Agent Engineering

Six elements of the job, why agents are ChatGPT's path to a billion MAU, and why work on it now.

by @swyxAdded Mar 24, 2025

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🆕 talk + essay: Agent Engineering latent.space/p/agent Why we went all in on Agents @aiDotEngineer Defining Agents (thanks to @simonw) The Six Elements of Agent Engineering Why Agents are ChatGPT's path to 1B MAU Why work on Agent Engineering Now live on @latentspacepod! Show more

7:37 PM · Mar 24, 2025

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