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Five Mistakes People Make with Agentic Factories

Hosted by Eleanor Berger and Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Fri, Sep 25, 2026

8:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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Build Your Agentic Software Factory
Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger
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What you'll learn

Shift into factory mode with confidence

Learn the mindset and principles for deciding what to delegate, when to step back and where your judgement matters.

Avoid five common mistakes in the transition

Recognise habits and setup decisions that hold people back, understand why they fail and learn what to do differently.

Create a repeatable process for getting work done

Build a routine: define the outcome, provide context, delegate, check the result and improve the process next time.

Why this topic matters

Working with a factory means giving direction, creating a useful environment and judging results. Eleanor draws on her personal factories, work with larger teams and conversations with practitioners to unpack five common mistakes in mindset, setup and oversight. Learn how to shift into factory mode with confidence and create a repeatable process for delegating and checking work.

You'll learn from

Eleanor Berger

AI and Software Engineering Expert (Google, Microsoft, Canonical, Startups...)

Eleanor Berger is an AI and software engineering expert.

A former principal engineering leader at Microsoft and Google, Eleanor also spent years in startups and consulting.

As Member of Technical Staff at Jimini Health, she is helping build clinical evidence-based AI for behavioural health. Through Agentic Ventures, she helps power users, engineers, and teams 10x their capabilities and redefine what's possible with agentic AI.

Eleanor's approach: technically rigorous, practically grounded, focused on results, and free of hype.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Advises and teaches teams building AI systems; work has reached 6M+ learners.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson advises and teaches teams building AI-powered systems, including engineers from Netflix, Meta, and Amazon. He hosts Vanishing Gradients, where he works with practitioners at the frontier of agent engineering, context engineering, evaluation, and AI-assisted software development.

Career highlights

His work in data science and AI education has reached more than 6 million learners.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger are co-instructors of Build Your Agentic Software Factory.

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