How to Balance Speed, Quality, and Mental Overhead in Agentic Engineering

In this video we explore approaches to agentic engineering so you can ship fast without significant hits to quality or mental overhead - and in some cases improvements!

Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-06_balancing-speed-quality-overhead-agentic-engineering

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro
01:35 - Tradeoffs - Speed, Quality, and Mental Overhead
14:05 - How I think about coding with agents
22:00 - How I run agentic engineering loops
30:00 - Results of agentic engineering

Links:

- How I think about writing quality code fast with AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvqHO1PRPV4
- I Built an AI Orchestrator and Ran It Overnight - Here's What Happened - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9lf0-EZibA
- What I built at Recurse Center - a 12 week programming retreat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GskaIVV04

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

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