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AI Agents
AI Agents
Patterns, tooling, and lessons for delegating real work to software agents.
Showing 3 articles tagged AI Agents.
Essay
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.
Essay
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.
Essay AI Engineering
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.