

Senior engineer at re:cinq and the builder of Wave, our software-factory tooling. Michael co-delivered the Odevo training programme and has lectured in computer science at HdM and DHBW Stuttgart since 2021. He works hands-on with agentic coding across client projects.
6 Articles • Engineering • AI • agentic coding

When an agent reads an issue, PR, or comment, it treats that text as instructions. That makes the spec the attack surface for injection.

AI coding agents can fabricate variables and silently remove security checks. The capability is real, validation and governance lag behind.

Wave uses deterministic YAML pipelines with contract-based handoffs so quality checks run every time, instead of hoping the model remembers.

We built a side-by-side model comparison tool for the CFO agent before we had an evals pipeline, and what qualitative comparison taught us.

Building the re:cinq CFO agent with two engineers in parallel exposed spec workflow problems we had not anticipated, and what we changed.

Your 200K context window is not 200K of usable space. Here is what actually fills it, where the autocompact cliff sits, and how to stay below it.

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