Agentic Software Engineering — AI × software engineering, made practical.
Giving every engineer a coding agent seat multiplied throughput but not judgment capacity, and the fix was a review contract, not more seats.
A hiring-loop story about why the scarce skill in the agent era is distrust of confident-looking code, not the ability to write it.
A real Tuesday — including an eleven-minute incident where an agent executed a flawed plan perfectly across 600 tenants — shows the senior engineer's job shifting from writing code to designing the harness that decides whether an agent's conclusions are safe to act on.