Scott Spence

Agentic engineering is the practice of putting coding agents inside an engineering system that makes context, scope, validation, evidence and human review...

In November 2025 I wrote the honest version of working with Claude Code. At the time, most of my process involved spotting when Claude was drifting, calling out the bullshit, checking that it understood the task, and restarting the session when the...

I have a habit of turning repeated arguments with coding agents into software. If I tell an agent to stay inside five files often enough, eventually I stop asking nicely and build something that blocks the sixth. If I keep asking for validation...

The problem I care about with LLM coding is drift: one plausible shortcut gets copied, then future sessions start treating it as how the app works. I've...

Right, so, this started with me looking at , seeing a 98% context reduction claim, and immediately thinking: bull shite. Not because the idea is bad. The idea is good. The bit that made me twitch was the shape of the claim. If you compare a huge...

I have written a few posts now about bits of : adding LSP, adding telemetry, and hardening redaction with evals. What I have not actually done is the obvious one: explain what is, why I made it, and why I have suddenly spent a slightly...

Third post in a little run about , my coding agent harness built on top of pi-coding-agent. There's a pile of stuff in I have not written about, but these three felt worth the time: adding LSP, wiring in local SQLite telemetry, and this one, which...

keeps growing in the direction of whatever annoyed me most that week. It is the coding agent harness I've been building on top of the excellent pi-coding-agent from badlogic, and I keep bolting things onto it as I need them for real work. Last time...

This whole thing started with a chat with Kev, (Svelte Society co-founder), after a few beers at the CityJS after-party. I mentioned my-pi to him and his first question to me was "oh! does it have LSP built in?" I was...

So, here's the situation. I use Claude Code with cloud CLIs daily, AWS, Hetzner, that sort of thing. Claude Code is genuinely the ultimate cheat code for bash though! Need to query an API, parse some JSON, chain a few commands together? Claude does...