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Agentic engineering
Design of flows, context and software factories with supervisable agents.
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Agentic engineering articles
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Dark factories: what an experiment reveals about agents and architecture
Automating code writing and testing does not, on its own, automate architectural judgment. A case reported by HumanLayer helps show where human review is worth keeping.
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A 4-gate workflow: reduce uncertainty before coding with agents
Separating problem, research, architecture and slices turns a broad request into reviewable decisions before an extensive diff is generated.
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Context for agents: keeping focus through deliberate compaction
A large context window does not guarantee that an agent uses all the information equally well. Selection and summarization must preserve evidence and useful state.
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12 Factor Agents: patterns for agents that reach production
HumanLayer’s 12 factors propose agents built from explicit software, structured tools, controlled state and human pauses when needed.
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