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Notes & thoughts about engineering, leadership, platform systems, and trustworthy AI-assisted delivery.
AI Is Not Extra Headcount
Section titled “AI Is Not Extra Headcount”AI does not add a fixed amount of engineering capacity. This post looks at the evidence behind AI as a multiplier and the conditions that turn faster output into better software.
The AI agents were working in parallel. I wasn’t.
Section titled “The AI agents were working in parallel. I wasn’t.”Running one AI agent in each repository can make the developer responsible for coordinating a small distributed system. This post explains how that problem led to RepoChord and a Saga-style workflow for multi-repository Codex development.
It’s Hard to Learn a Tool You Think Might Replace You
Section titled “It’s Hard to Learn a Tool You Think Might Replace You”My teams were using AI without learning much about it while also worrying that it might replace them. This post is about giving team members enough understanding to experiment with AI and trust their own judgment around it.