How I think about agentic development

Strong opinions on building production software with agents — stances I'll defend, not options to weigh. Every card is a position; open it for the argument.

Learned the hard way

Everything below comes from doing agentic development for real since the beginning of this year: what went wrong, what I struggled with, and how I learned to handle it.

Held firmly, not forever

This is my current stance, based on where we are and what we know now. I change my mind constantly as things evolve, and this page evolves with me.

AI may write the words, the opinions are mine

Text on this page may be AI-generated. Every position it argues is my own.

The foundation · everything else is built on it
What follows

The convictions, by phase

The whole loop

How the pieces fit together