A Working Agent Is Not a Working Factory
How to test whether a layered agentic workflow preserves context, responsibility, verification, and recovery for a solo developer.
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Agentic Engineering
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An Agentic Factory Is an Architecture, Not a Tool Stack
Why an agentic factory is an architecture of responsibility, evidence, and boundaries—not a stack of tools or a more powerful coding agent.
The Problem Is Not Prompting. It Is Context Decay.
Why AI-assisted development breaks down when useful reasoning disappears between sessions, and why durable project context matters more than clever prompts.
Planning Is Where AI Work Becomes Reviewable
Why planning is less about agent autonomy and more about making AI-assisted work inspectable before it becomes expensive.
Agent Tools Need Product Design Too
Why agent tools are control surfaces for safe, reviewable loops—not just callable functions.