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You may be spending more tokens on context gathering than writing code
Five context-gathering patterns that burn tokens in agentic eng orgs, and the fix for each: scoped instruction files, context firewalls, zero-token polling.
Golden standard for agent readiness: treat agents as new hires
We build harnesses for engineering orgs, and this is the metric we've seen is reliable at predicting increases in speed and quality developing with agents, proven through 8 months of experimentation including +2000 engineers across +100 companies. Measure the onboarding of an agent as if it were a new hire, looking at time from access to a deployed first feature, with no help.