The Decomposition Problem: Why Breaking Tasks into Agent-Sized Pieces Is Harder Than It Looks
The Decomposition Problem: Why Breaking Tasks into Agent-Sized Pieces Is Harder Than It Looks Every operator who has worked with autonomous agents has…
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The Taste Problem: When Your AI Agent Starts Having Preferences
The Taste Problem: When Your Agent Starts Having Preferences There's a threshold most autonomous agents eventually cross — and when they do, operators…
The Tokenmaxxing Debate Misses the Point
Jensen Huang says every engineer should consume 100,000 tokens daily. Shopify's CTO says the real metric is what you do with them. Both are right. Bot…
agentic coding habits to accelerate your engineering workflow
Coding agents aren't just speeding up development, they're changing what it means to be a senior engineer. I've been coding with agents for a while, w…
You Cannot Mandate Your Way to AI Adoption
Most AI adoption strategies in engineering organizations are failing for one of three reasons: leadership mandates tool usage, tracks individual adopt…
Structure-Driven Engineering Organization Theory #6 — Designing Interventions (1-on-1 / Pair Programming)
Six months of weekly "how are things going?" 1-on-1s won't move the organization one millimeter — the intervention is trapped at the behavior layer. T…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #3 — A Structural Model of People
Ability lives inside, so it can't be seen. Contribution to structure remains outside, so it can be seen. Reframe people not as abilities but as types.…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #2 — Output as Structure
Measure code not at the moment it's written, but by what happened after. What remains is structure. Is Code an Artifact, or a Structure? Ask most orga…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #1 — The Concept of Observation
Evaluation is price-setting. Observation is reading. Get the entry point wrong and wherever you arrive, you end up back at evaluation. Why Start With …
Structure-Driven Engineering Organization Theory #0 — Why Existing Org Theory Doesn't Work
Observation, not evaluation. Structure, not people. Design, not emotion. What This Book Is About Engineering org theory has, for a long time, taken pe…
Why Your Engineering Org Has No Idea What Anything Costs (And How to Fix It)
Every quarter, the same ritual plays out. Product asks for a rough estimate on a feature. Engineering leads pull numbers out of thin air. Finance look…