Series
engineering-with-agents
5-part series
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Tiered Planning as Engineering Discipline
Iterative development applied to the planning function itself. The checkpoints between tiers are the entire mechanism.
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Context Pollution
Output quality degrades because the room is full of debris, not because the room is full. The fix is structural, not a bigger window.
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Composing the Context
Most failures attributed to bad model output are composition failures: the wrong material, in the wrong order, with no rule for which source wins.
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Orchestration Patterns for Multi-Agent Work
Once more than one agent is in a pipeline, the load-bearing engineering act is the discipline at the boundaries between them.
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Feedback Loops That Compound
Capture is cheap and aggressive. Promotion to rules is expensive and conservative. The discipline that separates compounding feedback from rule-set pollution is the gate between them.