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The AI Engineer

Owain Lewis

The practical AI newsletter for engineers who build. Every week: tutorials, frameworks, and real lessons to help you ship agents, automate your work, and become the engineer everyone asks for help.

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Latest Issues

I tested nested subagents in Claude Code

Hey 👋,

Claude Code recently shipped support for nested subagents.

If you’re anything like me, the first thing you wonder is what you’d actually use it for. So this week I want to break down how I think about them, and the one pattern I’...

20 days ago

How I'm building autonomous agent loops

ey 👋,

You’ve probably heard a lot of hype around the term loop engineering. Very few people show you how to actually apply it. That’s what I want to do here.

The idea started with a tweet from Peter Steinberger.

Boris (Claude Code crea...

24 days ago
4

The most underrated new Codex feature.

Hey 👋,

OpenAI’s coding agent, Codex, recently shipped one of its most powerful features, and almost nobody is talking about it. Codex can now manage its own threads.

It sounds trivial, but this is the most interesting AI coding feature I...

a month ago
3

I let AI agents run my entire GitHub workflow

Hey friend 👋,

For the past year I’ve used AI agents to run my entire GitHub workflow. If you write code with AI, getting this part right makes a real difference to the quality of your work.

The best engineers I’ve worked with have one th...

a month ago
7

The 7 skills I actually use every day with AI coding agents

If you spend any time in AI engineering circles online, you’ll quickly get the impression that being productive with coding agents requires hundreds of skills, dozens of MCP servers, an insane workflow, and a wall of plugins blinking at you...

2 months ago
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