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Software Engineering in the Agentic Era
How one engineer and a fleet of AI agents ship real software.
Code got cheap. Judgment did not. This is the field guide we wish we had when we started running about 170 repositories with a handful of humans and a fleet of AI agents: how work gets framed, fanned out, checked, shipped, secured, paid for and announced when typing is no longer the bottleneck.
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What is inside
- Part I: The Shift
- The Bottleneck Moved
- One Engineer, a Fleet
- How Agents Fail
- Part II: The Workbench
- The Terminal Is Back
- A Browser Agents Can Drive
- Pairing With Humans and Agents
- A Stack Agents Can Read
- Part III: The Loop
- Frame, Fan Out, Gate
- Review Is the Job
- Ship Everywhere
- Tell Somebody
- Part IV: Running the Fleet
- Keys, Vaults and Blast Radius
- Money for Machines
- Identity for Agents
- Compute on Tap
- Part V: The People
- Careers in the Agentic Era
- The Playbook
- Appendices
- The Toolbox: every tool with its install command
- Glossary
- Built This Way: the Profullstack network
Tools you will meet
- moshcodedrive every coding agent from one CLI
- TronBrowsera browser your agents can drive over MCP
- PairUXtwo-cursor pairing with a seat for the agent
- hqtuibtop-grade terminal UIs
- sh1ptone codebase to every store and channel
- ThreatCrushsecurity for boxes agents hold keys to
- CoinPaymoney for machines, x402 included
- mynatell the world from your terminal
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