Agentic Coding with Discipline and Skill: Practical Techniques and Tips

This talk distills hard-won lessons from spending hundreds of millions of tokens building production applications with Claude Code and other agentic coding tools. I'll demonstrate five critical techniques that have emerged from real-world practice: using agents for technical research when starting from zero knowledge, breaking complex features into agent-digestible tasks, letting agents complete their own build-test-fix cycles, managing context effectively across long conversations, and collaborative debugging. Beyond these core techniques, I'll share how agentic coding has fundamentally changed my development practice - making me braver when diving into unfamiliar codebases and enabling rapid creation of one-off scripts and tools that would have been impractical to build manually. The new 10,000 hour rule in the world of agentic coding is the "billion token rule". Let's get started with the first few millions.