Agentic-Coding

Fable 5 is another step up the abstraction ladder on the long journey from “ai is better autocomplete”. We need to yet again throw out old assumptions about how to work with LLMs. Old prompt techniques that worked well before are now too constrictive. It’s a different animal entirely, and using it well means unlearning some habits. Here I’ll describe how I’ve been using it, what works and what still doesn’t. ...

Alex Graveley, the guy behind GitHub Copilot, showed me how I’d been thinking about agentic coding wrong. He used pen and paper. Alex dropped by our Mission Street office on a Tuesday. I told him we had about a week of work left to get self-serve working. “No. That should take 4 hours.” He pulled out a sheet of paper, wrote down ten steps, and handed it to me. That was the plan. ...