The Orchestration Tax is You 🔗
Starting more agents is easy now. However, more agents running doesn't mean more of you available - your cognitive bandwidth doesn't parallelize. All [...]
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Don't Outsource the Learning 🔗
Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently tra [...]
Cognitive Surrender 🔗
Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and [...]
Agent Skills 🔗
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agen [...]
Long-running Agents 🔗
A long-running agent can keep making progress over hours, days, or weeks. It can do this across many context windows and sandboxes, recover from failu [...]
Agent Harness Engineering 🔗
A coding agent is the model plus everything you build around it: prompts, tools, context policies, hooks, sandboxes, feedback loops. Harness engineeri [...]
Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO) 🔗
AI coding agents consume documentation fundamentally differently from humans. If you're still optimizing only for human readers, you're leaving a grow [...]
Your parallel Agent limit 🔗
Running multiple agents in parallel is not just a question of throughput. It is a new kind of cognitive labor that requires managing multiple mental m [...]
The Code Agent Orchestra - what makes multi-agent coding work 🔗
The shift from conductor to orchestrator: how to coordinate teams of AI coding agents in real-world software workflows. From subagents to Agent Teams [...]