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Every abstraction in agentic programming — RAG, memory, agentic history, structured output — is just a different way of passing tokens into a model, and understanding that beats learning any of them.

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Which mental models help you think better?under our view: Every abstraction leaks: someone still has to know what is underneath

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  1. Dex Horthy Founder of the agent company HumanLayer
    And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.

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    15 Jul 2026 · video · 1h 33m · spoken · machine transcript

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