
AI Agents for Developers: Practical Patterns for Production in 2025
AI agents for developers are finally being judged by the only metric that matters—do they help us ship better software, faster, with fewer surprises? I remember a Thursday night last winter when our release candidate started failing in staging. Our tiny agent looked at the logs, grabbed a recent runbook, and suggested rolling back a questionable feature flag. It wasn’t glamorous. It was calm and specific. We still reviewed the plan, but that little helper cut thirty minutes from a sticky incident and let us ship before midnight. That’s the energy of this piece. No theatrics, just field-tested moves for building agent systems that don’t flake out under pressure. We’ll look at the architecture that keeps you sane, the retrieval...