Andrew Crookston

@acr

Engineering Manager. 20yrs in tech. Write about engineering and entrepreneurship. Past: @spotify @instacart @lifesum 👨‍🔬 Home DJ 🎧 Swedish 🇸🇪 Ex-SF 🌉

Stockholm, Sweden andrewcrookston.com Joined January 2008

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Andrew Crookston @acr Aug 18

@AnthropicAI please provide alternatives to magic-link login asap. Waiting three minutes for a login email is not fun, i go do something else, link expires. Start over. It happens ALL the time across multiple email providers and accounts. It cant be my side.

Andrew Crookston @acr May 4

Automating real work with AI agents means building loops. The agent does something, verifies it, advances. Repeat.

The interesting question is what the loop needs to include.

Most AI coding harnesses today are runners.

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andrewcrookston.com Close the loop: verification and heartbeat for AI coding agents Agents must verify their own work — but the shape of that loop depends on what you're building. Solo work versus team-scale, runners versus workflows.

Andrew Crookston @acr May 4, 2024

So true!

Historic Vids Verified account @historyinmemes May 4, 2024

"While spacewalking | realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity." - NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

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Andrew Crookston @acr Mar 16, 2024

Agility is both ability to move fast but also the ability change direction and manoeuvre with haste. In order to do that information is needed, and that information needs to be acted on = feedback loops. @allankellynet allankelly.net/archives/8516/…

Andrew Crookston @acr Feb 3, 2024

Agreed. In that situation. Not easy. But also a sign for leadership, bring me something to push, to be positive about!

Sergio Pereira Verified account @SergioRocks Feb 1, 2024

CTOs and Engineering Managers are in a tough spot right now.

Just a couple years ago, you'd hire 5-10 people per quarter. Convince your best engineers to stay, despite competing offers. And negotiate salary budget increases with your CEO.

Now it's a different market:
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