From c5441c0b2d873ee8510ed73b6aae6168f2cd33d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 12:26:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos in agentic AI yak shaving blog post MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Corrects 8 typos: agnetic→agentic, "look over of"→"look over", worfklow→workflow, duplicate "in,", "end of that the end"→"end of it", "to to"→"to", "This is feels"→"This feels", maximimalist→maximalist. --- .../agentic_ai_yak_shaving_on_steroids.mdx | 39 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/routes/posts/agentic_ai_yak_shaving_on_steroids.mdx diff --git a/src/routes/posts/agentic_ai_yak_shaving_on_steroids.mdx b/src/routes/posts/agentic_ai_yak_shaving_on_steroids.mdx new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ed05a2c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/routes/posts/agentic_ai_yak_shaving_on_steroids.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +meta: + title: Agentic AI - yak shaving on steroids + description: The prospect of having agentic AI do all the real work means that we now focus on tuning the AI, not delivering the work. + dateCreated: 2026-05-21 + image: "yak_shaving" + +tags: + - "ai" + +--- +import yak_shaving from "@/assets/yak_shaving.jpeg"; + +I've been playing around with agentic AI for a side project recently, and I can absolutely see a world where the workflow is like this: + +1. I have an iterative session with an AI to define a feature - the outcome of this is an AI generated brief +2. The AI goes off and implements the feature, unsupervised, the outcome of this is a pull request. +3. I review the pull request - what I'm looking for is a cursory look over the code to check that the patterns are holding, and brief manual verification that the feature is working. + +_This is not my current workflow_ - that step 2. I have to supervise - because the AI goes off into rabbit holes and burns all my tokens and creates some messes. + +But this workflow seems tantalisingly in reach - whether that's all a fugazi is a different story. + +I have limited time. I work a full time job, and I have a four-year old and two four-month old babies, and I need to exercise. So with my side project, of which I'm about 40 hours in, I could spend my limited time chipping away at building new features, or I could spend it: + +- Optimising my prompts +- Adding lint rules and other guard rail test scripts +- Adding generation scripts + +All in the hope that at the end of it, in some future world - creating this application will be a delightful breeze - I'll be able to informally have a chat session with an AI, creating a list of features I want to see, and then come back the next night to review and merge the code it has created. + +ai generated image. A man is scoffing some pills while holding some shears. In the background are some yaks. The man is saying 'gonna go shave me some yaks' + + +This feels like yak-shaving. Perhaps this is another bit of software engineering wisdom that is disrupted by AI. + +The AI maximalist might argue that - 'This isn't yak shaving - this is what the job is now, you're not building products, you're building a factory that builds products'. + +This might be a reasonable statement for a project at a high level of AI maturity - but there is an awkward transition as you move from a conventional software delivery model to this mature AI driven one. \ No newline at end of file