Dex Horthy
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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
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26 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Every abstraction in agentic programming — RAG, memory, agentic history, structured output — is just a different way of passing tokens into a model, and understanding that beats learning any of them. (opens korrents.com)
“And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and…”
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Harness engineering is raising the floor: optimising the environment a coding agent runs in so that the results of every single turn are as good as possible. (opens korrents.com)
“Well, harness engineering just is like how do I raise the floor so that every single turn of this thing, the results are as good as possible.”
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Context engineering has stayed relevant for a year because it is grounded in how transformer attention works, and it will matter to anyone building on AI until post-transformer models arrive. (opens korrents.com)
“I think context engineering has been so long lived because it's it's grounded in the fundamentals of how transformer attention works and until we have post transformer models or linear attention or whatever it is which…”
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Every abstraction in agentic programming — RAG, memory, agentic history, structured output — is just a different way of passing tokens into a model, and understanding that beats learning any of them. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Refactoring (opens rcmnd.app)
“Nowadays, we talk a lot about refactoring by Martin Fowler classic. I think it's because we spent a lot of time uh improving the design of existing code and trying to figure out how to get models to build code that is…”
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Clean Code (opens rcmnd.app)
“Refactoring clean code, the pragmatic programmer, like all that stuff is I think is more relevant now than it has ever been.”
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The Pragmatic Programmer (opens rcmnd.app)
“Refactoring clean code, the pragmatic programmer, like all that stuff is I think is more relevant now than it has ever been.”
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Refactoring (opens rcmnd.app)