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Note on GitHub - Humanlayer/12-Factor-Agents: What Are the Principles We Can Use to Build LLM-powered Software That Is Actually Good Enough to Put in the Hands of Production Customers? via GitHub

Even if LLMs continue to get exponentially more powerful, there will be core engineering techniques that make LLM-powered software more reliable, more scalable, and easier to maintain.

How We Got Here: A Brief History of SoftwareFactor 1: Natural Language to Tool CallsFactor 2: Own your promptsFactor 3: Own your context windowFactor 4: Tools are just structured outputsFactor 5: Unify execution state and business stateFactor 6: Launch/Pause/Resume with simple APIsFactor 7: Contact humans with tool callsFactor 8: Own your control flowFactor 9: Compact Errors into Context WindowFactor 10: Small, Focused AgentsFactor 11: Trigger from anywhere, meet users where they areFactor 12: Make your agent a stateless reducer

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