Steve Yegge on Agentic Coding, Beads, and the Future of AI Workflows

Steve Yegge, who until earlier this week was Head of Engineering at Sourcegraph (makers of Amp) and is a longtime Amazon and Google engineer, joins us to share his advanced workflows, the tools he depends on, and his approach to building with agentic coding in real projects. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve probably already seen Beads, the lightweight memory system he released that has recently exploded in the agentic coding community.

What’s Inside

• The 85 percent rule for agent-written code
• How to guide agents like a team lead
• The Land the Plane session shutdown protocol
• Beads: a Git-backed memory layer for structured work
• Why multimodal debugging is becoming essential

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