Agentic Strategies

How the work actually gets built, not just what shipped

Long-form writeups on the actual workflow behind agentic development — scoping, review discipline, verification — for anyone doing this kind of work themselves.

Agentic Strategies

September 2026

Writing for the Reader: What Changed When Agents Started Writing My Tickets

Agent-drafted tickets and PR descriptions got long. A shape and a limit for each kind of text, the one habit behind most of the length, and why the fix for long titles was not in the title.

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Agentic Strategies

September 2026

Definition of Done: Why a Checklist Decides When AI-Assisted Work Is Finished

A fixed set of gates instead of an agent's own judgment, the operating model behind it, and the codebase habits that make agent work easier or harder.

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Agentic Strategies

August 2026

Context, Decisions, and Guardrails: Why Agents (and New Hires) Shouldn't Re-Derive Your Codebase From Scratch

One canonical guide, read consistently by three different AI tools, and a strict split between what's being asked for, what's been decided and why, and how a specific piece of work is scoped.

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Agentic Strategies

August 2026

Instructions, Style, and Memory: How I Keep Several AI-Assisted Projects Consistent

Persistent per-project instructions, one shared style guide, and a memory system that survives between sessions — the scaffolding that stops several AI-assisted projects from drifting apart.

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Agentic Strategies

August 2026

Implementer, Reviewer, Tester: A Workflow for Shipping Features Fast with Claude Code

A field-tested workflow for AI-assisted feature development — scoping discipline, separating implementer/reviewer/tester roles, and why verification speed mattered more than typing speed.

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