The Growing Engineer
Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof🧑‍💻 I build agentic systems at Cresta. Every Tuesday: how to work like the engineers furthest ahead with agents, and what changed that affects your work. Curated from about 70 sources against a written standard. Five minutes.
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Pre-commit hooks beat AGENTS.md instructions
Hi folks,
I will be going to the US for 3 weeks and have a ~17-hour flight. If anyone has some good podcast or book recommendations, feel free to hmu.
Happy building,
Lorenz
Grow with me!
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The pull request is now the slowest step
Hi folks
I was trying this retro skill (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/retro/SKILL.md) and let it run across a couple of sessions and approximately 4,300 tool calls. It was quite interesting to see what t...
Nobody reads every agent diff line by line anymore
Hi folks,
I have updated the ingestion of this newsletter a bit. It will now focus more on insights from 100x engineers, people who are far ahead of the curve, who use AI agents in a unique way. It will help you learn from them and also be...
Jev goes head to head with LLM judges
Hi folks,
Over the past week, I’ve learned a lot about designing the mechanics of an AI agent.
The goal of this agent is to create a fairly complex domain object called a Policy.
At Cresta, a Policy is a rule that runs in real time durin...
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...
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