Agentic Engineering

Agentic engineering lets AI draft, refactor, and explain code for you, with the strongest results on boilerplate, repetitive implementation, and well-scoped changes that you can still review and maintain.

• The most successful use case of AI so far.
• Let AI write code for you, often better than you could.
• Works best for boilerplate things.

• When you can't read code and don't understand what's happening.
• When you aren't prepared to test and maintain all the extra code.
• When there is an existing SaaS you could use instead.

• Build trust slowly, review all code to understand risks
• Compare models, best performing is always changing
• Right now, Codex has the best model, Cursor the best ID, and Claude the best vibes.

• Watch token usage, pricing models are changing
• Use an AGENTS.md file to give context on your repos
• Related: Vibe Coding