I learned this building an agent pipeline. An engineer agent would implement a feature, then a reviewer agent was supposed to check the work. More often than not, the review got skipped. So I added a line to the agent instructions: "All changes must be reviewed. Do not skip

Claude Code shipped a Teams feature. Give a group of specialised agents a task and let them tackle it together. An orchestrator coordinates, and sub-agents execute. On paper, this is the future of autonomous software development. In practice, it breaks down fast. I built a development pipeline with it. An

We used to put a lot of effort into even the smallest code change. Coming back to it afterwards was expensive. Coding is no longer the limiting factor, human time is. Code reviews are where this plays out every day. They make sure the solution is sound, shared amongst the

The first reaction most leaders have to AI is to plan. Figure out a strategy first, then act. The problem is that the tools and the landscape are changing so fast that by the time you've decided on an approach, it's already outdated. Companies have meetings

We realised that vibe coding gave us quick results, but these were unmaintainable over time. So we swung to the other extreme: stepping through every line the agent delivers. Good quality, but you become the bottleneck. The next step is building the harness: the constraints, skills, hooks, and conventions that

A founder of a growing startup told me this recently. They're under pressure from investors to reach a certain ARR, but the team can't keep up with the feature requests. The fast pace of development has turned the product into a complex system. Jumping on the

The AI wave has split software development into two speeds. On one side are developers running multiple Claude Code instances in parallel, experimenting with voice interfaces, and figuring things out as they go. Their workflows might be held together with duct tape, but they're building a lead that

In 2010, hosting was a solved problem. You no longer needed to set up servers. A cloud account, and you were good to go. AWS, Azure, and GCP kept growing, and suddenly, services could be provisioned with a single click. Free credits were handed out to anyone who asked. Then

Throughout software development history, we have kept trying to hide complexity behind black boxes. JavaScript frameworks abstracted away how browsers render pages. WYSIWYG editors promised early on that you would never have to touch HTML. Layer after layer of abstractions was put in place to hide what is actually happening