We hosted an intimate event on Agentic Engineering in SF with speakers at the forefront of AI yesterday.
Three big lessons I took away:
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@steipete: I now force contributors to OpenClaw to use a skill that pushes their prompt history of the code change to find signal in noise, to avoid often bad PRs that are 10,000 lines from a prompt “fix this”
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@trq212: I used Claude to be a video editor to create a launch video with visuals, while having it interactively teach me about color grading as it did the edits. I didn't even know it could do that! Getting the most out of a model is finding your unknown unknowns.
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@georgepickett: I spend a lot more human energy on crafting a plan upfront and getting all my clairfications answered upfront before leaving Codex to spin for days, armed with Ousterhout’s coding principles as a skill, on a well-crafted /goal
We had about ~30 odd people including some recognizable names like Theo (
@theo), Gergely (
@GergelyOrosz), Andy (
@andykonwinski), Jerry (
@MillionInt), Dave Morin (
@davemorin), Patrick Hsu (
@pdhsu), Eric (
@ericho), Bucky (
@buckymoore), Joff (
@mejoff) with a surprise visit from cricketer Robin Uthappa (
@robbieuthappa)
We were graciously hosted by
@timshi_ai at his house and cohosted with
@GregKamradt.
Videos will be up soon! If you're interesting in coming to these, give me a shout in comments or in DM.
(also incredible to see how huge the ClawFather is in the flesh)