Third view in ticket debate: ambitious agentic systems build and evaluate for outcomes only

mattpocockuk · x · 2026-11-15

Hyrum Popocolo (lopopolo) weighs into the AI SDLC workflow debate: building via tickets means caring about mechanism, while building via big objectives means caring only about outcomes — and "successful, high ambition agentic systems only build for and evaluate for outcomes." Matt Pocock replies that tickets are merely an implementation detail on the way to the destination.

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