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Notes on AI-native platforms, regulated markets, scaling engineering orgs, and operational reliability.
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- Altdown: RSS for agents* New Reader mode for agents, made by the publisher. AI-native
- Plan before you prompt How to steer coding agents with four small documents (architecture, ADR, plan, tasks) so your team makes the design decisions instead of the agent. AI-native
- Guardrails for AI-generated code A four-layer guardrails model for AI-generated code (scope, structural, behavioral, human verification), plus notes on a shrinking architectural half-life. AI-native · Reliability
- Death to Scrum? If the process of software development is changing this dramatically, what happens to Scrum? Scaling orgs · AI-native
- The New SDLC AI is compressing the development cycle and changing how product, engineering, design, QA, and security teams operate. AI-native · Scaling orgs
- From Reading Changelogs to Finding Zero-Days: LLMs and the Future of AppSec The old model of security patches cannot survive contact with systems that operate at machine speed. AI-native · Regulated
- Spec First, Then Code LLMs have no context. You have to give it to them. AI-native
- Something Has Changed With AI Coding For most of the past year my view on AI coding tools was old-fashioned. Something has changed. AI-native
- OAuth Is Not Enough: Authorization Challenges for Autonomous AI Agents OAuth gives us delegated access, but by itself it can't ensure that autonomous agents stay inside the guardrails. AI-native · Regulated
- Managing by Metrics How to select, use, and think about engineering metrics. The difference between good metrics and the ones that just make you feel good. Scaling orgs · Reliability
- Engineering Culture and Principles Culture is the default way a team operates when no one is watching. Scaling orgs
- Giving Negative Feedback Most managers either put off negative feedback or reach for the sandwich method. Scaling orgs
- Parsing Text Files in Shell I spent years reaching for awk before landing on something simpler, built right into how the shell reads data. Reliability
- 9 Years of Scrum, and All I Got Is a Lousy T-shirt (Sizing) Nine years of scrum, with varying degrees of rigor. Scaling orgs
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