MIT Missing Semester Adds Agentic Coding to Official CS Curriculum: Feedback Loops, Worktree Parallelism, and Anti-Patterns

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MIT's Missing Semester course (2026 edition) now includes an Agentic Coding lecture covering practical agent workflows: iterative feedback loops where agents run failing checks and iterate autonomously, test-driven development with agents (write tests first, audit, then implement), git worktree parallelism for running multiple agent instances simultaneously, MCP integration for connecting agents to external systems, and a clear warning against yolo mode in production. The course recommends Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Opencode as primary tools. This is the first time a major CS curriculum includes agentic coding as required material.