Give your agent a finish line: a playbook for shipping agent-built components to production
martinwoodward · x · 2026-09-17
A practical playbook for agentic engineering: give your agent a finish line, not just a language — e.g. "port this component, preserve behavior, don't weaken tests, remove the old implementation, and show me the evidence." Set ownership and build limits. Pick a small, well-tested component and take it to production: translate first, redesign later; keep PRs bounded, ship incrementally, remove scaffolding, and turn each recurring failure into a test or standing instruction for the next slice. The thesis: combine the best of DevOps with agentic building.
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