The Core Journey

Featured Guide
Agentic Engineering March 2026
The Agentic Engineering Journey
A practical guide to creating a software Dark Factory

A direct guide to the five levels of AI-assisted development and the three frameworks — DDD, BMAD, and Attractor — that help navigate the transition.

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Latest Field Notes

Field Notes March 2026
Path to Transformation
Harnessing Agentic Engineering for the Enterprise

A practical guide series for the enterprise agentic transition — and why brownfield projects need a different conversation.

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Deep Dive Curriculum: The Path to the Dark Factory

Stage 1: Foundations
Guide 1
Domain-Driven Design

The conceptual foundation. Stripping away the Java-era ceremony to focus on Ubiquitous Language and Bounded Contexts.

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Guide 2
Event Storming

The discovery method. A workshop guide to mapping business reality with stakeholders using little more than sticky notes.

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Guide 3
The Flowchart-First Path

The offline alternative. Building domain models from existing enterprise documentation and swimlane charts.

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Stage 2: Bridging
Guide 4
Domain Context Engineering

The LLM-driven pipeline. Using domain-ctx.txt to generate BMAD artefacts with zero terminology drift.

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Stage 3: Execution
Guide 5
The BMAD Method

Structured execution at Levels 3 and 4. Agent roles, artefact chains, and human-in-the-loop governance.

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Guide 6
Attractor Framework

The lights-out factory. Specifications and scenarios driving agents to production with ADR-based governance.

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In Practice
Reference Implementation
Worked Example June 2026
Harness Engineering in Practice
A concrete reference implementation — greenfield and brownfield

The theory is done. This is how to actually do it. A file-based harness with human gates, context recovery, and worked examples for both new projects and existing codebases. The series concludes here.

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Final Synthesis
Guide 7
From Domain to Factory

The argument that ties it all together. A dependency sequence for entering the era of Harness Engineering.

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