Brownfield Agentic Engineering - by Addy Osmani - Elevate

kept by eddie sep 15

Addy Osmani advises that safe agentic engineering in legacy code requires mapping zones, writing characterization tests, and building durable research artifacts before letting agents change code.

AddyOsmani.com - Agent Skills
AI coding agents skip senior-engineer practices by default, so Addy Osmani created Agent Skills to encode workflows like specs, tests, and reviews as non-optional agent steps.
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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding - by Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani argues that while AI agents now write 80% of code for early adopters, this shifts problems to "comprehension debt," where developers understand less of their own codebases.
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