Writing

• Agent-first starts with getting your logic out of the UI

  Why we're pulling a decade of business logic out of our analytics UI, and the one call I'd make again.

• Code is cheap now. Glue isn't.

  When agents write the code, the bottleneck moves to everything around it. How I grow engineers into owners through that work.

• Our first Hack Week produced great demos. Almost none shipped as built.

  Fewer than 5% of the first Hack Week shipped. What I changed for the second, and what I can and can’t claim about the result.

• Your agent forgets every review comment you leave

  The nits belong in lints, tests and the agent’s rules, so people can review what only people can judge.

• From Release All-Nighters to Continuous Integration: A True Story

  How a team went from dreaded two-month releases to deploying with the push of a button.