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AI Agents

Patterns, tooling, and lessons for delegating real work to software agents.

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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.

Prash Kharel
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.

Tyler Hughes
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.

Frederik Schubert & Yannick Augenstein