Harrison Chase: automation's big win is reviving classic software architecture best practices
hwchase17 · x · 2026-09-26
LangChain founder Harrison Chase amplified a take on agent development: one of automation's biggest benefits is resurrecting classic software architecture best practices—state management, encapsulation, abstraction—and combining them with ML best practices: measure/evaluate, and use calibration and uncertainty.
It effectively sketches an agent engineering methodology: classic architecture for engineering reliability, ML-style evals and uncertainty handling for model behavior control.
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