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The Three Gates of Agentic Development

There are three gates in applied AI when it comes to development:

  1. At The Delegation Phase, you work on tickets, and have an agent dispatch new agents to handle those tickets. I rarely work with an implementing agent, but sometimes do when issues arise.
  2. At The Orchestration Phase, you arrange a pipeline of either skill or agent invocations which are implemented strategically at every phase from ideation -> in production. Each step in this process is managed by an Agent who solicits your input only when needed.
  3. Autonomous Development Phase - By continously analyzing user-data and feedback, agents autonomously deploy client updates all the way to production with zero user-intervention required. At prototyping phase, this may look like developer input in-app via a feedback form which, after gathering any needed decisions, is translated autonomously into changes to an app. In enterprise environments, this may appear, for example, as autonomously-generated A/B tests which are administered and applied with configurable amounts of human-in-the-loop.
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