Agentic coding

A form of AI-aided programming that reduces human intervention and lets agents work for longer on larger tasks. It differs from mindless vibe coding.

IDEs

2025-11-09 - Speculative Tree Search (thinking about giving AI more work while reducing the human review burden).
2025-08-19 - Retrospective of Agentic Coding Experiments
2025-08-03 - Agentic Coding Experiment 3. Specifications rather than a requirements document, plus stateless AI–human interaction.
2025-04-25 - Agentic Coding Experiment 2. Revised based on the thoughts in Software Engineering in the AI Era.
2025-04-12 - Agentic Coding Experiment 1. An attempt to imitate existing human workflows by defining planning, implementation, and refactoring agents.
2024-10-01 - Started using Cursor Composer (the former name for its agent feature) around this time.
2024-09-08 - Started using Cursor.
2023-10-21 - Tried Sweep AI and left a note.
2023-10-19 - Tried CodeRabbit and left a note.
2021-07-15 - Started using GitHub Copilot.