Tactical Agentic Coding – Agentic Engineer

Master the tactics of Agentic Coding. Scale FAR beyond AI Coding and Vibe Coding with advanced Agentic Engineering so powerful that your codebase runs itself.

AI CODING IS NOT ENOUGH

Here’s what most engineers miss:

1. AI Coding was just the beginning (Phase 1)
2. Vibe Coding is the lowest hanging fruit
3. 95% of all codebases are now outdated and inefficient
4. IMPORTANT: You, the engineer, are the bottleneck — not the models – not the tools – not the agents

While everyone sits “In the Loop” prompting back and forth with powerful agentic coding tools, 90% of the true value of AI Agents like Claude Code lies untapped. Engineers are wasting their exponential potential because they lack the information needed to use Agentic Coding at peak performance.

The Problem Is… Most of the tech industry is still building as if AI Agents don’t exist. Why? Because most engineers don’t understand that the old ways of engineering, and even AI Coding, are completely outdated. With the creation of AI Agents (with Claude Code leading the way), a new engineering role has emerged, and in order to scale beyond AI Coding and vibe coding, you must begin your evolution into this new role.

What’s the new engineering role? Take a quick look at the URL you’re on right now. I’ve been holding this URL for years, while building the skills and beliefs needed for this transition. Hoping that one day, the right compute and the right tooling would emerge. Today, it’s finally time. You and I can now become Agentic Engineers.

Agentic Engineering isn’t about models, prompting, or agents — it’s about composing the old world of software engineering with the new world of agents to achieve exponential scales of engineering. It’s about stepping out of the loop entirely. It’s about building systems that build systems. It’s about encoding your engineering excellence into your agents with templates and ADWs so they ship on your behalf while maintaining your engineering standards, while you’re AFK.

With Tactical Agentic Coding – TAC, you’ll begin your transition into this new role of engineering to unlock exponential scales of engineering for you, your team and your customers.

Here, in TAC, you’ll think hard and learn to step out of the loop.

Let’s start with a simple question that guides everything you’ll accomplish in TAC…

What if your codebase could ship itself?

NOT FOR BEGINNERS

If you’re not actively shipping production code, close this tab now. TAC is built exclusively for the top 20% of engineers who are ready to push their engineering abilities to the next-next level. Watch this to qualify.

What will you learn?

In Tactical Agentic Coding, my mission is to transform you into an engineer THEY CAN’T REPLACE.

How will we accomplish this massive goal?
We’ll do this by committing to two career-changing decisions:

1. Let go of the old ways of engineering
2. Master the new best tool for engineering: Agents

You’ll master Agents by internalizing 8 Tactics of Agentic Coding that elevate you into an engineer that BUILDS THE SYSTEM – THAT BUILDS THE SYSTEM.

The 12 Leverage Points of Agentic Coding

Master the in-agent and through-agent leverage points that maximize your agents’ autonomy. Learn to stack standard out, types, tests, architecture, other leverage points for inevitable agentic success.

Out of the Loop Engineering

Progress from “In the Loop” prompting to fully autonomous “Out of the Loop” systems. There’s repeat work you’re doing right now that you don’t have to be IF you have the right agent pipeline.

Teach Your Agents Your Way

Encode your best engineering practices into your agents so they ship how you would ship. Transform vague prompts into production-ready specifications automatically.

AI Developer Workflows (ADWs)

Build the highest level of agentic abstraction by combining deterministic code with non-deterministic agents. Create workflows of agents that automate entire classes of engineering work autonomously.

Measure Your Agentic Success

Track your progression with four critical agentic coding KPIs. Instead of guessing if you’re improving as an agentic engineer, KNOW you’re improving.

Prioritize Your Agents

Progress toward the North Star of agentic coding where your codebase literally runs itself. Shift your focus from the AI coding your application layer to building the system that builds the system.

BUILD SYSTEMS THAT BUILD SYSTEMS

Success in Phase 2 of the Generative AI age requires more than AI Coding and Vibe Coding. Here’s the trick: Don’t build your codebase — build your agent pipeline that builds your codebase. These aren’t just tactics, they’re the foundation of a new engineering paradigm where your best engineering practices are encoded once and executed infinitely by fleets of specialized agents. Inside of Tactical Agentic Coding you’ll learn the exact steps to build the system that builds the system. This will give you a (massive) asymmetric advantage in the age of agents.

STOP CODING START TEMPLATING

The irreplaceable engineers of tomorrow aren’t typing code. They’re commanding compute. Building pipelines of AI Agents that ship features with their best practices. While everyone else is stuck “In the Loop” prompting back and forth, wasting their time and potential. With TAC, you’ll learn to stop coding and start encoding your engineering into your agents for repeat success. Instead of writing prompts (yourself or with agents), you’ll learn to encode your engineering best practices into your agents. Your agents will then use your guide to write and execute plans, docs, tests, and anything you need. This new type of prompt will lead you to massively scaling up your plan and review velocity, the two constraints of agentic coding.

MASTER THE SCALE OF THE CORE FOUR

Tools have been around for a while, but only with powerful agentic coding tools like Claude Code can you now exploit the scale of the Core Four: Context, Model, Prompt, and Tools. We’re talking long-running (minutes to hours), self-correcting, self-validating, self-documenting agent pipelines that run on your behalf. This enables something incredible, you can stop working IN your codebase and start working ON your AI Agents. How well you build and deploy agents that operate your application determines your success in Phase 2 of the Generative AI age.

