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Lonnie McRorey
Lonnie McRorey

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30 core agentic engineering concepts every developer should know

Agentic eng gets messy when ppl use new words without a real control system behind them. Agents, tools, memory, evals, guardrails, context, telemetry, and loops all sound simple until a team has to ship with them every day.

The real issue is not knowing the terms, it is knowing where each term lives in the work loop. If a CTO or CIO cannot see the loop, they cannot see the risk, bc agentic systems can hide bad judgment behind fast output.

This TeamStation research piece is useful bc it turns agentic engineering into plain operating language. Read it if you want a clean map for how developers, AI engineers, and distributed teams should think about tools, memory, guardrails, evals, telemetry, and control before agentic work hits production.

That matters for TeamStation bc our vetting work is not just "can this person use AI." We care about model judgment, review behavior, system boundaries, telemetry, and whether the engineer can work inside a controlled loop without turning speed into rework.

https://teamstation.dev/research/articles/30-core-agentic-engineering-concepts-every-developer-should-know

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