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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How Hard Should You Review This? Ask What It Touches.
When a pull request shows up and an agent helped write it, the first question a lot of reviewers ask is "did an agent write this?" I get why. We bui…
Your pull request review time is mostly waiting and rework
Time to merge is the number teams quote when they say AI review sped things up. It bundles at least three separate costs, and reading the diff is on…
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…
Where Trust in Automated Review Actually Comes From
There's a tempting fix for the moment your team stops trusting its AI code review...add a second AI to check the first one. I get why. We do the sam…
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…
The Timezone Gap Isn't a Bug, It's a Forcing Function
Here's a hard truth most engineering leaders don't say out loud: your team's speed depends way too much on people being in the same room at the same…
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…
The Warning That Took My Site Down Was in the Log the Whole Time
A few weeks ago, I mistakenly took my own site down for about thirty minutes. I was wiring up a queue-based pipeline for GitHub webhooks. That needs…
Hiring Your First Developer: 5 Questions That Filter Out 80%
Hiring your first developer is the most expensive decision a non-technical founder makes blind. Not because the salary is large — because you have n…
Merge Standards That Actually Get Followed
When a PR on my team crosses 500 changes, it gets the same response every time: this one's too big...let's break it down. I don't enjoy being the li…
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…