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March 15 2026

What is agentic engineering?

Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) > I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the

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March 14 2026

Quoting Jannis Leidel

GitHub’s slopocalypse (https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/godot_maintainers_struggle_with_draining/) – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open

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March 14 2026

My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit (https://www.pragmaticsummit.com/) in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui