Series
The Principal Engineer's Agentic Coding Bible
6 parts
A six-part guide for the IT/Cyber/Cloud generalist now orchestrating AI agents instead of writing code. Part 1: the moment the mental model broke, why the tool stopped being an IDE, and the discipline that survives. Spec-Driven, Context, and Harness engineering across the new Agentic Development Life Cycle.
- Part 1 May 25, 2026
The Principal Engineer's Bible, Part 1: When the IDE Stopped Being an IDE
A six-part guide for the IT/Cyber/Cloud generalist now orchestrating AI agents instead of writing code. Part 1: the moment the mental model broke, why the tool stopped being an IDE, and the discipline that survives. Spec-Driven, Context, and Harness engineering across the new Agentic Development Life Cycle.
- Part 2 May 26, 2026
The Principal Engineer's Bible, Part 2: The 2026 ADE Stack with Honest Tool Picks
A six-part guide for the IT/Cyber/Cloud generalist now orchestrating AI agents. Part 2: my actual May 2026 stack, the minimum-viable stack if you're starting fresh, and the tools I downgraded or cut. Plus the platform rules and the promotion ladder from Lovable/Replit to Vercel to GCP.
- Part 3 May 27, 2026
The Principal Engineer's Bible, Part 3: The Security Spine for the AI-DLC
A six-part guide for the IT/Cyber/Cloud generalist now orchestrating AI agents. Part 3 is the security spine. We never fixed SSDLC. Now AI-DLC is showing up alongside it. The puzzle pieces are solved, they're just scattered. A mandate is coming. Supply chain, MCP attack surface, secrets in the agentic era, and the anti-hallucination contract.
- Part 4 May 28, 2026
The Principal Engineer's Bible, Part 4: Standing Up the Agentic Engineering Army
A six-part guide for the IT/Cyber/Cloud generalist now orchestrating AI agents. Part 4 is operationalizing the army: six core agent personas, model routing by phase, orchestration framework picks, default tool allowlists, UI standardization rules, and repository + CI/CD discipline.
- Part 5 May 29, 2026
The Principal Engineer's Bible, Part 5: Production Architecture, MVP to Real Apps
A six-part guide for the IT/Cyber/Cloud generalist now orchestrating AI agents. Part 5 is the production architecture playbook. The Vercel + GCP split, Expo + React Native for mobile, Supabase + Postgres + Row-Level Security as the non-negotiable, and the five-stage SDLC runbook from ideation to V1 hardening.
- Part 6 May 30, 2026
The Principal Engineer's Bible, Part 6: The Operating System You Actually Run
The closing part of the series. Vibe coding failure case studies with the receipts. Compliance and governance baseline. The Notion workspace template. Feature spec template and launch checklists. The daily, weekly, and monthly loops that turn agentic engineering from a hobby into a discipline you can sustain.