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Douwe Osinga

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goose started as a simple loop: let a model write a command, run it and feed the result back. As approvals, compaction, hooks, skills and steering piled on, that loop became spaghetti. We replaced it with a re-entrant state machine where the conversation is the state and each behavior is an Operation.

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Leaving Google

After seven years at Google, I'm leaving. Cue the inevitable 'what's wrong with you?' Before I get to the gripes, though, there are a few popular narratives I want to push back on: that Google has gone evil, that the good engineers are all defecting to Facebook, that 20% time was always a myth. Part one of three. The…