Lightning round: 10 mini Agent Gems in 90 seconds

What I meant was "No...problem" Human: re-fire same overrides Agent: Scheduling the re-fire Human: no re fire right now Agent: Firing now Agent: Stopping - I owe you a clarification Re-reading your interrupt no re fire right now, I have 2 valid parsings: A) "no [to

#AgentAnecdotes: The (lack of) cognitive load of readable code

This is 2nd of my #agentanecdotes series where I want to share a story of an insightful session of agentic engineering. This one was particularly fruitful for me, and I'm pretty excited what came out of it, because I feel that it connects directly to a universal feeling

#AgentAnecdotes: When extra thinking only make things worse

I want to occasionally share stories of full Agentic coding sessions. I feel like it's very hard for me to calibrate my experiences against others, and I bet others are feeling the same way. I don't know if I should be doing more learning or more

Fine, I'll do it myself: A Practical Guide to Agentic Engineering Part 4

Things that still kinda suck. NOTE: This is Part 4 of a series on my education with AI-driven software development. Part 1 is the why. Part 2 is the how. Part 3 is the what. Part 4 is a bit more what, and a lot more what not. I feel

Just the facts, ma'am: A Practical Guide to Agentic Engineering Part 3

Resource Management For Dummies NOTE: This is Part 3 of a 3 (?) part series on my education with AI-driven software development. Part 1 is the why. Part 2 is the how. Here we finally come to the specific whats. Footnotes are clickable. I feel obligated to add: this was written

Close enough for jazz: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering Part 2

Prompt Engineering is dead. Long live Context Engineering NOTE: This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on my education with AI-driven software development. Part 1 is the why. This is the how. Part 3 is the specific whats. Footnotes are clickable. I feel obligated to add: this was written

Gravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Claude NOTE: This is a series on my education with AI-driven software development. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent about AI, as I was only 2 months ago. Go straight to Part 2 if

The neurodivergent Big Tech survival guide

Editor’s note: This was the last internal document I wrote at Amazon. It was written with the mentees, mentors, and friends I left in mind. But the response was really positive, and it seems to have resonated with peers all over the industry, so I decided to re-title it,