Agent engineering feels like Elon running the factory: hunting bottlenecks and nudging agents at 3am
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-30
robleclerc likens agent engineering to how Elon Musk describes his own role: (1) set the top-level vision; (2) constantly hunt bottlenecks, demanding multiple rounds of root-cause analysis and challenged assumptions; (3) 'sleeping on the factory floor' = waking at night to nudge agents along; (4) juggling dozens of sessions at once — echoing RDJ's description of Musk as 'the most focused and simultaneously the most scattered person,' processing 40 things simultaneously.
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