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9 posts tagged “Agentic”.
Agentic · 2026-05-01
Agentic coding: a working definition for 2026
Half the industry has adopted the term and almost nobody agrees on what it means. A definition that lasts, the spectrum from chat assistance to autonomous agent, the four runtime properties that separate real agentic coding from the marketing version, and where the current tools sit on the line.
Agentic · 2026-05-01
Designing agentic workflows that work for days
A workflow is not a prompt. It's a loop with a trigger, a context, an action, and a verification step. The anatomy of a workflow that works, three concrete worked examples, an opinionated take on orchestration, and the failure modes that show up the moment workflows leave a happy path.
Security · 2026-05-01
AI agent security in 2026: the real threats
Threat-modeling AI coding agents is not the same as web-app security. The agent has a shell, holds your credentials, and reasons about prompts that may be hostile. A working threat model covering prompt injection, ambient credentials, tool misuse, and exfiltration, plus a runtime checklist that maps the threats to mitigations engineers can actually implement.
Agentic · 2026-05-01
AI pair programmer: how the term aged from 2022 to 2026
'AI pair programmer' was always a strained metaphor, since pair programming is a humans-only practice. The term carried real meaning in the Copilot era, less in the Cursor era, and almost none now that agents run for hours alone. A short essay on what 'pair' should mean today.
Comparisons · 2026-05-01
Cursor alternatives in 2026: when to pick what
The 'Cursor alternative' search has become three different questions hiding under one phrase: editor alternatives, agent alternatives, and runtime alternatives. A category-first map of the space, an honest decision tree, and the cases where Cursor is still the right answer.
Agentic · 2026-05-01
Building multi-agent systems: what works in 2026
Three architectural patterns for multi-agent systems (pipeline, supervisor, peer) and where each one falls apart in production. A practical builder's view of orchestration, handoff, and the runtime properties you need under any of them.
Architecture · 2026-05-01
Persistent vs ephemeral sandboxes for AI agents
Two architectures dominate the agent-runtime space: ephemeral sandboxes that spin up per session and die at the end, and persistent workstations that exist for the agent's lifetime. They solve different problems, fail in different ways, and are increasingly converging on a hybrid pattern. The honest decision tree.
Sovereignty · 2026-05-01
Sovereign AI: what it actually means for engineers in 2026
The phrase has been hijacked by trade-policy threads about which country trains the next foundation model. For engineers, sovereign AI is the runtime question: who owns the credentials, the context, and the compute the agent runs inside. A working definition, the failure modes that show up when sovereignty is missing, and what the runtime answer looks like.
Agentic · 2026-05-01
Vibe coding tools: a 2026 field guide
Vibe coding has split into two distinct flavors with very different tools: laptop-IDE-with-AI on one side, persistent-agent-on-runtime on the other. The field guide covers what each flavor is good for, the hidden costs nobody talks about, and the moment to graduate from vibe coding to engineering work.