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Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing
(blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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Which is also why claiming that agentic engineering (using long known best practices) is faster than programming without AI (and without specs, docs, written architecture, design reviews, issue tracking, APIs, and (God beware) sometimes even without version control is misleading.
Either one needs to compare humans and clankers without these tools, or both sides of the comparison need to have it.
Otherwise, it is a good question what is the true goal of this hype.... making development in general faster does not seem to be it.
If it was true, the heavy adopters would be skyrocketing in value.
Yet none have.