Agentic Software Engineering is a 2026 book by Ahmed E. Hassan. It argues that producing code is not software engineering’s real bottleneck — the actual challenge is managing complexity, communication, and system integrity over time. The book frames Agentic Software Engineering as the discipline of ensuring reliability and trust from stochastic AI and human contributors, and argues that success in this new era belongs to teams who set clear intent, manage risk boundaries, and demand evidence, rather than to whoever types fastest.
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Its promotional site offers a downloadable PDF of the full text alongside a 27-minute AI-generated audio summary of its core concepts.