Notable verbatim quotes

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On the core mindset shift

1. "We're not building the thing we're building the thing that builds the thing." — Section 2. Tag: thesis/mindset.

2. "It's not about fix the code and fix the system." — Section 3. Tag: mindset/fix-the-system. (Almost certainly intended as "it's not about fix the code BUT fix the system" — quote as-is.)

3. "One of the predominant mistakes is that you still go in and jump in and correct and take over." — Section 3. Tag: anti-pattern.

4. "Every time you do something. Think about not repeating this again." — Section 3. Tag: repeatability/heuristic.

On agents as team members

5. "They're not only helping the humans. They're helping the agents as well. Because they're team members." — Section 4. Tag: team-lead/mental-model.

6. "My agents are team members too how did I find gold KPI and we are measuring the performance how I made them play well with my team?" — Section 4. Tag: team-lead/KPIs.

On metrics & practices

7. "One of the metrics that I really like is how many turns does an agent need to do. To do the right thing?" — Section 4. Tag: metric/turns-per-task.

8. "Some things similar to the retro how did we work? Is how did our agents work?" — Section 4. Tag: practice/agent-retro.

9. "You used to be the coding rock star. You kind of have to translate it almost into you're the amazing context provider … the great like agent whisperer." — Section 4. Tag: skill-shift/context-provider.

On platform & shared infrastructure

10. "Within Tessl we have now five or six harnesses being built. Which is great for learning but probably only a few should survive." — Section 3. Tag: harness/standardisation.

11. "Everybody builds their own context … all sustainable right so what you want to do is you want to standardize like a library within your team within your code base." — Section 3. Tag: context-library.

12. "Hey you should write tests that's a great idea sure I'll do it after my project when I have time it's the same excuse me write eval." — Section 5. Tag: evals/procrastination.

13. "I built the skill that's great I want to share that with somebody else look at it like yeah I'll like it for 99% let me kind of change that one bit and then becomes a fork." — Section 5. Tag: extensibility/forking.

On organisation & VP-level

14. "Ownership drives improvement and otherwise it just get followed between the parts." — Section 6. Tag: VP/ownership.

15. "You need to make it visible you need to take the pain visible and that was the same with security." — Section 6. Tag: ROI/justification.

16. "We want to avoid the quick wins of war and actually make that enablement team much like a platform team it requires an investment." — Section 6. Tag: investment/long-term.

On the meta-model

17. "There is no playbook." — Section 7. Tag: humility/state-of-the-art.

18. "If you have one piece of the barrel that is very low. The water will pour through there." — Section 7. Tag: barrel-model/balanced-maturity.

19. "Continuous integration. Continuous delivery. … For me that is the step of continuous learning." — Section 7. Tag: continuous-learning/era-framing.

On good-for-agents = good-for-people

20. "Everything that's good for you that we've been advocating for years on good engineering practices. Is actually good for agents. And what's good for agents. Seems to be good for people." — Section 2. Tag: thesis/symmetry.