Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

Welcome to Agentic Engineering, Part II

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Matt McDonagh
May 06, 2026
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This is a part 2 of a multi-part series on Agentic Engineering. Our family office has been building with AI and investing in it for the last 3 years, this series shares our experience.

Theory without execution is a hallucination.

In Part I, you played the game of simulating an agent. You manually acted as the actuator. Now you must build the actual machine.

Most developers drown in bloated frameworks. They string together fragile abstractions and call it artificial intelligence. They build brittle toys.

You are going to build an engine of leverage. But you are going to start slow!

The industry is infected with a massive misconception. Developers believe they need thousand line libraries to manage a simple API call. They surrender control to the framework. They lose visibility into the execution loop. When the system breaks, they have absolutely no idea why.

You will not make this mistake. You will use Google’s Agent Development Kit. The ADK is not a bloated abstraction layer. It is a prec…

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