Slides: Recursive Coding Agents - Raymond Weitekamp, OpenProse
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Recursive Coding Agents - Raymond Weitekamp, OpenProse
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Recursive Coding Agents
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MOTIVATION
Weallwantoutcomes.
Agents that work on ourbehalf-reliable co-workers-while we're out on a hike.
The bottleneckisnot intelligence. It'sreliability.lt'strust.
One day-my agents buildme a full SaaS app froma single prompt.
The next day - they empty the entire contents of my Solana wallet.

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THESIS
Today'sagents are
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The intelligence is there.
The missing layer ishow we specify.manage,reuse,and verily the work
stopBabysitingAgentsstart
Authoring Outcomes
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Stop Babysitting Agents,Start Authoring Outcomes
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