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AI Agents
Patterns, tooling, and lessons for delegating real work to software agents.
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We built a layout viewer for AI agents. Then an agent scaled it to 38 million shapes.
How a goal-driven loop turned PhotonForge's browser LiveViewer from a half-million-shape viewer into a 38-million-shape, 60 FPS tool for humans and agents.
Learning Auto-Routing by Building: From Brute Force to an Auto-Design Agent
How I learned auto-routing for photonic chips — a failed brute-force attempt, AI as a learning partner, interactive HTML arenas, a PhotonForge router, and an agent that iterates 27 designs in under three minutes.
Can AI Agents Autonomously Design Components on Photonic Chips?
We gave AI agents a photonic simulator, a DRC engine, and four design challenges. They autonomously designed waveguide bends, crossings, splitters, and demultiplexers — some reaching near-perfect performance.
The Agent Control Loop — Engineering for Tolerance
Why agent reliability isn't magic model behavior — it's an environment where correctness is continuously verified. A framework for deciding when and how to delegate to AI agents.