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Quinn Ueda4/8/2025

Staff ML Engineer · E-commerce

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An agent isn't a chat loop with tools bolted on.

Model, memory, tools, planner, orchestrator, eval: six components with explicit contracts between them. Skip the contracts and you get a demo that collapses in week two.

#agents #architecture #orchestration #skills #workflow

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Beatriz Eze5/13/2025

Associate ML Engineer · Education

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Hooks intercept. Skills package judgment.

Everyone name-drops hooks and skills. Almost nobody explains when to use which, and conflating them builds brittle agents that break on the second edge case.

#agents #skills #hooks #workflow #engineering

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Yoha2/11/2025

Founder · Agentic AI

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Chatting with a model isn't a skill. Programming an agent is.

Five learnable skills and two frameworks that separate the people writing their own ticket from the people sending out their hundredth résumé.

#agents #career #skills #orchestration #eval

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Yoha2/25/2025

Founder · Agentic AI

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The prompt is dead. Long live the blueprint.

"Prompting" quietly split into four disciplines at four altitudes. The people pulling 10x ahead aren't writing better prompts — they're writing specs an autonomous agent can build from while they get coffee.

#prompts #context-engineering #agents #skills #spec

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Yoha4/22/2025

Founder · Agentic AI

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Your rejections are worth more than your prompts.

Generation is solved. The bottleneck is judgment — and the specific, learnable, scalable form of judgment is saying no to confident AI output, and knowing exactly why. Most teams let every one of those noes fall on the floor.

#eval #skills #agents #career #workflow

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Keiko Okafor11/18/2025

Junior Developer (Career Transition) · Nonprofit

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Portfolio beats certificates.

Hiring managers don't want another prompt course. They want evidence you can orchestrate rejection loops: eval harnesses, critic gates, and shipped agent workflows in public.

#career #agents #skills #workflow #engineering