Notes on building, and leading

Sammy Ageil

Writing

  1. i.Code Review Isn't Dying. It's Changing Hands.When code gets cheap to produce, checking it becomes the expensive part, and the important one.
  2. ii.AI Changed the Cost of Code, Not the Cost of SoftwareFifty years of software economics in one equation, and what AI does to each part of it.
  3. iii.AI Multiplies What You BringAI scales your skills, judgment and domain knowledge, and it scales your gaps just as fast.
  4. iv.AI Is Not Extra HeadcountAI multiplies the team and delivery system around it, producing gains only when the work, feedback, and judgment support it.
  5. v.Faster Code Won't Fix a Slow PipelineAI speeds up one stage of delivery. The teams that benefit are the ones that rebuild the rest around it.
  6. vi.What Are AI Tokens, and Why Do They Cost So Much?Where your AI tokens go, why the bills keep growing? Eight habits to cost without degrading models' answers.
  7. vii.The AI agents were working in parallel. I wasn’t.A Saga-style approach to coordinating Codex agents across multiple repositories without making the developer track every session.
  8. viii.It’s Hard to Learn a Tool You Think Might Replace YouHow understanding context and tools helped my teams experiment with AI and trust their own judgment around it.

Projects

CiteLoomResearch over your own documents, with every answer tied to evidence you can inspect.RepoChordIsolated agents per repository, results brought back for review, integration kept human.KodaCodeA new generation of Agentic Orchestration app.CrewAI DevelopmentAgent experiments in Docker, with the container as an isolation boundary.

About

Twenty years, from writing the code to leading engineering organizations of more than eighty people, mostly modernizing platforms the business couldn’t afford to see go down.

I never stopped writing the code: today I’m co-founder and CTO of LoopsRelay, where we help clients get AI out of the demo and into production, and build KodaCode, our agentic orchestration app.

  1. 2025 – PresentCo-founder & CTOLoopsRelay
  2. 2021 – 2026Director, Platform Engineering · Director, Technology EngineeringMCAP
  3. 2015 – 2021Senior Manager, Applications DevelopmentFCT
  4. 2014 – 2015Senior Software Development ManagerMED e-care Healthcare Solutions
  5. 2010 – 2014Software Development ManagerWireless Ronin Technologies
  6. 2007 – 2010Solution ArchitectHewlett Packard Enterprise