Rejected 250 times in 2 years, this engineer landed a $500K offer after demoing 20 running agents
msharmas · x · 2026-10-21
- Engineer Lauren Tan shares in a 1-hour workshop how 250 rejections over two years turned into a $500K offer once she demonstrated a system running 20 agents.
- The core method: a hierarchical agent team (Grok Bot → Chief of Staff → Managers → Workers) where a chat window gives you one bot, but an agent team gives you a system that delegates and verifies its own results.
- Paired with the "Harness Engineering" article: when agents fail, people usually swap prompts, models, or context windows — yet the agent still forgets decisions and misuses tools. The fix belongs at the harness engineering layer, not the prompt.
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