Learning from pstack: Build Your Own Reliable Coding Agent Stack

This is the written version of my talk at the TypeScript Meetup Munich. Last year I gave an AI talk at the same meetup. Since then the models and tools got a lot better. So the question I wanted to answer was simple: how much better did our workflow get? My answer comes from studying one plugin, pstack. You don’t have to adopt it. But it shows what a reliable agent workflow needs, and you can copy the most valuable part into your own project today. The perfect AI coding workflow Meet Carl. Carl is the developer, the designer and the business analyst. He has an idea, presses a button, and a finished feature comes out. That’s the dream. In practice, the agent says “done”, you open the app, and the feature doesn’t work. That gap is what this post is about. So part of our job now is building a workflow we can trust. What does that workflow need? Three foundations for trusted agent work Verification. The agent runs the real app end to end. For a shop, the agent browses, adds to the cart…