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Addy Osmani is an engineering and evangelism leader and a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he works on Claude Code. He spent over 14 years at Google leading developer experience across Chrome and, in recent years, AI (Gemini, coding agents, and agentic engineering), most recently as a Director at Google Cloud AI.
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Brownfield Agentic Engineering
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14 Sep 2026
What it takes to run agents in a codebase older than the team
Agentic Skill Decay
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31 Aug 2026
Agents can finish the task without teaching you anything. Building expertise now has to be deliberate.
Audit your Agent files
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27 Aug 2026
A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.
Human judgment doesn't leave the software factory. It relocates.
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21 Aug 2026
A field guide to building a software factory that still has an owner.
Practical Loop Engineering
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14 Aug 2026
Goals, loops, and the discipline of not delegating your judgment
Agentic Code Quality
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8 Aug 2026
Quality now depends on the constraints you set around your agents.
Software Factories, Light and Dark
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20 Jul 2026
A software factory is harnessing loops at scale - the system that builds your software instead of you. You can run the loop with humans in it (light factory) or you can ignore the humans (dark
Own the Outer Loop
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15 Jul 2026
Engineers need to own the outer loop, the accountability for these systems. A written version of my AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 closing keynote: quality, verdict, and answerability, the three
Earning taste and judgment
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14 Jul 2026
Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you're junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose. A builder's look at the weakening entry level, the two
The Agent-Era Career
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6 Jul 2026
AI gets good at anything with an answer key. Your career is everything that doesn't have one.
Agentic Autonomy Levels
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2 Jul 2026
The action in agentic engineering has moved from prompting to operating. Autonomy isn't one ladder, it's two axes (agency and orchestration) and six levels you move between per task. The real
The New Software Lifecycle
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16 Jun 2026
I co-wrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ideas in it I think actually matter, plus
Agentic Code Review
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15 Jun 2026
Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code to deciding whether to trust it, which
Loop Engineering
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7 Jun 2026
You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks plus somewhere to keep notes, and Codex and