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Original: https://addyosmani.com/agentic-engineering/the-70-percent-problem/
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Summary
A glossary entry from Addy Osmani’s agentic-engineering glossary defining “the 70% problem”: AI coding tools quickly produce a working first draft covering the easy 70% of a task (structure, boilerplate, happy-path logic), while the remaining 30% (edge cases, security, accessibility, integration) takes longer and requires human engineering judgment. It argues this gap is the reason agentic engineering exists as a discipline, shifting an engineer’s effort from writing code to reviewing and closing that remaining 30%.