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I walk through how I build scalable, self-orchestrating agent workflows with A2A and MCP. We cover agent discovery, shared context, and the patterns …

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We got some rockstar-quality content on how developers are building better systems last week.

We got some introspective and out-of-the-box looks at AI we don't normally focus on last week.

There's so much talk about building AI agents, have you built one yet?

Part 5 of the Andres Moreno series dives into meta-agents: where they sit in the agent loop, when they make sense in production, and how they act as …