I'm Willem van den Ende, partner at QWAN. This is where I write about agentic engineering, wishcraft, naive evals, and whatever prototype I'm building this week.
It is a bit over three months ago that my linkedin post about cancelling my Claude Max subscription went viral. Time for an update. The first six weeks were uneventful, then I started missing some things from before, and yesterday I closed the loop.
At first I was bemused by Retort, Adrian Cockroft's whole stack coding agent evaluation tool. It is growing on me, and might be useful as a starting point for custom evals.
Every application has some kind of workflow. Understanding larger workflows, making them cohesive and understandable to users and developers is non-trivial. I re-discovered Ward Cunningham's Swim the Test approach, this is the Further Reading section of future posts.
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Initial release of Firehose
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