Agentic coding creates leverage only when engineers stay in control of the workflow. Once agents begin writing code, the engineer’s job is to bound the task, supervise the work, verify the output, refactor the result, and own every meaningful change that enters the system.

This talk explains how engineers can keep control when AI coding agents are producing significant implementation work. The control point is not one perfect prompt. It is a disciplined workflow: clear task boundaries, explicit checkpoints, specification before generation, verification before trust, refactoring before review, and comprehension before merge. Without those controls, agentic coding can move faster than the engineer’s understanding of the system.

The session shows how to structure agentic coding so speed does not outrun engineering rigor. Engineers need to break work into bounded tasks, require agents to map intermediate steps before execution, inspect intermediate output during the session, reduce scope when output gets shaky, and separate specification, generation, verification, and refactoring into distinct passes. For larger efforts, engineers need orchestrator and subagent workflows that keep task state clear, reduce context pollution, and preserve human control across multiple sessions.

Attendees will leave with a practical control model for agentic coding: define the task boundary, establish the validation loop, inspect intermediate output, rescope when the agent drifts, refactor before review, and require the submitting engineer to understand and explain every meaningful change before merge.

This talk directly references the author’s Engineering Standards for Agentic Software Development, especially SP1, TB1, TB4, TB5, AM1, RF1-RF4, and AC2: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/engineering-standards-agentic-software-development-edensoft-park-ki1se

Target audience: CTOs, VPs of Engineering, engineering directors, senior engineers, staff engineers, and teams scaling agentic coding practices.

Preferred Session Duration:
50 mins including Q&A