--- title: Outcome Engineering | daily.dev description: A manifesto by Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Onebrief, co-creator of Second Life) proposing 'Outcome Engineering' (o16g) — a philosophy for the agentic AI era that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/enhqyoyib twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Outcome Engineering | daily.dev og:description: A manifesto by Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Onebrief, co-creator of Second Life) proposing 'Outcome Engineering' (o16g) — a philosophy for the agentic AI era that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/enhqyoyib og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/enHqyOYiB.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Outcome Engineering **[Agentic Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/agentic)** · [@denisb0](https://daily.dev/denisb0) · 27 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A manifesto by Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Onebrief, co-creator of Second Life) proposing 'Outcome Engineering' (o16g) — a philosophy for the agentic AI era that reframes software engineering around outcomes, impact, and cost rather than code, time, and backlog. The 16 principles cover human intent, verified results, multi-agent coordination, context-rich environments, risk management, and continuous improvement, arguing that AI agents free engineers from implementation constraints so they can focus on creation and measurable outcomes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@daniel8000** · 2 upvotes > Ideas souds great. But implementation of ideas is always hard and dissapointing. **@giorgishalvashvili** · 2 upvotes > overengineered website with so many distracting animations **@khauma** · 1 upvotes > Beautiful site, great manifesto. I will definitely check back and read the articles. **@ricktonoli** · 1 upvotes > This is awesome, I keep telling people I work with your job is not to write code but to produce value. This just solidifies that concept and calls it outcome based engineering. 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