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Agents write most of our code now. That’s not a complaint — it’s the best leverage I’ve seen in my career. But it’s created a quiet failure mode: people start treating the agent as the engineer, and themselves as the person who pressed go. The output got faster; the responsibility didn’t move anywhere. These are the four principles I keep coming back to with the team.…
Most teams still design software like a human is going to click through it. They build the frontend first, treat the API as plumbing behind it, and bolt a CLI on at the end if anyone asks. That order made sense when the user was always a person. It doesn’t anymore. The fastest-growing user of any non-trivial software product right now is an agent — driving it through an API, an MCP server,…
Most engineers on our team are using AI agents now. The question isn’t whether to use them — it’s how . And most people get this wrong. There’s a spectrum from full autonomy (“build me this”) to tight step-by-step direction (“use this exact pattern, handle this edge case, call this function”). Most engineers default to one mode and stay there. The ones…
$ whoami I’m Patrik Potocki , CTO at Fast Track — an iGaming player engagement platform trusted by some of the industry’s biggest operators. I lead the engineering organization and own the technical direction of our platform: architecture, infrastructure, developer experience, and delivery. $ cat career.log Fast Track — CTO (current) Led the complete infrastructure redesign: migrated…