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Published by martinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler) (T1 source). The original is at https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-05-14.html.

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Martin Fowler's notes from a Mechanical Orchard retreat on agentic programming, highlighting a 70K-line Rust behavioral clone of the GNU Cobol compiler built in 3 days using LLMs, and an 'Interrogatory LLM' pattern where the model interviews a human expert to verify specification correctness.

Firsthand retreat observations surface the 'Interrogatory LLM' spec-validation pattern and a concrete LLM code-porting data point rarely reported in detail elsewhere.

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