Journal 2026-03
March 2026 journal
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2026-03-13
As a result of Agentic engineering experiment 4, I made a small CLI called specdown. You write specifications in Markdown, interspersing executable acceptance tests and Alloy models. See:
Here is part of the specification for extracting YAML frontmatter from a Markdown document:
2026-03-03
Like humans, LLMs are vulnerable to unknown unknowns, so sometimes they struggle even with agentic search. They don’t know they need to look something up in the first place. Even if LLMs gain continual learning, might they still need guidance for a while?
Agentic engineering feels too narrow a term to encompass everything I want to do. A name like Agentic Production System or Agentic Production & Operation might fit better.
2026-03-01
Having coding agents do work is giving me all sorts of things to write about, which is nice. A byproduct of today’s work:
When I document these perspectives well, agents increasingly work the way I like.