Building your product
Summary
The article discusses the challenge of building agent infrastructure, emphasizing that trust and evidence are more critical than retrieval, and introduces Ninelayer's focus on providing better evidence for coding agents.
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@yoheinakajima: great article, mostly focused on coding agents but applies elsewhere impo. aligns w a lot of my prior thoughts: - agent…
A tweet highlighting key principles for building agent systems, emphasizing scaffolding, memory, and reusable tools, based on an article by Yohei Nakajima.