JOHN CAMPBELL JR
01 / WRITING

Field notes.

Notes from building software in an increasingly agentic development environment.

IN DEVELOPMENTNOTE 01

What Work Should We Actually Give Coding Agents?

As coding agents become increasingly capable, the important question isn't simply whether an agent can implement something. It's whether we should give the agent the autonomy to do it.

Agentic SDLC / Engineering
AN ONGOING EXPLORATION

Building an Agentic-First SDLC

  1. What Work Should We Give Coding Agents?

    An introduction to the Agentic Suitability Framework.

    OUTLINE
  2. Autonomy Risk

    Programming difficulty and the risk of autonomous execution are different questions.

    PLANNED
  3. Business Exposure

    How the consequences of a change shape acceptable agent autonomy.

    PLANNED
  4. The PR as the Human Boundary

    Where human review belongs, and whether the pull request is enough.

    PLANNED
  5. The Coding Agent Isn’t the Architecture

    The compute, permissions, context, and feedback systems around the model.

    PLANNED