# Agentic-Engineering

## Pages

- [Synthesized, Not Engineered](https://aeshift.com/posts/2026-03-03-synthesized-not-engineered/index.md): A research team replaced a database query engine with an LLM that writes bespoke C++ for every query. It beat DuckDB. The implications go well beyond databases.

- [A TeX Chess Engine Isn't a Trick; It's What Agents Do Under Constraint](https://aeshift.com/posts/2026-02-28-coding-agents-wrote-a-chess-engine-in-pure-tex/index.md): A coding agent built a chess engine in pure TeX by inventing a virtual machine. The practitioner lesson isn't the stunt. It's what happens when agents redesign your substrate.