Levels of Agentic Engineering

kept by eddie mar 15

The article proposes an 8-level ladder of AI-assisted coding autonomy, from manual prompting to fully autonomous multi-agent software factories.

Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
The article argues that data should be parsed into types that make illegal states unrepresentable at system boundaries, rather than scattered through validation checks.
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0%, 50%, or 200% – Dan Shapiro's Blog
Companies face three choices after AI doubles worker effectiveness: do nothing and halve staff, cut workforce to save costs, or use the gains to double output and grow.
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StrongDM Software Factory
StrongDM describes building a Software Factory where agents write code from specs and scenarios, validated by a Digital Twin Universe, without any human-written or reviewed code.
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The Shape of the Thing - by Ethan Mollick
AI has entered a new agentic era where models can autonomously complete hours of human work, and exponential capability improvements are now driving radical organizational experiments like StrongDM's "Software Factory" that ships code without human touching it.
also on StrongDM, Claude Code, #software-engineering