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Field Notes · Agentic engineering

How software work is being rebuilt
when the machines do the building.

Deep, practical thinking for engineering leaders navigating the shift from writing code to directing the systems that write it.

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Series · Next Quarter's Normal

Next Quarter’s Normal is about how agentic systems are changing the way we build software. Today, though, we mostly apply agentic capability to assist our current practices. Useful, but not the point. The deeper opportunity sits in the problems we long ago filed under unsolvable, and in ways of working we haven’t imagined yet.

  1. Act I · the problem: Entropy: Leaky Knowledge, Brittle Systems

    1. 01 The Empty Chair
    2. 02 The Archaeology Tax
    3. 03 The Clockwork Assumption

  2. Act II · the inversion: not yet released

    1. 05 unwritten
    2. 06 unwritten
    3. 07 unwritten

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The Clockwork Assumption

Writing a procedure down assumes the part of the world it describes will hold still. It won't, and the checks that validate its operation often go stale faster than anyone notices. Part 3 of Next Quarter's Normal.

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