Agentic Engineering

Agentic Engineering

🎙️ Episode 4: Forward Deployed Engineer, the job everyone's hiring for and no one can quite explain
Google's Tanya Dixit breaks down what the role involves, once you get past the title
 • Tanya D'cruz and Tanya
1:00:31
Inside the harness (Part 3): Change the tools
How the same ReAct loop becomes a coding agent and what happens when its context and capabilities no longer fit
 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li
Webinar: Your RAG pipeline doesn’t know when it’s wrong
Imran Ahmad on turning one-shot retrieval into a system that can evaluate its evidence, try again and admit when it doesn’t know
 • Tanya D'cruz
1:41:34
Inside the harness (Part 2): Give it a plan
How planning and nudges keep a ReAct loop from losing the plot
 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

August 2026

Inside the harness (Part 1): Start with the loop
How a weather lookup becomes deep research without changing the ReAct machinery underneath
 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li
Webinar: Building AI agent harnesses for finance
Nicole Königstein on why reliable financial agents are an engineering problem, not simply a model problem.
 • Tanya D'cruz
49:57
🎙️ Episode 3: The agent autonomy trap
Podcast with Ben Auffarth on bounded autonomy, calibrated confidence, meaningful human oversight and why businesses should fund the dataset before the…
 • Tanya D'cruz and Ben Auffarth
45:03
#8: You can't trust what you don't evaluate
NVIDIA's Balamurugan Balakreshnan maps the evaluation practices that separate reliable AI agents from convincing demos
 • Tanya D'cruz and Balamurugan Balakreshnan
🎙️ Episode 2: An agent loop needs a way out
Podcast with Rick Hightower on verification, stopping conditions, and the harnesses that keep autonomous agents honest
 • Tanya D'cruz and Rick Hightower
47:57

July 2026

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