My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit
BlogSimon WillisonMar 14, 2026
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Simon's fireside chat on the stages of agentic engineering: from 'ChatGPT as occasional helper' to 'the agent writes more code than I do' to 'supervising multiple parallel agents.' The inflection points that separate the phases — and the skills each one demands.
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Sponsored by: Honeycomb — AI agents behave unpredictably. Get the context you need to debug what actually happened. Read the blog I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about Agentic Engineering hosted by Eric Lui from…
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