Navigating the Shift: From Deterministic to Probabilistic in Engineering
The landscape of engineering is evolving from rigid structures to adaptive, Agent Engineering. This shift necessitates a rethinking of how we model interactions and trust data-driven entities.
Key Insights:
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Text is the New State: Embrace natural language as context; avoid binary constraints.
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Hand over Control: Allow agents to navigate user intents dynamically rather than force-harding flows.
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Errors Are Inputs: Instead of crashing, learn from errors to enhance agent performance.
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From Unit Tests to Evals: Validate behaviors over binaries; assess agency reliability and quality.
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Agents Evolve, APIs Don’t: Design for clarity; agents require explicit definitions and adaptation.
The transition involves trading certainty for flexibility, and trusting agents to manage this ambiguity can amplify system resilience.
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