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Jobs every engineer should automate with agents
Some engineering tasks are too repetitive to be worth prompting every time by hand, but too fuzzy for a script.
We've been using Scouts at PostHog to do these instead – scheduled agents with long-term memory that run on a cron trigger.1
H...
38 things we've learned about building AI products
We’ve built 10 different AI products at PostHog, including PostHog AI, our install Wizard, Replay Vision, Scouts, and more. They’re used by nearly 100,000 people every month. This is what we’ve learned.
- AI can make your product worse....
We're building multiplayer AI. Here's what we've learned so far
When people imagine multiplayer AI, they usually think of products like Claude Tag or PostHog in Slack.
These are fine for simple tasks, like fixing minor bugs and querying data, but most work happens outside Slack across dozens of apps in...
What happens to engineers when AI writes all the code?
We are plausibly coming to a moment where AI will write all the code. This is a reality for many developers already. Over the last 4 months at PostHog, we moved from around 20% of our monorepo PRs being opened by agents to 70%.
This breaks...
Read this before deleting your AGENTS.md
Context engineering used to focus on adding information that base models lacked:
But then the models kept getting better. Now, the same context your agents couldn’t function without can make them perform worse.
Our AI onboarding wizard, f...
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