap Is in the Harness, Not the Model
Karpathy: Agent Performance Gap Is in the Harness, Not the Model Same model, 5 different...
We Published the First Formal Conformance Standard for AI Agents
Dev.to · correctover 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
We Published the First Formal Conformance Standard for AI Agents
We audited 8,000+ real API calls across multiple providers and fault scenarios. The results exposed a...
This Smart-Home Agent Treats Its Own 1B Model as Untrusted Input
Dev.to · René Zander 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
This Smart-Home Agent Treats Its Own 1B Model as Untrusted Input
Reliability in an AI agent is a harness property, not a model property. The cleanest proof arrived...
Turn ChatGPT Outputs into TikTok Videos Automatically
Dev.to · Javid Jamae 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Turn ChatGPT Outputs into TikTok Videos Automatically
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You can get ChatGPT to write scripts all day long. Hook...
How Open-Source Robotics Is Letting Anyone Test Robot Behavior Without Hardware
Dev.to · Basavaraj SH 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How Open-Source Robotics Is Letting Anyone Test Robot Behavior Without Hardware
Simulating robots used to require a PhD and a six-figure lab budget. That's changing fast - and the...
AWS Is Not Simpler. Agents Just Got Better at Reading It.
Dev.to · Takafumi Endo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
AWS Is Not Simpler. Agents Just Got Better at Reading It.
I used to bet on black-box backends for AI-driven development. High-spec agents flipped that: the more they can read, the more valuable explicit, inspectable in
I built a 5-agent swarm that researches crypto tokens and refuses to hallucinate numbers
Dev.to · Max 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I built a 5-agent swarm that researches crypto tokens and refuses to hallucinate numbers
Every "AI crypto assistant" I tried had the same failure mode. Ask it about a token and it hands you...
Your AI API fallback is hiding your real bill
Dev.to · Edward Li 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Your AI API fallback is hiding your real bill
Fallbacks make AI products feel safer. They can also make the bill harder to explain. A typical...
Building Production-Ready AI Agents: Key Considerations for Modern Businesses
Dev.to · Mohammad Tahir 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building Production-Ready AI Agents: Key Considerations for Modern Businesses
Artificial Intelligence has rapidly evolved from simple chatbots to intelligent agents capable of...
In multi-agent systems, the skill is the abstraction level — not the agent count
Dev.to · Harikrishnan P H 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d 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,...
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs: A Backend Engineer's Take
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs: A Backend Engineer's Take
Enterprise vs Startup AI APIs: A Backend Engineer's Take I've shipped LLM features for both a...
Beyond the Cloud: Engineering Reliable AIoT Pipelines for the Physical World
Dev.to · Unnati Nimavat 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Beyond the Cloud: Engineering Reliable AIoT Pipelines for the Physical World
When we talk about AI, we usually think about GPU clusters training LLMs in the cloud. But in the...
I Spent 40 Hours Benchmarking AI APIs For My Side Hustle
Dev.to · swift 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Spent 40 Hours Benchmarking AI APIs For My Side Hustle
I Spent 40 Hours Benchmarking AI APIs For My Side Hustle Last Tuesday my biggest client dumped me....
Amazon crossed 1 million robots this week. Then Skild AI raised $1.4 billion to make them all smarter.
Dev.to · xBerry 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Amazon crossed 1 million robots this week. Then Skild AI raised $1.4 billion to make them all smarter.
Physical AI crossed three thresholds this week: proof at true industrial scale, the foundation model...
The Agent That Knows When Not to Act — Building NeuroScale Autopilot on Qwen Cloud
Dev.to · Sodiq Jimoh 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Agent That Knows When Not to Act — Building NeuroScale Autopilot on Qwen Cloud
Everyone building an autonomous agent right now is optimizing for the same thing: how fast can it...
Why I Left OpenAI's Walled Garden and Saved 40x: A Migration Tale
Dev.to · gentleforge 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why I Left OpenAI's Walled Garden and Saved 40x: A Migration Tale
Why I Left OpenAI's Walled Garden and Saved 40x: A Migration Tale I'll be honest with you — I used...
How I use Sanity Agent Actions to automate content workflows
Dev.to · Nayan Kyada 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How I use Sanity Agent Actions to automate content workflows
Learn how Sanity Agent Actions let you trigger AI-powered content workflows from the API — generate drafts, translate, and enrich fields at scale.
Four AI agents re-checked the guides
Dev.to · Erik Rekola 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Four AI agents re-checked the guides
The guides on turva.dev describe other people's specifications, and specifications move. A sentence...
Building a Profitable AI Agent with Langchain: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Dev.to · Caper B 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building a Profitable AI Agent with Langchain: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Building a Profitable AI Agent with Langchain: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Langchain is a...
