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Design patterns for the Async Era (opens the original)
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Previously: Part I - Welcome to the Async Era (This article can be read standalone, but consider starting with Part I to establish why Async software matters more than ever and learn some software product history.)In Part I, I argued that a wave of asynchronous products—products that run while our attention is elsewhere—would hit us like tsunami. Here’s another way to think about it. Today, post-industrial revolution, a typical American harnesses energy equivalent to the muscle power of about 10
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Much is being made of the intelligence, non-determinism, and cost of agents. But time is equally fundamental. Time can be more expensive than tokens, the future can be more unpredictable than an LLM, and there’s little more precious than human focus and attention.Here’s an illustration. You come into work one morning. You check for and find 10 pending Slack messages from your coworkers, of which you handle three before realizing you need to check on your agents that ran overnight. One of them, w
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