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Addy Osmani is a Senior Staff Engineering Manager working on Google Chrome. He leads up teams focused on making the web fast and low-friction to build on for developers. Addy has authored a number of books and has spoken at conferences around the world.

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Practical Loop Engineering

Goals, loops, and the discipline of not delegating your judgment

The way that I typically work is I have anywhere between five and ten agents working at the same time in parallel. There are going to be some tasks that I’m very happy to delegate fully to agents, as long as I have a very clear idea of the stopping conditions and the constraints around them. And then there are going to be some tasks w

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	Learning Javascript Design Patterns 3.83 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Developing Backbone.js Applications: Building Better JavaScript Applications 3.70 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stoic Mind: A Visual Exploration Of Stoic Philosophy by Addy Osmani (Goodreads Author), Go Limitlesss 3.67 avg rating — 95 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leading Effective Engineering Teams: Lessons for Individual Contributors and Managers from 10 Years at Google 3.51 avg rating — 97 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Vibe Coding: From Coder to AI-Era Developer 3.17 avg rating — 105 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Engineering - The Soft Parts 3.90 avg rating — 69 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

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