Agentic development
Agentic software development, led by senior engineers.
What changes when experienced engineers can hand implementation work to software agents? The work gets faster. The standard doesn't move.
What it isn't
Clearing up a few assumptions.
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Not code nobody has reviewed.
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Not a replacement for engineers.
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Not a way to skip discovery, testing or review.
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Not a black box: you see the work every sprint.
The model
Who does what.
Human
Senior engineer
- architecture
- security boundaries
- data modelling
- commercial judgement
Agents
Supervised agents
- research
- implementation
- tests
- migrations
- refactoring
Human
Senior review
- review
- validate
- ship
How it works
How a change moves through the system.
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Plan
The engineer breaks the work into well-defined tasks with clear acceptance criteria.
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Delegate
Agents implement, write tests and run them against the codebase.
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Review
The engineer reviews each change, and rejects or rewrites anything that isn't right.
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Ship
Merged through CI with automated tests, then released in small steps.
The guardrails.
AI changes how fast we write code, not how good it has to be.
- Agents never merge their own work
- No client data in unapproved tools
- Security, auth and payments designed by a human
- Automated tests on every change
- A full audit trail in version control
- Your AI policy respected, including none
Questions
What people usually ask.
Is AI-generated code safe?
It's as safe as the review process around it. Unreviewed AI code can contain subtle bugs and security issues. That's why agents work in small, testable steps, and a senior engineer reviews every change against the architecture, the security model and the tests.
Does it mean lower quality?
No. The same discovery, sprints, testing and review happen. Agents remove the waiting between steps, not the steps themselves.
Why does it cost less?
Agents handle the volume work that a traditional agency model would staff with more people. A smaller, senior team means more of your budget goes into the product.
Can you work without AI?
Yes. Contracting clients can choose no AI, AI-assisted or fully agentic delivery, agreed in writing before work starts.
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