The SpecSense Journal

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Cross-discipline10 August 2026 · 8 min read

What 'Agentic AI for Engineering' Actually Means — And What It Doesn't

The term 'agentic AI' has been stretched to mean anything from a chatbot that calls one API to a fully autonomous system executing multi-step plans without supervision. In engineering document review, that ambiguity is not marketing hygiene — it is a liability. This article defines what agentic AI can and cannot do inside a defensible review workflow, and where SpecSense draws the boundary between AI autonomy and Chartered Engineer sign-off.

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Two engineering document overlays floating in dark space — the first with red critique marks, the second refined and glowing cyan around defensible findings, illustrating the two-pass review architecture.

Cross-discipline7 August 2026 · 9 min

The Two-Pass Critique: How SpecSense Reviews Survive a Client Audit

Single-pass LLM reviews fail audit. The two-pass critique architecture removes hallucinated code citations, calibrates severity, and produces engineering findings a Chartered Engineer can sign off on.

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