When an autonomous agent struggles on long terminal tasks, the standard engineering response is to add scaffolding. You wrap the model in state machines, inject environment probes, add reflection loops, and supply intermediate test harnesses until it stumbles across a solution.
That scaffolding wor...
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title: "I forked a live AI agent three ways, and every copy came up with its web server already running"
published: true
published_at: 2026-10-05 14:46 +0300
description: "An agent built an app inside a DigitalOcean Managed Agents microVM. I checkpointed it, forked it three ways, screenshotted e...
## This is NOT a Challenge Submission Post 🥰
I was checking out [Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge Submissions](https://dev.to/t/hf26challenge/latest). I do this from time to time on DEV Challenges, even when I myself don't have time to submit my own projects.
This time was no different. I didn't h...
An AI agent does something it shouldn't. It leaks data, or wipes the wrong database, or makes a call nobody sanctioned. So you do the obvious thing: you go to the logs to find out what happened.
The logs are clean.
Of course they are. They were written by the same process that did the thing. The a...
# I Built a Multi-Agent AI Team to Run My Father's Business — Here's the Architecture
*This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-weekend-2026-10-01)*
## What I built
I built an AI team that runs my father's business....
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title: "Before the Alarm Screams at 3 AM: Predicting Liam's Nocturnal Hypoglycemia with Prior Labs TabPFN"
published: true
description: "How Prior Labs TabPFN tabular foundation model predicts nocturnal hypoglycemic crashes from CGM logs at 10 PM with zero cloud data leaks."
tags: "hf26challenge...
*This is a submission for the [Sanity Challenge, Path One: Ship an Agent That Queries Real Content](https://dev.to/challenges/sanity-2026-09-16)*
## What I Built
A few weeks ago, I was checking my DEV.to dashboard and noticed something weird in the **Traffic Sources** panel. Views were coming from...

Artificial intelligence is usually associated with prediction.
Give a model enough data, identify patterns, and generate an estimate of what might happen next.
But prediction is only on...
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title: "Nudging with Questions: Why Telling Your AI What to Fix Triggers an Apology Death Spiral (And How to Advance Juniors)"
description: What I learned mentoring juniors for four decades seems to apply to today's agentic coding: why barking code fixes triggers sycophantic panic, and how Socra...
<em>Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for your business-critical systems. [Star us](https://github.com/HexmosTech/LiveReview/) to help devs discover the project, give it a try, and share your feedback to help improve the product.</em>
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