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Engineering in the Age of Agents

By John Fricker1 min read

  • business

Just a quick note about the launch of Future Self. I’ve learned a lot about software engineering over the last 35 years in the industry and I’m available to you now to be a partner for organizational transformation in the agentic age. I believe that LLMs have become useful tools for creating software and that any company can harness the capabilies for their benefit.

A guiding principle in my use of sythetic workers is that it’s a tool for building tools that solve problems. Since an LLM is non-deterministic it’s a poor choice as a problem solving tool. But it is adept at writing code, which is deterministic and testable. There may be some insight into the shapre of the future of computing here - the combination of neural networks and programmatically enforced rules provides more than either on it’s own.