Your AI Agents Need Finite State Machines (FSMs)

July 28, 2026 · Dev.to

Waking a dead service worker with Web Push, from a Cloudflare Worker
Last time I wrote about keeping a WebSocket alive inside a Manifest V3 extension, and the whole trick was staying awake:
x402 Signs the Money, Not the URL. I Checked 18 Fields.
An x402 payer signature does not cover the URL. It commits to the amount, the recipient, the token contract and the chai
Your AI Agent Can Call Every API — Except Your Bank. Here's Why.
Every API you'd want an agent to call has a clean path: an API key, an OAuth dance, maybe a scoped token. Your LLM can r
‘Things aren’t as stretchy and flexible’: Shane Gould on the reality of sex in your 60s
The Olympic swimming champion on faith, desire and what she envies – and doesn’t – about today’s younger generation.
Reds look to bounce back vs. Guardians in second half of Tuesday doubleheader
The Reds dropped the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader against Cleveland.