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title: "agentic engineering takes discipline"
description: "Agents allow so much scope creep it is harder to say no than it is to say yes, and let the model just pop in a new feature for you alongside you current pr..."
date: 2026-08-18
published: true
tags:
  - ping
template: ping
---


Agents allow so much scope creep it is harder to say no than it is to say yes, and let the model just pop in a new feature for you alongside you current pr with almost no effort on your befalf, staking up so much validation work for you to do that it becomes very difficult to merge.  We are all learning this discipline right now.