30% More Code, Zero More Shipped Work: Where the Capacity Actually Went
A Harvard study of 718 firms found that coding agents produced 30% more lines of code and no detectable increase in finished work. Most coverage sto…
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The Fastest Way to Make Software Slow: Rethinking Rapid Application Development
What Rapid Application Development taught me about speed, trade-offs, classic mistakes, and getting troubled projects back under control. Rapid…
Engineering Reliability into AI Agent Code Generation. Part III
Part III — Teams of Agents, a Post-Mortem, and the Frontier Part I defined eight failure modes of agent code generation (P1–P8) and drew the archite…
Pair Programming Earned a Lighter Code Review. AI Hasn't.
Is writing code with an agent the same thing as pair programming? That question has been going around lately, and there's a practical consequence si…
From Supervised to Independent: A Six-Month Framework for Mentoring Engineers
This is about the specific, repeatable mechanics of taking a junior engineer and moving them in roughly six months from "needs review on every task"…
The Planning Problem: Why Smart Engineers Are Stuck Solving Trivial AI Tasks
The Planning Problem: Why Smart Engineers Are Stuck Solving Trivial AI Tasks Your engineers can delegate to AI. They can assess what comes back. The…