How We Solved Agent Building — Andrew Qu, Vercel

תקציר מקורי באנגליתWhen Andrew Qu handed Vercel's internal data science agent to its first trusted users, the verdict came back that it was awful. It had been clearing thirty percent of his evals and he thought the team was cooking. Qu is Chief of Software at Vercel, and he began a year earlier by asking marketing, sales, finance, and legal what they hated most about their jobs. The best answer came from the data team, lean and growing slower than the company around it. Whenever anyone had a question about a customer or a product, a data scientist dropped everything to write the query and report back. Qu walks the rewrites that followed: one mega prompt with a Snowflake schema pasted in and the SQL run by hand, a chain of narrowly scoped agents for planning, execution, and reporting, then a single agent mana