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Antony Marcano

@antonymarcano.bsky.social
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Taming AI Coding Agents, one test at a time... Advocate of software artisanship, including XP, TDD, and more.

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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Are you over specifying your agent skills, and spending more tokens than you need? antonymarcano.substack.com/p/corrective...
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Corrective vs Prescriptive Agent Skills — Don’t Teach It What It Already Knows
When the model gets most of it right, all we need to tell it is what it got wrong.
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Could your next Claude Code skill be a diagram? Not a diagram just describing the skill — a diagram that is the skill, executed like code. The answer is YES. Once you've tried it, you may not want to go back. antonymarcano.substack.com/p/claude-cod... #claudecode #ai #aiaugmented #claudeskills
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Claude Code Skills as Executable UML
Could your next Claude Code skill be a diagram?
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Your Coding Agents Just Broke – Yet Nothing in Your Repo Changed?! This has just made another compelling case for a test-driven approach to your CLAUDE/SKILL.md changes when using coding agents at scale... Read on → open.substack.com/pub/antonyma... #aicoding #aiaugmented #claudecode
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Your Coding Agents Just Broke – Yet Nothing In Your Repo Changed
And there was nothing obvious that told you why
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Here’s the latest on the evolution of Stagentic-AI’s genesis project… Enabling Test-Driven Development of Claude Skills… open.substack.com/pub/antonyma... Now, every test-step is carried out by a separate sub-agent. Given – Haiku When – Opus (agent under test) Then – Sonnet Finally – Haiku Enjoy…
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Test-Driven Claude Skill Development Updated
Every test step is carried out by an independent subagent.
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Just for fun, I pointed NotebookLM's AI Podcast Hosts at my latest article "Taming Claude Code, One Agentic-Test at a Time"... It's metaphors, and insights – especially at the end – were a genuine surprise! Listen here (article linked in shownotes) open.substack.com/pub/antonyma...
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AI Debates... NotebookLM hosts discuss Test-Driven Agentic Behaviours
Another NotebookLM powered podcast debate, this time about my article “Taming Claude Code, One Agentic Test at a Time”.
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I was stuck in a “prompt and pray” loop, changing CLAUDE-md and SKILL-md files. Fix one behaviour, break another without even knowing. Until I realised this new problem… has an old solution. "Taming Claude Code,—One Agentic Test at a Time" open.substack.com/pub/antonyma... #claudecode #vibecoding
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Taming Claude Code, One Agentic-Test at a Time
Is This The Future of Prompt and Agent Engineering?
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Better late than never... antonymarcano.substack.com
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Antony Marcano | Substack
Taming rogue AI coding agents, one automated test at a time... while helping companies achieve the “Elite” benchmark in DORA software delivery performance, with or without AI. Click to read Antony Mar...
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
When people say "guardrails", they really mean "guidance"... But there are true guardrails available. Combine both with gateways and not only do you have greater control over your coding agent, you improve token efficiency... → ideas.riverglide.com/what-people-... #AIcoding #agenticcoding
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What We All Got Wrong About Guardrails
When a coding agent does something it shouldn’t, people often say we need better guardrails. But what do they mean? What I often see…
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What if you could develop your SKILL . md files in a test-driven way, just like your code? That was the question I asked myself, and the result was Test-Driven Agentic Behaviours (TDAB)... Let me show you → youtu.be/i3g9ZXiaqh0 (Re-uploaded) #ai #aiaugmentedcoding #aiassistedcoding #claudecode
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Test-Driven Development of Claude Code Skills | Test-Driven Agentic Behaviours #TDAB
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What if you could develop your SKILL . md files in a test-driven way, just like your code? That was the question I asked myself, and the result was Test-Driven Agentic Behaviours (TDAB)... Let me show you → youtu.be/uisjVdEvrCY #ai #aiaugmentedcoding #aiassistedcoding #claudecode
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Test-Driven Development of Claude Code Skills | Test-Driven Agentic Behaviours #TDAB
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If the collective comprehension and articulation of a concept is flawed, and our individual comprehension is flawed, then we cannot expect AI to be any less flawed than the material it has to work with. This seems to be at the heart of much of the debate in AI augmented coding.
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Mutation testing is a method that's becoming increasingly important with AI-augmented coding. Without it, we could risk future bugs in our agent-written code, even if what we release today seems to work. Read on: ideas.riverglide.com/mutants-in-t...
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Mutants in the Machine: The AI Illusion of Test-Driven Code
Mutation testing is a method that’s becoming increasingly important with AI-augmented coding. Without it, we could risk future bugs in our…
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Edward Wong @arkangelofkaos.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Thanks to everyone that joined us for @xtclondon.bsky.social on Tuesday! Loved all the discussion sessions on enjoying programming, effectiveness of AI, security and "best vibe engineering practices" 💪 Looking forward to future meetups: www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I recently joined Jack Hannah for a chat on @tuple's "Distributed" podcast. We talk about what distinguishes teams at the 'Elite' benchmark of DORA's Software Delivery Performance metrics, how AI is reshaping software delivery and more. Watch here: youtu.be/y7KZd6x7-lo (55mins)
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Why faster coding doesn’t mean faster delivery
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Is Your AI-assisted Coding Strategy Quietly Backfiring In 2026? Most AI-assisted coding strategies lean on one simple assumption: If developers can write code faster, delivery will be faster too. The latest DORA research suggests that assumption is wrong, more often than not. youtu.be/dQ1apxgvOa0
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Is Your AI assisted Coding Strategy Quietly Backfiring?
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Product managers were frustrated by how long even small features took to release". By making it possible to slice their backlog differently an additional £2.6M in revenue was found, representing "repeated revenue they were likely missing out on for some time". ideas.riverglide.com/your-product...
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The Hidden Costs in Your Product Backlog
Your product backlog could be encouraging teams to structure their work in ways that carry measurable costs. For one company, this would…
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I need to be more active here 🤔
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Great catching up with @antonymarcano.bsky.social at The Rake in Borough Market tonight. Great conversation and some spiffy guest ales. Opinion was divided on the lemony one.
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Think about it...
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Why the story of the viral skateboard-to-car, agile in a nutshell, image needs an unhappy ending... You’ve probably seen Henrik Kniberg's skateboard-to-car sketch a thousand times. But, not with this version of the story behind it... youtu.be/UR4Cq42BtbU #agile #agilesoftwaredevelopment
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What Did This Viral Agile Diagram’s Story Miss Out?
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I've been living over on LinkedIn all this time and forgot that BlueSky was a thing... Going to see what it's like here... And if anyone is listening.
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It feels odd to me when people say they code solo by default, and only pair when it makes sense. My default is to pair, and only code solo when that makes sense... which is generally exploring, when it's about discovery of new ways rather than executing on one of them. But only for short periods.
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Antony Marcano @antonymarcano.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hello! Late to the party... But better late than never.
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