Hoard things you know how to do
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Generative AI
Agentic Engineering Patterns > Many of my tips for working productively with coding agents are extensions of advice I've found useful in my career without them. Here's a great example of that: hoard things you know how to do. A big part of the skill in building software is understanding what's possible and what isn't, and having at least a rough idea of how those things can be accomplished. These questions can be broad or quite obscure.