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Greg Ceccarelli

Co-Founder • Ex-CPO Pluralsight • Data at GitHub, Dropbox & Google

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Everyone teaches idea-to-prototype. Almost no one teaches the hard part: making an agent's code correct, yours to own, and safe to ship.&nbsp;This 64-page book distills 25 patterns from an eight-month build: 1,310 recorded sessions and 4,670 commits behind <a href="https://withstoa.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stoa</a>. Every pattern traces to real commits, sessions, or files.&nbsp;In six parts, you'll learn to brief a goal the agent grades itself against, verify its work against evidence it can't fake, steer a live run, and route models like a team.&nbsp;A free field guide PDF: the same patterns our course is built on.

25 Patterns in Agentic Engineering: the field guide to shipping real software by steering agents.

Build an agentic harness end-to-end, hands on, and walk away able to brief the goal, steer the run, and verify on your own repo confidently.

Founder, SpecStory • Ex-CPO, Pluralsight

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Co-Founder, SpecStory • Ex-CPO Pluralsight • Data at GitHub, Dropbox & Google

Founder, SpecStory • Ex-CPO, Docker

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Jake Levirne

Co-Founder, SpecStory • Ex-CPO Docker  • Product at Digital Ocean, YesWare & IBM

The Transformation:Stop trusting the green checkmark. Walk out driving agents on real work and proving it before you push.What you'll do:<ul><li>Build a real agentic harness in 3 weeks from an initial loop to a verified deterministic gate</li><li>Brief the goal, steer the run, verify the result: in class, then on your own repo each week. You'll ship on Demo Day.</li></ul>Why this matters:Everyone worries AI makes engineers worse. After two years building entirely with agents, we've found the opposite: a high-ceiling skill is forming: driving agents to produce work, then engineering the proof it's correct.The split isn't who uses AI; everyone does. It's engineering your mindset, process, and harness versus letting agents ship slop.Agentic Engineering where the unit of review is a goal, not a diff is a brand-new practice.<ul><li>The courses that do exist teach the easy part: idea to prototype in minutes.</li><li>The hard part: making an agent's code correct, yours to understand, and safe to ship over months is what almost no one can teach, because few have done it for real.</li></ul>We have, entirely by driving agents (what we build at SpecStory, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/specstoryai/getspecstory/">used by 200K+ engineers</a>). And you'll learn it live in a build room we made: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://withstoa.com">Stoa</a>, not Zoom.

Driving agents effectively is the engineering skill that matters most right now.

Engineer a brief an agent can run unattended via Goals

Verify against what the agent can't internally assess with calibrated distrust.

Steer the run live: be the operator, not a tokenmaxxer of slop.

Engineer the context your next solo agent (or team's agent) runs on

Learn how to orchestrate agents for specific outcomes.

You've built and shipped software before. This isn't an intro to coding or AI; we'll move fast and assume pre-existing judgment.

This is NOT a beginner course

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc on actual projects at work or in OSS. We sharpen how you brief and verify it, not the basics of the tool.

You use a coding agent weekly on real work (and have access to one)

Tests, commits, branches, worktrees are familiar. We build on these, so class time goes to judgment, not setup.

Comfortable with VCS (git) and testing

Experienced Engineers who need to move beyond prompt &amp; context engineering. You'll learn to brief, steer, verify and own every change.

Product Founders whose early velocity vibe coding feels like luck. You'll turn it into a repeatable method that holds up over months.

Seasoned PMs and Tech Leads whose job became spec-writing. Your leverage is actually designing goals and proving results.

Greg Ceccarelli will make you an agentic engineer

Greg Ceccarelli

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Hardcore Agentic Engineering for builders who ship

Resources

25 Patterns in Agentic Engineering: the field guide to shipping real software by steering agents.