Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman Agentic Workflows with Don Syme
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Mar 5, 2026 Don Syme, creator of F# and GitHub engineer working on agentic workflows. He discusses tools that plan and iterate across codebases. They cover agents proposing repo fixes, continuous AI alongside CI/CD, and how to set goals and guardrails for safe automation.
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Agentic Tools Are Powerful But Engineering Principles Still Matter
- Modern coding agents give developers wizard-like power to generate software rapidly.
- Don Syme warns we must preserve engineering rigor like types, testing, and performance guarantees even as AI speeds creation.
Let Maintainers Define Automation Goals And Guardrails
- Give repository maintainers control over what automations run and which goals agents pursue.
- Configure feedback loops and bring production telemetry into continuous AI to enable safe, goal-driven automation.
Continuous AI Joins CI And CD As An SDLC Pillar
- Continuous AI is a new SDLC pillar alongside CI and CD supporting ambiguity loops like docs, triage, and simplification.
- These ambiguity loops require human review and explicit judgments to avoid unsafe or incorrect changes.