Agentic Coding

101: The Landscape

Key question: Where are we?

This Chapter's ACIs

ACI Name Takeaway
ACI-001 The Agentic-Assistive Spectrum Tools run from assistive to agentic, and a new mental model moves you along, not a new tool. From the assistive end, the next step is conversational.
ACI-002 The Methodology Desert Tools are abundant and reusable methodology is scarce. Judge a tool by the practice around it, and count what a framework ships.
ACI-003 The Ten Percent Problem By the survey's estimate, most developers stay at autocomplete. A share or multiplier without its source, date and convention is an estimate, so label it.
ACI-004 The Tool-Practice Gap Documentation gets you to adoption. The practice that follows takes months and depends on your project.
ACI-005 The Productivity Claim Productivity is a distribution by task type, never one number. Print every count with its ref, its date and its counting convention.
ACI-006 The Generation Trap When code is cheap, writing more of it is the trap. Measure progress by what was validated: the tracks are free, and the taste is not.