Sammy AgeilNotes on engineering leadership, platform systems, and building software with AI.https://sammyageil.com/Code Review Isn't Dying. It's Changing Hands.https://sammyageil.com/writing/code-review-is-changing-hands/https://sammyageil.com/writing/code-review-is-changing-hands/When code gets cheap to produce, checking it becomes the expensive part, and the important one.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Changed the Cost of Code, Not the Cost of Softwarehttps://sammyageil.com/writing/cost-of-code-not-cost-of-software/https://sammyageil.com/writing/cost-of-code-not-cost-of-software/Fifty years of software economics in one equation, and what AI does to each part of it.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Multiplies What You Bringhttps://sammyageil.com/writing/ai-multiplies-what-you-bring/https://sammyageil.com/writing/ai-multiplies-what-you-bring/AI scales your skills, judgment and domain knowledge, and it scales your gaps just as fast.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Is Not Extra Headcounthttps://sammyageil.com/writing/ai-is-not-extra-headcount/https://sammyageil.com/writing/ai-is-not-extra-headcount/AI multiplies the team and delivery system around it, producing gains only when the work, feedback, and judgment support it.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTFaster Code Won't Fix a Slow Pipelinehttps://sammyageil.com/writing/faster-code-wont-fix-a-slow-pipeline/https://sammyageil.com/writing/faster-code-wont-fix-a-slow-pipeline/AI speeds up one stage of delivery. The teams that benefit are the ones that rebuild the rest around it.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat Are AI Tokens, and Why Do They Cost So Much?https://sammyageil.com/writing/what-are-ai-tokens/https://sammyageil.com/writing/what-are-ai-tokens/Where your AI tokens go, why the bills keep growing? Eight habits to cost without degrading models' answers.Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe AI agents were working in parallel. I wasn’t.https://sammyageil.com/writing/ai-agents-working-in-parallel/https://sammyageil.com/writing/ai-agents-working-in-parallel/A Saga-style approach to coordinating Codex agents across multiple repositories without making the developer track every session.Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTIt’s Hard to Learn a Tool You Think Might Replace Youhttps://sammyageil.com/writing/what-building-kodacode-taught-me-about-ai-adoption/https://sammyageil.com/writing/what-building-kodacode-taught-me-about-ai-adoption/How understanding context and tools helped my teams experiment with AI and trust their own judgment around it.Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT