Most agentic-coding sessions fail in the first prompt. We’ve found a middle path: spend 12 minutes on the brief, then let the agent run. Here’s the structure.
An agent that ships features in a clean Next.js app will fall over in a 12-year-old PHP estate. The reason isn’t model intelligence. It’s context — and legacy codebases hide their rules where agents can’t see them.
Three agentic coding tools dominate UK developer workflows in mid-2026. They look similar from the outside. They are optimised for very different jobs. Picking the wrong one costs a fortnight.
Reading every line of AI-generated code feels responsible. It also stops agentic coding from compounding. Review the plan, the inputs, and the outputs — not the diff.