Agent-native work
How AI agents change deployment, operations, product judgment, and the shape of engineering teams.
Analysis Leads, Building Never Stops: The Post-Launch Loop for AI Agents
Once an AI agent is in production, the center of gravity shifts. Most teams start by building — prompts, tools, retrieval — and expect to keep building. A...
Agency = Mandate × Harness × Taste: A Method, Not a Mood
When coding gets cheap, the advice "be more ambitious, have more agency" starts showing up everywhere. It's a mood, not a method. Here's the method. The...
What Is a Forward-Deployed Engineer? The Enterprise AI Delivery Model, Explained
A forward-deployed engineer, or FDE, is an engineer the AI vendor sends into your company to get their agent working against your real data and your real...
Does TDD Still Matter With AI Coding Agents? Yes — But Not How You Think
The short answer Test-driven development is more useful in the age of AI coding agents than it was before. But almost everyone gives the wrong reason. The...
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