Field Note
Agentic development is a discipline
Trustworthy delegation begins when intent, context, authority, guardrails, and evidence become properties of the system rather than assumptions in a prompt.
Topic
Assurance
Confidence, control, and proof that systems do what they promise.
Field Note
Who blames the robot? Attribution is not control
A trace can show what an agent changed and who approved it. It cannot prove that anyone exercised judgment. When nobody reads every line, control depends on evidence, authority, and the power to stop.
Field Note
Code is cheap. verification is the new scarcity
As agents drive down the cost of a first draft, the bottleneck moves to deciding what should exist and producing enough evidence to trust the change.
Field Note
Loop Engineering Needs a Platform
Loop engineering pays off when a platform's contracts, tests, and policy checks decide whether an agent's loop is actually done.
Field Note
The death of vibe coding will be boring
The next phase of AI-assisted engineering will not be more magical. It will be more explicit.
Field Note
Technical Value Assurance: The Missing Function in Enterprise Engineering
Technical value assurance closes the gap between delivery and business impact by making value, risk, evidence, and ownership visible.