Agentic Engineering, Part 2: Feedback Loops, Hooks, and Verification

This is Part 2 of a three-part series on building an AI development harness. Part 1 covered the harness as a concept. Part 3 will cover team adoption and the new engineering bar. In Part 1, I argued that the system around the agent matters more than the agent itself. This post is about the part of that system that does the most work: the feedback loops. Without them, the agent is writing code in a…