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Five constraints on the road from delegating to orchestrating AI agents
Long chats, dead agents, skipped tests. Lessons from the road from delegating to orchestrating AI coding agents.
Writing on AI, engineering leadership & the craft
Hello, I'm Andrew. An engineering leader and builder.
Two decades building software and the teams that build software — currently in digital healthcare, working on what AI changes about the craft. This is where I publish what I learn. Field notes on agentic coding, high-performing teams, and what "done" means when the agents write most of the code. Occasionally in Swedish, when the story demands it.
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Andrew Crookston
Engineering leader, writer
Engineering leader, writer
I've spent the better part of two decades building software and the teams that build software — currently leading engineering at a Swedish healthtech preparing for IPO, where the fun part is shipping AI into healthcare without breaking the things that make it trustworthy.
This is where I think out loud. Field notes on agentic coding, post-mortems on interesting failures, and the occasional Swedish-language piece when the story demands it. Slow writing on fast-moving things.
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