agents
179 essays tagged agents
Aug 3, 2026
Win at One Thing Before You Become a Platform
3 min read
Aug 2, 2026
Where the Agent Runs Is a Product Decision
2 min read
Aug 1, 2026
The Weekly Progress Email Is an Artifact, Not Bureaucracy
2 min read
Jul 31, 2026
You Are Underspending on Tokens, Not Overspending
2 min read
Jul 30, 2026
Synchronous Cloud Development Is the Next Wave
2 min read
Jul 28, 2026
Generation Is Solved. Merging Is Not
2 min read
Jul 27, 2026
Review Needs a Computer, Not a Diff
2 min read
Jul 26, 2026
The Report Is Coming Back
2 min read
Jul 25, 2026
Merging Code Nobody Understands Is the Real Risk
2 min read
Jul 25, 2026
Developers Want Raw Access, Not a Wrapper
2 min read
Jul 24, 2026
Build the Infrastructure, Not the Harness
3 min read
Jul 22, 2026
Facts Rot. Reports Supersede. Build Memory Accordingly
2 min read
Jul 21, 2026
Every CTO Is Asking How to Move Engineering Work to the Cloud
2 min read
Jul 20, 2026
Don't Build the Eleventh CLI
2 min read
Jul 19, 2026
Get the Credentials Off the Laptop
2 min read
Jul 18, 2026
The Cowboy Developer Era Is Ending
2 min read
Jul 17, 2026
The Commit History Outlives the Veterans
2 min read
Jul 16, 2026
Start Agent Work in the Channel, Not the Terminal
3 min read
Jul 16, 2026
Agents Give the Signal Humans Are Too Polite to Send
2 min read
Jul 15, 2026
The Slowest Part of Your Agent Is the Git Clone
2 min read
Jul 14, 2026
The Agent Owner Is a New Job, and It Is Not Engineering
2 min read
Jul 13, 2026
Agent Leverage Needs an Owner
2 min read
Jul 12, 2026
Your Agent Instructions Are Rotting
2 min read
Jul 11, 2026
No Human Should See the PR Until It Has Been Beat Up
2 min read
Jul 10, 2026
Spend Two Tokens Defending Code for Every One You Spend Writing It
2 min read
Jul 9, 2026
The Three Services That Sell an Agent Platform
2 min read
Jul 8, 2026
Stop Re-Deriving the Same Facts
2 min read
Jul 7, 2026
Services Should Prepare Customers for Your Product, Not Compete With It
2 min read
Jul 7, 2026
Software Factories Run on Pre-Prod
2 min read
Jul 6, 2026
Review the Session, Not Just the Diff
2 min read
Jul 5, 2026
Review Is Not a Feature. It Is the Interface to Agent Work
2 min read
Jul 4, 2026
Price for Adoption First, Profit Later
2 min read
Jul 3, 2026
The IDE Is Going Away, and the Cloud Is Where Agents Run
3 min read
Jul 2, 2026
The Real Product Is the Graph, Not the Interface
2 min read
Jul 1, 2026
The Fifth Inning and the First
2 min read
Jun 30, 2026
With AI, Everybody Is an Engineer
2 min read
Jun 28, 2026
Determinism Is a Bandage for a Bad Agent Loop
2 min read
Jun 27, 2026
The Calendar Is a Legacy Orchestration Layer
2 min read
Jun 25, 2026
Give an Agent a Real Computer and It Stops Being a Coding Tool
2 min read
Jun 24, 2026
Investing in the Wrong Part of the Harness Is the Real Mistake
2 min read
Jun 23, 2026
Wrap the Product in Services Until the Buyer Catches Up
2 min read
Jun 22, 2026
A Real VM Is the Primitive for Cloud Coding Agents
2 min read
Jun 21, 2026
Tool Sprawl Is the Hidden Tax on Every Agent You Run
2 min read
Jun 20, 2026
Self-Hosted Is Where the Real Pull Is
2 min read
Jun 19, 2026
The Proof of Concept Ends When Trust Begins
2 min read
Jun 19, 2026
The Reversion to Internal Software Has Started
2 min read
Jun 18, 2026
The Orchestrator Is Where Your Tokens Go to Die
2 min read
Jun 17, 2026
The Operator Should Own the Agent, Not the Developer
2 min read
Jun 16, 2026
The First Agent You Should Ship Is the Operational Discipline Layer
2 min read
Jun 15, 2026
Help Them In-House It, Don't Sell Them Another SaaS
2 min read
Jun 12, 2026
Hire the Engineer Who Wants to Sell
2 min read
Jun 10, 2026
When Building Is Cheap, GTM Is the Only Edge
2 min read
Jun 10, 2026
Kill the MCP, Ship the CLI
2 min read
Jun 9, 2026
The Bot Is the Container. The Agents Are the Work
2 min read
Jun 8, 2026
Amplify the Tools They Already Trust
3 min read
Jun 7, 2026
Ship the Agent Specs as Code, Not as Database Rows
2 min read
Jun 6, 2026
Your Real Competitor Is the Internal Build
2 min read
Jun 5, 2026
Prototype on MCP, Productionize in Code
3 min read
Jun 4, 2026
Your Agent Pipeline Is Missing the Back Edge
2 min read
Jun 2, 2026
The Chaos in Coding Agents Is Our Friend
2 min read
Jun 2, 2026
Everything Was an AWS Wrapper Too
3 min read
Jun 1, 2026
Buy the Integration Until It Breaks
3 min read
May 31, 2026
The Bot Is the Interface. The Agents Are the Units
2 min read
May 30, 2026
Your Agents Will Find the Dirty Data First
3 min read
May 29, 2026
The Single Pane of Glass Is a Custom App, Not a Chat Window
2 min read
May 28, 2026
