Agentic Code Review 🔗
Agents made writing code almost free. Understanding it costs what it always did, which is why review is now the bottleneck. The 2026 data is strikingl [...]
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Loop Engineering 🔗
You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks [...]
The Intent Debt 🔗
Technical debt lives in your code. Cognitive debt lives in your head. Intent debt lives in the artifacts you may have never wrote: the goals, constrai [...]
The Orchestration Tax 🔗
Starting more agents is easy now. However, more agents running doesn't mean more of you available - your cognitive bandwidth doesn't parallelize. All [...]
Don't Outsource the Learning 🔗
Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently tra [...]
Cognitive Surrender 🔗
Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and [...]
Agent Skills 🔗
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agen [...]
Long-running Agents 🔗
A long-running agent can keep making progress over hours, days, or weeks. It can do this across many context windows and sandboxes, recover from failu [...]
Agent Harness Engineering 🔗
A coding agent is the model plus everything you build around it: prompts, tools, context policies, hooks, sandboxes, feedback loops. Harness engineeri [...]
Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO) 🔗
AI coding agents consume documentation fundamentally differently from humans. If you're still optimizing only for human readers, you're leaving a grow [...]