looks to be a good resource with lots of links

thanks for the share!

I sometimes feel like the cognitive cost of agentic coding is so much higher than a skilled human. There is so much more bootstrap and handling process around making sure agents don't go off the rails (they will), or that they will adhere to their goals (they won't). And in my experience fixing issues downstream takes more effort than solving the issue at the root.

The pipe dream of agents handling Github Issue -> PullRequest -> Resolve Issue becomes a nightmare of fixing downstream regressions or other chaos unleashed by agents given too much privilege. I think people optimistic on agents are either naive or hype merchants grifting/shilling.

I can understand the grinning panic of the hype merchants because we've collectively shovelled so much capital into AI with very little to show for it so far. Not to say that AI is useless, far from it, but there's far more over-optimism than realistic assessment of the actual accuracy and capabilities.

This is a great consolidation of various techniques and patterns for agentic coding. It’s valuable just to standardize our vocabulary in this new world of AI led or assisted programming. I’ve seen a lot of developers all converging toward similar patterns. Having clear terms and definitions for various strategies can help a lot in articulating the best way to solve a given problem. Not so different from approaching a problem and saying “hey, I think we’d benefit from TDD here.”

I’d rather just read the prompt that this article was generated from.

So it begins, Design Patterns and Agile/Scrum snake oil of modern times.

If you're remotely interested in this type of stuff then scan papers arxiv[0] and you'll start to see patterns emerge. This article is awful from a readability standpoint and from an "does this author give me the impression they know what they're talking about" impression.

But scrap that, it's better just thinking about agent patterns from scratch. It's a green field and, unless you consider yourself profoundly uncreative, the process of thinking through agent coordination is going to yield much greater benefit than eating ideas about patterns through a tube.

0: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=agent+architecture&searchtyp...

AI written article about AI usage, building things with AI that others will use to build their own AI with. The future is now indeed.