addyosmani

Agentic Code Quality

Software Factories, Light and Dark

A software factory is harnessing loops at scale - the system that builds your software instead of you. You can run the loop with humans in it (light factory) or you can ignore the humans (dark factory) and let those agents scope, build and ship code, with

Engineers need to own the outer loop, the accountability for these systems. A written version of my AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 closing keynote: quality, verdict, and answerability, the three hidden costs of delegation, and building software factories y

Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you're junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose. A builder's look at the weakening entry level, the two debts we now owe, and concrete ways to build judgment when

AI gets good at anything with an answer key. Your career is everything that doesn't have one.

The action in agentic engineering has moved from prompting to operating. Autonomy isn't one ladder, it's two axes (agency and orchestration) and six levels you move between per task. The real question is what level a task deserves, and what verification m

I co-wrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ideas in it I think actually matter, plus six figures you're welcome to reuse.

Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code to deciding whether to trust it, which makes review the most leveraged skill in software right no

Loop Engineering.