Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

nibzard.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 151 posts

Re: The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

#11

Post by Kerrick »

MrOrelliOReilly wrote: post #4

This is a great consolidation of various techniques and patterns for agentic coding. It’s valuable just to standardize our vocabulary in this new world of AI led or assisted programming. I’ve seen a lot of developers all converging toward similar patterns. Having clear terms and definitions for various strategies can help a lot in articulating the best way to solve a given problem. Not so different from approaching a…

I recognized the need for this recently and started by documenting one [1]... then I dropped the ball because I, too, spent my winter holiday engrossed in agentic development. (Instead of documenting patterns.) I'm glad somebody kept writing!

[1]: https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/use-ai-to-stand-in-for-a-...

Re: The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

#12

Post by laborcontract »

If you're remotely interested in this type of stuff then scan papers arxiv[0] and you'll start to see patterns emerge. This article is awful from a readability standpoint and from an "does this author give me the impression they know what they're talking about" impression.

But scrap that, it's better just thinking about agent patterns from scratch. It's a green field and, unless you consider yourself profoundly uncreative, the process of thinking through agent coordination is going to yield much greater benefit than eating ideas about patterns through a tube.

0: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=agent+architecture&searchtyp...

Re: The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

#14

Post by 63stack »

wiseowise wrote: post #7

So it begins, Design Patterns and Agile/Scrum snake oil of modern times.

No dude, you just don't get it, if you shout at the ai that YOU HAVE SUPERPOWERS GO READ YOUR SUPERPOWERS AT ..., then give it skills to write new skills, and then sprinkle anti grader reward hacking grader design.md with a bit of proactive agent state externalization (UPDATED), and then emotionally abuse it in the prompt, it's going to replace programmers and cure cancer yesterday. This is progress.

Re: The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

#15

Post by ares623 »

straydusk wrote: post #10
Bukhmanizer wrote: post #5

I’d rather just read the prompt that this article was generated from.

I finally found the perfect way to describe what I feel when I read stuff like this.

Tempted to copy the content and launder it through another LLM and post a comment linking to my own version

Re: The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

#17

Post by aj_g »

straydusk wrote: post #10
Bukhmanizer wrote: post #5

I’d rather just read the prompt that this article was generated from.

I finally found the perfect way to describe what I feel when I read stuff like this.

I remember some proto-memes about translation of some text between English and Chinese 100 times and the results being hilarious...modern parallel would be to ask a LLM to read the article, and generate the prompt that constructed the article. Then generate an article based on that prompt. Repeat x100.

Re: The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

#19

Post by wiseowise »

63stack wrote: post #14
wiseowise wrote: post #7

So it begins, Design Patterns and Agile/Scrum snake oil of modern times.

No dude, you just don't get it, if you shout at the ai that YOU HAVE SUPERPOWERS GO READ YOUR SUPERPOWERS AT ..., then give it skills to write new skills, and then sprinkle anti grader reward hacking grader design.md with a bit of proactive agent state externalization (UPDATED), and then emotionally abuse it in the prompt, it's going to replace programmers and cure cancer yesterday. This is progress.

Curing cancer is H2 2030, once my options have vested. :cool-eyeglasses-emoji:

Re: The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

#20

Post by alkonaut »

All of this might as well be greek to me. I use ChatGPT and copy paste code snippets. Which was bleeding edge a year or two ago, and now it feels like banging rocks together when reading these types of articles. I never had any luck integrating agents, MCP, using tools etc.

Like if I'm not ready to jump on some AI-spiced up special IDE, am I then going to just be left banging rocks together? It feels like some of these AI agent companies just decided "Ok we can't adopt this into the old IDE's so we'll build a new special IDE"?_Or did I just use the wrong tools (I use Rider and VS, and I have only tried Copilot so far, but feel the "agent mode" of Copilot in those IDE's is basically useless).

Post reply on HN