AddyOsmani.com - Agentic Engineering

kept by eddie feb 05

The article argues for the term 'agentic engineering' to describe disciplined, human-oversight-driven AI-assisted development, contrasting it with the reckless 'vibe coding' approach.

How Complex Systems Fail
Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous, rely on layered defenses, and fail only when multiple small flaws combine; safety emerges from continual human adaptation rather than component reliability.
also on O'Reilly, #software-engineering
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
Provides a concise Python Polars cheat sheet derived from the authors' O'Reilly book, covering core DataFrame operations, syntax, and common workflow patterns.
also on O'Reilly, #developer-tools
Software as clay on the wheel
Autonomous AI coding agents become reliable when tasks have clear, testable success criteria, shifting human oversight from implementation to specification and validation.
also on Simon Willison, #ai-agents, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Cheap code means formal verification is reasonable now — Antfly Blog
The Antfly team shows how coding agents using TLA+ can formally model distributed systems to cheaply find and verify race conditions and other bugs.
also on Simon Willison, #ai-agents, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Rapid adoption of AI coding agents in production codebases leads to compounding errors, complexity, and loss of maintainability; the author advocates for slowing down and maintaining human oversight.
also on Andrej Karpathy, #ai-agents, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools