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Golden Paths for Machines
A golden path built for humans is a recommendation. A golden path built for a machine has to be an interface.
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Agentic Engineering
Agentic software development, tested in the real mess of engineering work.
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Internal Platforms need product managers, not priests
A platform team that rules by doctrine gets compliance. A platform team that runs like a product gets adoption. Only one of those is worth anything.
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The death of vibe coding will be boring
The next phase of AI-assisted engineering will not be more magical. It will be more explicit.
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Agentic engineering
Agentic engineering is not the art of asking AI to do more. It is the discipline of making work explicit enough that machines can safely help with it.
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AI development & Engineering clarity
A few years ago, most engineering organizations were constrained by the same thing: writing code was expensive. Not just in budget terms. Expensive in attention. In coordination. In
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Alfred does its homework before writing a line of code
There’s a particular kind of frustration engineers know well: you pick up a Jira ticket and the description reads something like “Fix the thing from the meeting.” No context. No requirements/details.
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I Let an AI Agent Read My Jira Tickets Before Reviewing PRs
How GitHub Agentic Workflows + MCP turned my pull request reviews from context-switching nightmares into fully-loaded briefings