Agentic Engineering — Choosing the Right Level of Guidance

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most engineers on our team are using AI agents now. The question isn’t whether to use them — it’s how. And most people get this wrong.

There’s a spectrum from full autonomy (“build me this”) to tight step-by-step direction (“use this exact pattern, handle this edge case, call this function”). Most engineers default to one mode and stay there. The ones producing the best work move fluidly along the spectrum based on context.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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I’m Patrik Potocki, CTO at Fast Track — an iGaming player engagement platform trusted by some of the industry’s biggest operators.

I lead the engineering organization and own the technical direction of our platform: architecture, infrastructure, developer experience, and delivery.

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Fast Track — CTO (current)
Led the complete infrastructure redesign: migrated from Rackspace to AWS, rewrote core services from PHP to Go, introduced Kubernetes as the orchestration layer. Previously Tech Lead.

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Agentic Engineering — Choosing the Right Level of Guidance

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