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As an employees, why I am capable of my current job?

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As an employees, why I am capable of my current job?

  • I am a good people, that could communicate, think and learn
  • I am a skilled software developer, know computer science, know programming and systems
  • I am an experienced engineer that know best practices
  • I know how my company’s internal development environment setups and works
  • I know how my domain works

Now I need build an agent on top of Cursor/ClaudeCode to do my job, what should I not focus on?

  1. They in charge of training the base agent to be human-like, knowledgable, can think (reason) and learn (memory+RL)
  2. They tailor the CC/Cursor/Codex to be skilled in software engineering, understanding systems, languages
  3. They feed the agent with experience and best practices

What I should focus on?

  • teach them the company development environment, how system build and communicate (SDE Camp)
  • teach them the company software structure and architect (SDE Camp)
  • teach them the company domain software details (first 3-6months warm up)
  • train them do simple tasks (know param control, adding tests etc.)
  • train them design complex tasks (consider existing architect, general internal design principles…)

Next, layoff me.

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