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Generated Glossary

• When we use LLMs in a specialized domain, such as the operations of any reasonably-large organization…
• Such words and specialized meanings will be foreign to an LLM because they aren't in its training set…
• One technique to aid this is to use an LLM to generate a glossary of the terminology in that domain…

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Tests as data

• Automated testing in the age of AI coding assistants is problematic: when AI agents write both production and test code…
• I make three claims: (1) when AI writes the code, developers become its customers; (2) therefore customer tests…
• All of this optimizes for human-readable tests that establish a contract between humans and AI.

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Long-horizon agents and durable execution

• Long-horizon agents can automate complex tasks that take days or weeks to complete and involve multiple exchanges with people…
• Many things can go wrong during this time, including process crashes, network failures, and unanticipated real-world behavior.
• Durable execution is an emerging pattern that helps agents recover from these failures and move towards their goal.