Re:Agentic Engineering Patterns
by vidarh on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:36AM
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There are many layers to "knowing how stuff works". What does your manager do when your code breaks?
> Continue to throw your LLM at it?
Increasingly, yes. If you have objective acceptance criteria, just putting the LLM in a loop with a quality gate tends to have it converge on a fix itself, the same way a human would. Not always, and not always optimally, but more and more often, and with cheaper and cheaper models.
I also tend to throw in an analysis stage where it will look at what went wrong and use that to add additional criteria for the next run.
> Continue to throw your LLM at it?
Increasingly, yes. If you have objective acceptance criteria, just putting the LLM in a loop with a quality gate tends to have it converge on a fix itself, the same way a human would. Not always, and not always optimally, but more and more often, and with cheaper and cheaper models.
I also tend to throw in an analysis stage where it will look at what went wrong and use that to add additional criteria for the next run.