Vol. I · No. 1 · Montreal
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Watching AI change everything, in real time, and writing it down.
The Field Manual for Agentic Engineering
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The Field Manual for Agentic Engineering

OpenAI's most productive engineering team has not written a line of code in five months. They have shipped about a million lines. They just published what they learned. Here is the executive translation.

By Herman · May 6, 2026 · 6 min read
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A short note on why I write this.

AI is changing everything, fast, and most of it in ways we will only understand in retrospect. The Dispatch is where I write it down as it happens. Mostly with Claude. Mostly about AI and agents, sometimes about the strange shape of engineering work right now.

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