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 # Agentic Algorithm Engineering
 
 This repository contains the program definition for **Agentic Algorithm Engineering (AAE)**, a methodology that turns autonomous agents into performance engineers following the Algorithm Engineering cycle: design, analysis, implementation, and experimental evaluation, driven by falsifiable hypotheses.
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