Type: url
Original: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/agentic-engineering-patterns/
Status: generated
Summary
The post announcing Agentic Engineering Patterns, a chapter-shaped guide collecting practices for getting good results out of coding agents. It sets out the terminology the project rests on — “agentic engineering” for building software with agents that both generate and execute code, against “vibe coding” in its original sense of paying no attention to the code at all — and describes the publishing format it introduces for the project: a “guide” of “chapters”, each a post with a de-emphasised date that is meant to be updated rather than frozen. It also states a policy of publishing no AI-generated prose under the author’s own name.