The Growing Engineer
Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof\ud83e\uddd1\ud83d\udcbb I build agentic systems at Cresta. Sharing what changed in agentic engineering each week, and what it means for your work. Curated from 47 sources against a written standard. Five minutes, every Sunday.
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Longer autonomous runs cost more to review
Hi, folks.
There are two things I want to share this week.
First, I’ve started using voice again instead of typing. I used it a lot around Claude 3.5 and 3.7, but it didn’t really solve my problem back then. The models worked too inaccura...
Claude Code can now prune the skills eating context
This week I asked an agent to write a design doc for a bigger feature.
Its first proposal introduced six SQL tables. The feature only needed two.
The agent had quietly assumed we would be dealing with a huge amount of data. From that assu...
Ramp, Uber and AWS each built their own agent stack
One of the biggest problems I encounter in my day-to-day work in the post-AI-agentic engineering world is staying freaking focused.
I constantly feel the pressure to do multiple things at once. For example, I might start a refactoring sess...
MCP roadmap lands next to the /wayfinder skill
Last week I said I’d keep working on this pipeline. This week I pointed it at
YouTube and X. Until then it only read RSS and some of the highest-scoring
items in this edition already came from those new sources.
Roughly what it does:...
Local 30B models and a 750 tok/sec API tier
Hey, I haven’t been very active on Substack for quite some time. The reason is that I enjoyed building with AI agents more than creating long-form content.
I also realized that this space — agentic engineering — is moving incredibly fast....
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