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Agent Design Patterns
rlancemartin.github.ioanalysispositiveJan 12, 2026
Effective agent design patterns center on context management as a finite resource, with successful agents using computer access, hierarchical action spaces, and deliberately limited tool sets to optimize long-running autonomous capabilities.
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Learning the Bitter Lesson
rlancemartin.github.ioanalysisneutralAug 1, 2025
The Bitter Lesson—that general computation-leveraging methods outperform hand-crafted domain structures—applies to modern AI engineering, and over-engineering rigid structures limits models from taking advantage of rapidly improving capabilities like tool calling and MCP ecosystems.
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