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Designing an agent for real work

Medium4 min read

Questions it teaches

Decide what a CI triage agent does nextEasy10 min Decide how an onboarding agent answers from docsEasy10 min Rank a tech debt register by carrying costEasy12 min Decide what a pipeline triage agent may doEasy10 min Triage cloud cost spikes before anyone is pagedEasy10 min Find the week an account starts drifting awayEasy10 min Flag idle software seats before they renewEasy10 min Audit each claim in an escalation briefEasy10 min

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Agent design Specs and prompts Guardrails Agent evaluation AI in the system

Builds on: Specs and prompts

Prompting & writing specs3 min Describing your own practice6 min

Leads to: Guardrails

Guardrails an agent cannot argue with4 min

Leads to: Agent evaluation

Evaluating an agent5 min

Leads to: AI in the system

Keeping a model working after launch8 min ML system design3 min

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