Agentic Methods: Coding With AI Agents, Designing For Agents
TL;DR
"Agentic methods" covers two distinct things colliding right now: AI agents that code alongside the team (read, write, run, verify, in a loop), and agentic architectures we design into our own systems (orchestrating autonomous agents on the product side).
In both cases, the same principle applies: an agent is only useful if the contract around it is explicit — scope, errors, permissions, stopping points.
The Tech Lead role doesn't disappear, it shifts: fewer lines typed, more specification, review, and governance.
