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Dex Horthy
Made owning the context window an engineering discipline
Horthy's "12-Factor Agents" reframed reliable agents as mostly-deterministic software with LLM steps placed on purpose — own your prompts, own your context window, contact humans via tool calls. His RPI / spec-first workflow treats the spec as the durable contract agents code against. That is verification-and-discipline as the moat, the same instinct Tropo builds into governed, plain-file substrate.