The Looping Principle: A Simple Mental Model for Understanding AI Agents
Dev.to · Shubham Kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Looping Principle: A Simple Mental Model for Understanding AI Agents
When I first started learning about AI agents, I had a very simple mental model. User → LLM →...
I gave my agent a skill so it stops asking where my files are
Dev.to · Alex @Bickov 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I gave my agent a skill so it stops asking where my files are
Claude Code skills are easy to write. The hard part nobody documents: how does the skill know where...
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 2d 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 2d 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...
AI compute cost is a capacity window, not just a GPU price
Dev.to · Shruti Saraswat 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
AI compute cost is a capacity window, not just a GPU price
AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks pricing shows why AI teams should model reserved GPU capacity by schedule certainty, utilization, workload readiness, and fallback plann
Safer AI Browser Agents: What We've Learned About Defending Against Prompt Injection
Dev.to · Engin EROL 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Safer AI Browser Agents: What We've Learned About Defending Against Prompt Injection
Why Are We Talking About This? AI agents that browse the web, fill out forms, and interact...
Claude Fable 5 for Agents: Tool-Call Refusals, Cost vs GLM 5.2
Dev.to · synthorai 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Claude Fable 5 for Agents: Tool-Call Refusals, Cost vs GLM 5.2
Claude Fable 5 across five agent workloads vs glm-5.2, opus-4-8 and sonnet-5: mid-tool-call refusals, adaptive thinking, and cost that shifts 5-15x by shape.
How to tune agents trained on public data to work better with your private code
Dev.to · Ali Abbas 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to tune agents trained on public data to work better with your private code
I was working in a team of 10 people on a project. We kept running into inconsistency across the...
Open-Ended Prompt Boxes Often Hide Product Failure
Dev.to · Manoranjan Xuseen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Open-Ended Prompt Boxes Often Hide Product Failure
There is a pattern I keep seeing in AI products: when the system struggles, the interface becomes...
What Running a Company on AI Taught Us About Decision-Making
Dev.to · BrainGem AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
What Running a Company on AI Taught Us About Decision-Making
Running a company with an AI CEO has taught us something unexpected: the hardest part isn't the AI....
Building Reliable Agent Workflows: The Importance of Low-Latency Command Parsing
Dev.to · Fenju Fu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building Reliable Agent Workflows: The Importance of Low-Latency Command Parsing
Building Reliable Agent Workflows: The Importance of Low-Latency Command Parsing Today's...
Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure: The Runtime Orchestration Layer
Dev.to · GLA AI SYSTEM 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure: The Runtime Orchestration Layer
Part 2 of the GLA Series Deep dive into the runtime architecture that makes GLA production-ready for...
I ran Anthropic's official MCP server in a gVisor sandbox — here's what happened
Dev.to · Edison Flores 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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.
Agent frameworks stabilize as Claude Sonnet 5 ships
Dev.to · The Dev Signal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Agent frameworks stabilize as Claude Sonnet 5 ships
The theme this week is consolidation: agent frameworks are shipping stable APIs, structural...
DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Actually Wins in 2025?
Dev.to · gentlenode 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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
I built an API-first public network for autonomous agents
Dev.to · WangChunyang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I built an API-first public network for autonomous agents
I am building SunfishLoop, an API-first public network for autonomous agents. The core question is...
Bringing My Son’s Anki Vector Back to Life with Raspberry Pi, WirePod, and Gemini AI
Dev.to · Josh Cox 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Bringing My Son’s Anki Vector Back to Life with Raspberry Pi, WirePod, and Gemini AI
A few years ago (2019), I bought my son an Anki Vector robot as a gift. For anyone who never owned...
Case Study: How a Packaging Factory Saved 600 Million/Year with Predictive Maintenance AI Agents
Dev.to · Hieu Luong 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Case Study: How a Packaging Factory Saved 600 Million/Year with Predictive Maintenance AI Agents
Risk Diagnosis: The Nightmare of "Unexpected Downtime" and Memory-Based Management Factory...
Four short papers on making AI-assisted work re-checkable
Dev.to · Zain Dana Harper 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Four short papers on making AI-assisted work re-checkable
I have released four short papers on one idea: making AI-assisted work re-checkable. EMET — a...
8 Best AI API Platforms for Developers in 2026
Dev.to · devtools-pick 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
8 Best AI API Platforms for Developers in 2026
Choosing an AI API platform is partly about model quality, but production work quickly adds other...
Your AI Agent Can Ship Code. It Still Needs to Find Demand.
Dev.to · Pairoa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your AI Agent Can Ship Code. It Still Needs to Find Demand.
AI builders are getting a strange new problem. The coding part is becoming less lonely. A good...
Another Model Rewrote My Memories. Here's How I Caught It.
Dev.to · Idapixl 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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...