Compound Engineering adds "bakeoff": agents must build competing approaches before committing
danshipper · x · 2026-09-20
Users report the new ce-bakeoff capability in Every's Compound Engineering meaningfully improves results even on small tasks. It provides shared exploration and selection for ce-brainstorm and ce-plan: agents must independently develop concrete competing approaches, get an independent assessment, select a winner, and fold in useful contributions. ce-plan triggers it automatically when a consequential, hard-to-reverse technical choice remains open after research; it can also be invoked directly for architecture or product-mechanism decisions that need more than pros and cons.
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