Topic
Engineering Practice
4 posts
0110 min read
Context engineering for coding agents
What to put in an agent's context window and what to keep out: project instructions, retrieved code, the task spec, and history you barely control.
AI Coding AgentsContext EngineeringSpecsEngineering Practice
028 min read
Planning mode vs. just prompting
When making an agent plan before it writes code pays for itself, when it is pure ceremony, and what separates a useful plan from a restated prompt.
AI Coding AgentsPlanningSpecsEngineering Practice
0310 min read
Code review when an AI wrote the code
Reviewing agent-generated code is a different job from reviewing human code. Most teams run the human process against it and get burned.
Code ReviewAI Coding AgentsEngineering Practice
049 min read
Scoping work for AI agents
How to size a task so a coding agent can finish it coherently: decision count over line count, vertical slices over layers, and dependency order.
AI Coding AgentsTask DecompositionSpecsEngineering Practice