Book · In review

The Agentic Engineer

Building production software with AI agents — principles that will still mean something when the SDKs get rewritten.

Why this book exists

Most AI/coding books rot in 18 months because they teach tools and recipes. The model updates, the SDK changes, the recipe breaks, the book is wallpaper.

The Agentic Engineer is the opposite bet. It's a book of durable principles — how to think about agent boundaries, when to trust an autonomous loop, what production-grade actually looks like for an AI system, why most agent demos fail in real codebases — all anchored in real war stories from shipping Forge (MagmaLabs' Virtual Employee Platform) and a handful of open-source MCP servers.

Every chapter has to pass one test: would this still be useful if every model and SDK got rewritten tomorrow?

Status

Draft is currently out for review with three readers. The next milestone is incorporating their feedback. After that, decisions on publishing path (self-published vs. publisher) and timeline will get made.

Want to chat about the book before it's out? Email me at victor@victorvelazquez.dev.