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9 notes tagged commentary in the AI agents topic. How agents are built, tuned and run: loops, harnesses, MCP, skills and coding agents, with what broke and what we measured.
- Agentic engineering: the series map and how to read it
A series on building agentic software for engineers who know the classic lifecycle, and how its pillars, deep dives and reading paths fit together.
- Owner agents, plain functions: where the model sits in our ops estate
Give each domain one owner agent that reports back, keep the steps as plain functions, and add autonomy to a running platform one gated decision at a time.
- Onboarding without flattening: what 9T keeps hard on purpose
A tester opened 9T and understood nothing. bievh kept the guide at four tabs and left the rest hidden. Two weeks later tuanddd proposed a story opening at full power,…
- Play a quarter, wait the rest: the dead-air problem in turn-based artillery games
In a four-player artillery match you play about a quarter of the time and nothing after you die. tieubao's T/N formula and the off-turn options the lobshot thread raised.
- Twenty accounts and the rich players: the economy loop behind farm-and-fight MMOs
bievh's account of why farm-and-fight MMOs pay: 20-account farmers supply the rich players, who keep paying. Plus the Vietnam licensing wall a solo builder hits before…
- Hide the MacBook notch: the 32-point fix for the macOS 27 menu bar
macOS 27 Golden Gate added a native » button that folds menu bar icons and broke Hidden Bar, Bartender and Ice in the same release. The first fix on a notched MacBook…
- Claude Code 2.1.259 turned our Read() deny rules into a Bash tripwire
Bypass-mode sessions started stalling on 'a Read() deny rule is configured' prompts. What the harness now infers from a Bash command, why a CLAUDE.md rule couldn't stop…
- The debug loop: make the agent measure the browser before it touches the CSS
A repeatable loop for AI-driven UI debugging: name the metric, name the axis, drive a real browser over CDP, read the DOM into a table, kill theories, sweep the suspect,…
- DeepSeek harness, dissected
An architecture read of dsh, DeepSeek's new agent harness: the plugin tree, the patch-layer boot, the log-first session model, and what it means for a Claude Code shop.