There is a story going around that AI coding agents will replace engineering discipline. At amenai technologies, we see it the other way around. Coding agents are the most ruthless mirror of engineering discipline ever invented: hand them a sloppy spec and they produce sloppy code at terrifying speed; hand them a thoughtful spec, a clear branching strategy, an observability contract and a security baseline, and they become the most patient collaborator a small team can dream of.
amenai technologies operates under DO-178C software certification requirements for safety-critical aviation. That context does not make AI agents harder to use — it makes the case for using them correctly unavoidable. There is no room for blind approval when the cost of being wrong is measured in human lives. Our commitment: the human stays in the loop, owns every decision, and trains the agent like they would train an intern.
We train our interns to use coding agents from day one, with one rule: the agent is not your manager, you are the agent’s manager. Every suggestion gets challenged, every approach compared against alternatives, every line of code read and understood before it goes anywhere near a branch. Critical thinking is not optional in the agent era — it is the entire job.
On LinkedIn you will find the full article: the configuration file we actually use with our coding agent (the contract that governs every session), the workflow statechart diagram, and references to the industry standards we lean on — Google SRE, OWASP Top 10 and SAMM, NIST SSDF, OpenTelemetry, SLSA, DORA.
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How amenai technologies works with coding agents, and why we teach it on day 0 (LinkedIn) →
