don’t waste your back pressure
I am fortunate to be surrounded by folks who listen and the link below post will go down as a seminal reading for people interested in AI context engineering.
A simple convo between mates - well Moss translated it into words and i’ve been waiting for it to come out so I didn’t front run him.
Don’t waste your back pressure ·
Back pressure for agents
You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to
setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it with automated feedback on quality and correctness, have been able
to push them to work on longer horizon tasks.
This back pressure helps the agent identify mistakes as it progresses and models are now good enough that this feedback
can keep them aligned to a task for much longer. As an engineer, this means you can increase your leverage by delegating
progressively more complex tasks to agents, while increasing trust that when completed they are at a satisfactory standard.
[Moss]
read this and internalise this
Enjoy. This is what engineering now looks like in the post loom/gastown era or even when doing ralph loops.
If you aren’t capturing your back-pressure then you are failing as a software engineer.
