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Artificial Intelligence

The Agentic Loop and the ReAct Pattern

The ReAct pattern (Reason + Act) organizes an agent as a repeating three-step loop: reason about what to do, take an action with a tool, and observe the result. Introduced by Yao and colleagues in 2022, it interleaves reasoning and acting so the model can plan, consult external sources, and fix its own mistakes as it goes.

Software Development

Next.js App Router: Lessons from Migrating Real Projects

App Router went stable in Next.js 13.4 (May 2023), bringing Server Components, layered caching, and Server Actions, but it demands rethinking the application's mental model. Migrating from Pages Router pays off for new projects and read-only routes; for large applications, the realistic path is incremental, route by route, over several months.