The original title is "Agentic Engineering #0: Beyond Chat – The Foundation of Agentic Engineering"

Short summary

This series introduction argues that current AI coding tools still require engineers to do all the context-gathering work. Agentic Engineering proposes giving AI agents objectives rather than isolated questions—letting them discover PRs, retrieve code, understand Jira stories, and produce structured reviews autonomously. The author traces automation evolution from scripts to CI/CD to GitHub Actions to RPA, noting each remains deterministic while agents pursue goals with reasoning.

• •Current AI coding tools still require engineers to manually bridge context between tools
• •Agentic Engineering gives AI objectives instead of isolated questions, letting agents gather context autonomously
• •Agents differ from traditional automation by pursuing goals with reasoning rather than following predefined instructions

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