"Micro Managers Anonymous": a free seven-step programme for your agentic software factory
intellectronica · x · 2026-10-11
Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) released a free seven-step programme + comic helping developers stop micromanaging autonomous agents and turn "my agent can write code" into a software factory that runs while you're away.
Core ideas:
- Specify what you want and how you'll check it (specify + verify)
- Personalise your harness with project context and skills
- Automate recurring work into cron-style jobs
- Turn corrections into continual learning
- Decide what the agent may test, what evidence it brings back, and where humans still make the call
Available as a free downloadable PDF on Maven; each page tackles one factory-building problem with something concrete to try.
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