Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing
Aug 12, 2026 AI Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing The adoption of AI Tooling ironically encourages better practices. Now you have to actually do everything you've been putting off. by Matthew Brunelle As always, the views here are expressly my own. In this post I'm not advocating for adopting agentic engineering.
- ▪Aug 12, 2026 AI Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing The adoption of AI Tooling ironically encourages better practices.
- ▪Now you have to actually do everything you've been putting off. by Matthew Brunelle As always, the views here are expressly my own.
- ▪In this post I'm not advocating for adopting agentic engineering.
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| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:13:45 +0000 |
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Aug 12, 2026 AI Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing The adoption of AI Tooling ironically encourages better practices. Now you have to actually do everything you've been putting off. by Matthew Brunelle As always, the views here are expressly my own. In this post I'm not advocating for adopting agentic engineering. I'm assuming you chose to try it or someone decided for you. Matt Levine often writes about how crypto is rediscovering modern finance from first principles.[1] In a similar vein, when people get excited about approaches to improve agentic engineering, I can't help but think they are just talking about the practices we should already have in place as software engineers. The kind of work we typically cut because of time pressure.
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