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# Douwe Maan

Pydantic AI Lead Engineer at Pydantic.

Pydantic AI Lead Engineer.

## Links

- [github](https://github.com/douwem)
- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/douwem/)
- [website](https://douwe.me/)

## Articles by Douwe Maan

- [You've built this agent before](https://pydantic.dev/articles/harness-week) — 2026-07-20 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/harness-week.md))
- [Pydantic AI v2: capable agentic loops](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-v2) — 2026-06-23 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-v2.md))
- [Fighting Fire With Fire: How We're Scaling Open Source Code Review at Pydantic With AI](https://pydantic.dev/articles/scaling-open-source-with-ai) — 2026-03-03 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/scaling-open-source-with-ai.md))