<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Edwin Lovett · Writing</title><description>AI engineer building agentic systems for marketing teams. Papers and field notes on what actually ships.</description><link>https://edwinlovett.com/</link><item><title>Context budgets: what to give an agent, and what to withhold</title><link>https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-007/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-007/</guid><description>More context is not better context. A framework for budgeting what an agent sees per step — brand rules, prior campaigns, audience data — and the failure modes that appear when budgets are ignored.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Context</category></item><item><title>The agent loop: a reference architecture for marketing automation</title><link>https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-006/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-006/</guid><description>Marketing teams meet LLMs through a chat window and rarely leave it. This paper describes the agent loop — a bounded cycle of plan, act, evaluate and revise over typed artifacts — and how to implement it with Claude Code so a team can trust, inspect and change it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Claude Code</category></item><item><title>A reproducible environment for agent projects</title><link>https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-005/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-005/</guid><description>Agent projects fail in boring ways: a drifted dependency, a missing CLI, a secret in the wrong place. A devcontainer-based template that makes every project run identically on day one.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workflow</category></item><item><title>Marketing teams should learn to orchestrate agents</title><link>https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-004/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-004/</guid><description>An argument that the durable marketing skill of the next few years is not prompting, but designing and supervising systems of agents — and what that means for hiring.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Marketing</category></item><item><title>From prompt to pipeline: automating campaign briefs</title><link>https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-003/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-003/</guid><description>Turning a messy kickoff thread into a structured brief schema, a calendar and first drafts — and why the schema mattered more than the model.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Automation</category></item><item><title>Notes on Claude Code subagents</title><link>https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-002/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-002/</guid><description>Field notes on splitting work across subagents: when it helps, when it multiplies confusion, and the conventions that kept mine predictable.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Claude Code</category></item><item><title>Why I stopped writing mega-prompts</title><link>https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-001/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-001/</guid><description>The short essay that started this repo: one prompt that does everything is a system you cannot debug.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category></item></channel></rss>