1. Agentic Verification If you give an AI agent a way to independently verify its work, that can heavily improve the quality of output. Agents write code “much better on average at scale ”. Th 10/14 19:31 ♡
2. The Code Nobody Reads Two years ago I wrote an essay about AI-assisted coding, and one of my tips was to review every line of generated code. I’d give that advice very differently today. What I 09/28 22:31 ♡
3. Brownfield Agentic Engineering Agentic engineering in an old codebase is about making hidden constraints visible and cheap changes trustworthy. Let’s talk what to do in brownfield codebases. During my care 09/14 22:32 ♡
4. Agentic Skill Decay Mastery still comes from doing the reps. Before agents, I got my reps as part of writing code: try different approaches out, debug what went wrong, review other’s code, read 08/31 22:30 ♡
5. Audit your Agent files TL;DR: Your coding agent’s configuration has a half-life. Models improve, harnesses add capabilities, codebases change, and the instructions we wrote for an older version sta 08/27 22:31 ♡
6. Human judgment doesn't leave the software factory. It relocates. A software factory is a repeatable loop around software work. If you’re building a software factory, code good enough to ship still needs human taste and ownership. We’ 08/21 22:31 ♡
7. Practical Loop Engineering The way that I typically work is I have anywhere between five and ten agents working at the same time in parallel. There are going to be some tasks that I’m very happy to del 08/14 22:30 ♡
8. Agentic Code Quality For much of human history, we’ve evaluated code quality via code review: someone reads what you wrote and makes sure it’s clean, thoughtful, fast, understandable, and t 08/08 22:31 ♡
9. Software Factories, Light and Dark A software factory is harnessing loops at scale. You can run the loop with humans in it (light factory): trading judgment and concentration against speed and breakage. Or you can i 07/22 11:44 ♡
10. Own the Outer Loop In the past year, the conversation around agentic engineering has moved to harnesses and loops , fleets and software factories . My 2c is engineers need to own the outer loop - the 07/09 22:31 ♡
