Ship loops, not code.
The architecture of feedback loops that converge on correct. That's the work now. Not the output. Not the code the system writes. The loop itself: how you steer it, how you improve it, how it changes what you're capable of building.
2500+
research papers scanned
450+
agentic setups tested
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The Levels of Agentic Programming
Most developers are stuck at level 2. Here's the full progression from autocomplete to autonomous agents, and what changes at each step.
> Intelligence
> Sitrep
Agentic Situation Report, 2026 H1
Every six months, a ground-truth assessment of where agentic development stands.
What shifted. What didn't. What you should do about it.
> SIGINT
2,500+ research papers on agentic development.
All-source analysis of every major claim in the field. Assessed, cataloged, and rated
for methodological rigor. Trend analysis, disagreements between papers, and what
makes research go viral vs. what holds up.
> Agent Lab
Sweeping the jagged frontier for the best agentic configurations.
A multi-dimensional sweep of agentic capability space. Same task, hundreds of
configurations, run until the confidence intervals are small. Separating the
setup changes that drive results from noise. The frontier moves, so the research
is evergreen.
> Field Notes
> Case Study
The agent did exactly what you told it to. That was the problem.
Cursor deleted production code by following instructions precisely. A documented failure
and the supervision model that would have caught it.
> Framework
The 80/20 trap
The first 80% feels like flying. The last 20% feels like you wrote it twice. Why
agent-assisted work has a predictable failure point, and how to plan around it.
> Case Study
When your agent drops the database
Replit's agent autonomously wiped a production database. The full failure chain
and the three guardrails that were missing.
> Pattern
Specs before prompts
Write the spec first. Prompt from the spec. Validate against the spec. Everything
else is guessing.