Hugo Bowne's Hierarchy of Needs for Building Agents That Keep Working Unattended
hugobowne · x · 2026-10-08
Hugo Bowne and Rainer Stropek propose an "Agentic Software Factory Hierarchy of Needs" for building agent systems that keep working while you're away:
- Agent harness: tools to do the work, run it, and investigate failures.
- Personalisation: your project context, rules, references, and skills.
- Automation: work starts and continues without a fresh instruction each time.
- Continual learning: completed and failed runs inform improvements to future work.
Specification and verification run through every layer: agree on what you want and how success is checked, then inspect what comes back. Start with one agent and one automation, then decide what to add next—and which decisions should keep coming back to you.
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