Developer Tea
Developer Tea
Jonathan Cutrell
Software Engineering Principles That Still Hold Up in an Agentic World - Old Lessons Made New
31 minutes Posted Jun 18, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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The skills problem isn't going anywhere — it's just wearing new clothes. In this episode, I unpack how the lessons we learned decades ago (limiting work in progress, the theory of constraints, test-driven development) are coming roaring back as the fundamentals that will carry you through the agentic shift. The bottleneck has moved, and knowing where it went changes how you should work.