OpenIQ - Building a product engineering muscle in the age of agents
OpenIQ is a new product engineering initiative that focuses on leveraging agents to streamline operations. It aims to enhance the design and decision-making aspects of product development while allowing agents to handle coding and monitoring tasks. The project emphasizes the importance of human judgment in design, contrasting it with the automated capabilities of agents in other areas.
- ▪OpenIQ is designed as an agentic desk assistant for various small operations.
- ▪The system consists of an agent harness, a set of plugins, and a database for persistent memory.
- ▪The project began with a focus on different domains, including dental practices and law offices, to identify common operational tasks.
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Home » PostsOpenIQBuilding a product engineering muscle in the age of agents.May 15, 2026 · 6 min · Abhiram ETable of ContentsStuck on a long flight with ClawWhat is OpenIQA pattern formingAnyway, here’s where it ended upWhen coding is largely solved, what comes next?It’s been beaten to death by now, but coding has changed enough in the last six months that it’s almost moot to call it coding at all. Even for devs, the job was never only code. Sometimes you’re designing, mostly you’re maintaining and managing the complexity of what’s already there. The work usually split three ways, always unevenly: design, code, monitor. And now two of those are getting eaten.Code, obviously.
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