Arun Agrahri
Every Agentic Engineering Hack I Know

AI 14 min read

Every Agentic Engineering Hack I Know

10 Patterns From Running 5 AI-Native Companies on Agents

I run five AI-native companies on agents with zero hired employees. These are the ten agentic-engineering hacks that actually hold up in production. Each one I run myself, and each is backed by a builder from the AI Engineer stage who landed on the same pattern independently.

  • Engineer the Context, Not the Prompt
  • Give the Agent a Computer
  • Delete Skills Until It Gets Better

Guide Map

  1. 1 Engineer the Context, Not the Prompt
  2. 2 Give the Agent a Computer
  3. 3 Delete Skills Until It Gets Better
  4. 4 Wire Tools With Skills and MCP
  5. 5 Give It Decision Traces, Not Documents
  6. 6 Make Evals the Unit of Progress
  7. 7 Run Subagents, Not One God-Agent
  8. 8 Ship Dumb Loops That Self-Correct

Also includes Table of Contents · Frequently Asked Questions

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hired employees behind these

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AI-native companies run on them

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cron jobs run the loop

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automated tests gate it