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The 10 Levels of Agentic Engineering — Where Are You?
A unified framework for measuring your AI agent maturity, from terminal tourist to swarm architect. Find out where you stand on the 0-900 scale.
8 min
Precious Oaseru Osaro
LEADERSHIP·SOFTWARE ENGINEERING·SECURITY·AI·MENTORSHIP
Precious Oaseru Osaro is an engineering leader who enjoys building products, solving hard problems, and developing high-performing teams that solve problems. He is currently building projects like JustRever—an AI-powered scam protection platform and Memory, a product designed to help our memories live forever. Precious explores the future of engineering leadership, software development and team culture. And also loves to mentor and help others learn and grow.
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Prompt Engineering is Dead — Long Live Context Engineering
Why 'You are a senior developer...' prompts are becoming irrelevant, and what's replacing them. The shift from prompt crafting to context design.
7 min
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Understanding AI Models and Pricing — A Developer's Cost Guide (2026)
Every major model compared by role, cost tier, and use case. Plus the routing pattern that cuts costs by 65%.
6 min
013
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Agentic Setup for Claude — Context, Skills, and Tools
A practical guide to setting up Claude Code with CLAUDE.md, custom skills, and MCP servers.
6 min
012
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Agentic Setup for GitHub Copilot — Context, Skills, and Tools
The same three-layer framework applied to GitHub Copilot's ecosystem. Context, skills, and tools compared to Claude Code.
5 min
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Agentic Setup for Cursor — Context, Skills, and Tools
Cursor-specific configuration for context engineering with .cursorrules, plan mode, and multi-agent.
5 min
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Self-Learning AI — The Compounding Loop That Changes Everything
Plan, Delegate, Assess, Codify. How AI agents improve with every session through structured feedback.
7 min
009
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Hooks and Loops — The Automation Glue for AI Agents
PreSession, PostTask, PostToolUse, PostApproval — how hooks make everything automatic.
6 min
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Orchestration Patterns for AI Agents — From Solo to Swarm
Sequential, parallel, multi-model, feedback loops. Plus the reviewer rule and Gas Town.
7 min
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MCP Connections — Connecting Your AI Agent to Everything
The Model Context Protocol explained: what it is, how to set it up, and why it is the USB-C for AI.
6 min
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Improving Your Workflow with AI — The Personal Framework
Don't chase tools. Analyse YOUR workflow. Map AI into YOUR process. Build from there.
6 min
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Back to Waterfall — Why Old-School Requirements Matter More Than Ever
Happy path, error path, personas, edge cases. What agile skipped and AI needs.
6 min
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Spec-Driven Development — Why AI Needs Better Requirements Than Humans
How to write specs that AI agents can execute precisely. The planner agent workflow.
6 min
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LEADERSHIP
The Software Developer's Rights in an Agile Team
The right to say "this is not ready" — one of the most important rights a developer has, yet the one that has lost its impact the most, especially when faced with unfinished requirements, unclear product requirement and intense management pressure
8 min
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SECURITY
Passkey: The Next Generation of Mobile User Authentication
Complete technical guide to passkeys, OPAQUE protocol, and cryptographic authentication. Learn WebAuthn, FIDO2 implementation, authentication lifecycle, and security best practices for iOS and Android.
10 min
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MENTORSHIP
What 1,500 minutes of Mentoring This Year taught me about the future of engineering
After nearly 1,500 minutes of mentoring engineers at every level, I finally understand what separates great engineers from those who just write code.
7 min