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Writing
Longer-form writing on agentic engineering, production, and what two decades of infrastructure work teaches about the AI era.
Technical experiments and benchmarks live separately, under research.
Recent essays
| Title | Published |
|---|---|
| Use AI to Do What You Already Do, Better | August 22, 2026 |
| Agentic Engineering: Protect Your Production Environment | August 11, 2026 |
| The 16%: Why AI Adoption in Mexico Is Stalling Right Where the Real Work Begins | August 8, 2026 |
| The Art We Let Go: A Letter to Software Engineers from the Systems Administration Era | January 22, 2026 |
| From Coder to Orchestrator: Navigating the Agentic Revolution in Enterprise IT | January 6, 2026 |
| From Manual Entry to Orchestration: The New Developer Paradigm | December 20, 2025 |
Themes
- From coder to orchestrator — what the job actually becomes when agents write the first draft.
- Protecting production — the stabilization discipline: audits, guardrails, observability.
- The systems-administration sensibility — what the old production instinct still gets right about AI.
- AI adoption where the real work begins — field notes, including from the Mexican market.
Elsewhere
Video walk-throughs and agentic engineering material: YouTube — @marcuspatmanagentics. The full professional archive (work history, certifications, portfolio): marcuspatman.space.
Talk it through with someone who runs this stack on his own systems every day.