WHAT’S INSIDE?

2 Separate Courses • 1 Mission

TACTICAL AGENTIC CODING

The core 8-lesson 8-tactic course that accelerates you toward Agentic Engineering.

+  Shift from AI Coding to Agentic Coding: Learn the essential ideas to shift from the old ways of engineering to the new. It’s not about what we can do anymore it’s about what we can TEACH our agents to do.

+ 8 Tactics of Agentic Coding: Each lesson offers you key next generation engineering tactics you can use to guide your daily engineering. Each tactic helps you pull the future of engineering into the present.

+ Build The System That Builds The System: Master the meta-engineering approach where irreplaceable engineers of today and tomorrow operate.

No AGI, no ASI just pure, boots on the ground Engineering with Agents:

We’re not waiting for another model, tool, or agent. Throughout each lesson, we’re putting our boots on the ground and using the best tool for the job of engineering for today’s problems.

AGENTIC HORIZON

Upgradable extended mastery lessons for engineers ready to push beyond the big ideas in Tactical Agentic Coding with more topic-specific lessons (Claude Code, Context Engineering, Custom Agents). 6 advanced lessons available now.

+ Elite Context Engineering: The R&D Framework for context window mastery across 12 techniques

+ Agentic Prompt Engineering: Master the 7-level hierarchy from simple prompts to self-improving meta prompts

+ Claude Agent SDK Mastery: Build custom agents for your domain, your problems, your edge cases

+ Multi-Agent Orchestration: CRUD, manage and scale your fleet of agents through a single orchestrator agent real-time observability

+ Agent Experts: Transform forgetful agents into learning machines with expertise files and self-improving prompts

+ Building Agentic Layers: The comprehensive roadmap to building powerful Agentic Layers that lead you to the Codebase Singularity

6 Advanced Lessons (Complete Agentic Horizon):

With Agentic Horizon you get all 6 advanced lessons covering the complete journey from prompt engineering to the Codebase Singularity.

In Tactical Agentic Coding you’ll have access to eight lessons that accelerate you from AI Coding to Agentic Coding. First we set the stage in our two beginner lessons, then move to three intermediate and conclude with three advanced lessons. You can also upgrade to gain access to a separate extended lesson set: Agentic Horizon.

The 12 Leverage Points of Agentic Coding

Step inside your agent’s context window and see your codebase through its eyes. Master the Core Four and eight additional leverage points to maximize not what you can do, but what your agents can do for you.

Success is Planned: The 80-20 of Agentic Coding

First came prompts, then came plans and what comes next will push your ability to hand off work to your agents even further beyond. Learn a powerful leverage point of agentic coding that enables your agents to ship with you and your team’s engineering best practices.

AFK Agents: Let Your Product Build Itself

Move beyond ‘in the loop’ agentic coding with a single agent with the PITER framework. Transform problems into solutions with a single prompt. Replace generic, ‘built for everyone’ expensive cloud tools with your own superior pipeline of agents that knows YOUR codebase and YOUR domain specific problems.

Let Your Agents Focus: Agentic Review and Documentation

Reach a critical milestone in your agentic coding journey with specialized Review and Documentation agents. Learn the crucial difference between testing and reviewing your agent’s work.

ZTE: The Secret of Agentic Engineering

Understand the North Star of Agentic Coding where your codebase ships itself. Progress from in loop, to out loop, to ZTE.

The Agentic Layer

Learn the one meta-tactic to rule them all. The single idea you need to become irreplaceable in phase 2 of the Generative AI age.

Elite Context Engineering

A focused agent is a performant agent. The context window is your agent’s most precious resource – ephemeral, limited, and critical to success. Master context engineering through the R&D Framework.

Agentic Prompt Engineering

The prompt is the fundamental unit of engineering in the age of agents. Every prompt you create becomes a force multiplier – one well-crafted prompt can generate tens to hundreds of hours of productive work.

Building Domain-Specific Agents

Create specialized agents tailored for specific domains and use cases. Learn to build agents that understand your business logic, domain constraints, and specialized workflows for maximum effectiveness.

Multi-Agent Orchestration: One Agent To Rule Them All

Scale your agentic engineering with the one agent to rule them all: The Orchestrator Agent. Command fleets of specialized agents through a single interface with CRUD operations and real-time observability. Get ahead of the next paradigm in Agentic Coding.

Agent Experts: Finally, Agents That Actually Learn

The massive problem with agents is they forget – and that means they don’t learn. Agent Experts solve this with a three-step workflow: Act, Learn, Reuse.

The Codebase Singularity

Combine the big ideas from Tactical Agentic Coding and Agentic Horizon and learn to Build Agentic Layers that accelerate you toward ONE Singular Moment – The Codebase Singularity.

Agentic Horizon

INDY DEV DAN IS BACK FOR PHASE 2

Principled AI Coding

. If you’ve watched one of my videos, or trusted me to deliver in a course – I just want to say thank you. Your feedback, support, and success stories fuel my work and inspires the next engineer to join the journey and unlock their potential. Now, in Phase 2, we’re going further beyond with Tactical Agentic Coding.