Digests

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Make Something Agents Want: 3 Conditions for Software to Survive in the Agent Era

YC's philosophy has shifted from "Make something people want" to **"Make something agents want"**. In an era where agents choose, recommend, and deploy, the value axis of software has fundamentally moved. YC Lightcone,...

Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents

Anthropic's context engineering guide covers strategies for optimizing AI agent performance through deliberate token management — moving beyond simple prompt engineering to optimize the entire information ecosystem, including system instructions, tools, external data, and message history.