Series
Attention Is All We Have
Building two tools with agents writing all the code, told step by step from the pains that moved them: each practice moves a judgement to the computational side, until we only look at what computation cannot carry yet.
2 parts
An opinion piece: with agents, the bottleneck moved from writing to review, reviewing harder doesn't hold, and the harness we put around our agents should be judged on the control it gives back for less attention than review costs. Told from the extreme case, a developer who could not review at all.
4 min read
Guides and Sensors: The Grid That Tells You Where Your Attention Goes
Birgitta Böckeler's grid of guides and sensors, computational or inferential, used as a compass for deciding where a developer working with agents spends their attention, with examples from phax.
9 min read