#tutorial
Every post tagged "tutorial".
92 posts · showing 21–30
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Agent Vocabulary: What the Terms Actually Mean
People discussing the same word are frequently discussing different things. Four of the distinctions are load-bearing — and when an agent conversation isn't converging, it's usually one of them.
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The First Agent to Deploy in a Company That Has None
The first one shapes how much latitude every later one gets. Which means the right choice usually isn't the most valuable use case — it's the one most likely to succeed where people can see it.
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Working With an Agent as a Pair, Not a Vending Machine
Describe, wait, review, repeat — the mode most people start in and the one that hits a ceiling fastest. The difference is fifteen seconds spent on what you know that isn't written down.
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How to Run an Agent Pilot That Produces a Decision
Most pilots end without a decision because they were designed to produce a demo. Write the threshold before you build — and sort the failures by cause, because "no-go" and "fix one thing" look identical in the average.
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Hiring Engineers When Take-Home Tests Are Meaningless
The signals didn't get noisier — they stopped measuring what they proxied for. The replacements test the right thing and are more subjective, which is a cost that lands on specific people.
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Estimating Work When Implementation Speed Is Unpredictable
Estimation always worked badly and consistently, which is what made velocity useful. The consistency is what broke — the mean fell and the variance rose, which is the worst combination for planning.
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Becoming the Person Who Decides What Gets Built
The most common career advice in this shift, with the instructions attached. The conversation isn't gated by title — it's under-resourced, and one specific move changes outcomes immediately.
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Staying Employable When Code Generation Is Nearly Free
"Develop judgment, move up the stack" is true and unactionable. Six specific moves instead — and the hedge and the bet turn out to be the same actions.
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Lock-In Risk in Agent Tooling, and How to Keep Optionality
The API call is trivially portable — the coupling forms in four other places, and the worst one isn't technical at all. One question tells you how exposed you are.
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How to Benchmark Models on Your Own Task
Public benchmarks tell you about a model, not about your system. Frozen tool responses, assertions written from the requirement, and four numbers instead of one — plus the shortcut when a full suite isn't happening.