3 posts tagged with "Software Engineering"

I want to start automating things with agents and reuse them across projects. An agent that investigates incidents, another that examines repositories, another that prepares documentation. And I want them to collaborate when the work calls for it.

The supply of frameworks is growing so quickly that choosing one seems to have become the mandatory first step. My question starts earlier: how do you design an agent that others can find, assign work to and hold accountable for its results?

That leads me to services, contracts and distributed systems. The framework running each agent will be a decision within that architecture.

I have spent enough time juggling terminals, branches and pull requests to know that running several coding agents is not just a bigger version of running one. It is a coordination problem. Agent Orchestrator (AO) is a desktop app built to solve that problem, and I am using it to coordinate the work on this site.

In recent years, I've seen two equally damaging extremes in many development teams: over-engineering and the eternal PoC culture. This post is about why both extremes are bad engineering practices and how to find a reasonable middle ground.