Own the Compute Layer or Pay Someone Else's Margin Forever
2 min read
May 27, 2026
The Forward-Deployed Engineer Is the Wedge
3 min read
May 26, 2026
Controllability Beats Magic Every Time
4 min read
May 25, 2026
Cloud Dev Environments Are the Unlock for Parallel Agent Work
3 min read
May 24, 2026
The Agent Lab Replaces the Agent Deploy
3 min read
May 24, 2026
Agents Start Broken and That Is the Point
2 min read
May 23, 2026
The Agent as ERP Is Not a Metaphor
2 min read
May 20, 2026
Follow No Goose Absolutely
8 min read
May 18, 2026
The Long Game in Agent Companies
2 min read
May 17, 2026
Provocatypes Over Roadmaps
2 min read
May 16, 2026
Agents in Production: GTM Mesh and the Death of the ERP
2 min read
May 15, 2026
The Human Is No Longer the Integration Layer
2 min read
May 15, 2026
Pluck a Feather From Each Goose
2 min read
May 14, 2026
From Agent to Platform: Why the GTM Is Services-Shaped
2 min read
May 13, 2026
The Zero-Stickiness Problem at the Tool Layer
2 min read
May 12, 2026
The Pilot Is the Product
2 min read
May 11, 2026
The Design Partner Discipline
2 min read
May 10, 2026
Start With the Pain, Not the Platform
2 min read
May 9, 2026
The Real Product Is What Replaces Homegrown
2 min read
May 8, 2026
The Orchestration Bet
2 min read
May 7, 2026
Agents Are About to Break Out of Engineering
3 min read
May 6, 2026
The Agent Harness Problem
2 min read
May 6, 2026
Tech Context Is Tractable. Org Context Is Not
2 min read
May 5, 2026
Inspectable Logic, Not Black Box Magic
2 min read
May 4, 2026
The Framework Cannot Be the Product
2 min read
May 3, 2026
Background Agents Are the Underbuilt Layer
2 min read
May 2, 2026
The Atomic Agent Mesh: Architecture, Build-vs-Buy, and the Review Layer
2 min read
May 1, 2026
Agents Are Software, and Software Needs a Factory
2 min read
Apr 30, 2026
Users Should Iterate on Agents, Not Developers
2 min read
Apr 29, 2026
The Primitives Are the Same Across Roles
3 min read
Apr 28, 2026
The Organizational Context Gap
2 min read
Apr 27, 2026
The ERP Is Dead. The Agent Is Your Operating System Now
2 min read
Apr 27, 2026
The Gap Is Infrastructure, Not Intelligence
2 min read
Apr 26, 2026
Context Engineering Is the Hard Problem
14 min read
Apr 25, 2026
Catch the Buyers Before They Become Builders
2 min read
Apr 24, 2026
The Codebase Is the Territory. The Agent Needs a Map
2 min read
Apr 23, 2026
One Human Will Supervise Hundreds of Agents
2 min read
Apr 22, 2026
The Harness Layer Has No Moat
2 min read
Apr 21, 2026
GTM Mesh: Closing the Gap Between Ad Click and Revenue
2 min read
Apr 20, 2026
Flexibility Is Not Optional for Agent Platforms
3 min read
Apr 19, 2026
What the Build-vs-Buy Data Actually Shows
2 min read
Apr 18, 2026
You Need a Directory of Agents
2 min read
Apr 18, 2026
Skills Are Software, Not Markdown
2 min read
Apr 17, 2026
The Mesh of Specialists Pattern
2 min read
Apr 16, 2026
The Harness Matters as Much as the Model
2 min read
Apr 15, 2026
The Framework Trap
2 min read
Apr 14, 2026
The Forward-Deployed Model Is the Only One That Actually Works
2 min read
Apr 13, 2026
Think Small to Win Big
2 min read
Apr 12, 2026
The Arena of Arenas: Why There Is No Winner-Take-All in Agents
2 min read
Apr 11, 2026
Three Audiences, Three Agent Strategies
2 min read
Apr 10, 2026
Taste Does Not Scale With Token Throughput
2 min read
Apr 9, 2026
The IKEA Effect Is Real for Agent Tooling
2 min read
Apr 9, 2026
The Operationalization Gap: Where AI Demos Go to Die
2 min read
Apr 8, 2026
The Grayscale Between Engineering and Everywhere Else
2 min read
Apr 7, 2026
Crowded Starting Line, Empty Finish Line
2 min read
Apr 6, 2026
The Agent Buyer Map: Who Builds, Who Buys
2 min read
Apr 5, 2026
Agent Build Versus Buy: Why Engineers Keep Building It Themselves
2 min read
Apr 4, 2026
The Token Reckoning Is Coming
2 min read
Apr 3, 2026
Start With the Mirror, Not the Model
2 min read
Apr 2, 2026
Organizational Context Is the Hardest Problem Nobody Has Solved
2 min read
Apr 1, 2026
Customization Is the Moat, Not Model Quality
2 min read
Apr 1, 2026
The Harness Is Commoditized. Everything Else Is Not
2 min read
Mar 31, 2026
The Coordination Crisis AI Tooling Created
2 min read
Mar 30, 2026
Controllability Is Not Optional. Enterprise Teams Do Not Want Magic
2 min read
Mar 29, 2026
Always Too Early, Never Wrong
2 min read
Mar 28, 2026
Triggered Workflows Generate Most of the Volume
2 min read
Mar 27, 2026
Each Person Needs Their Own Agent Instance
2 min read
Mar 26, 2026
Internal AI Tools Have a Twelve-Month Shelf Life
2 min read
Mar 25, 2026
Human Review Is Not a Limitation
2 min read
Mar 24, 2026
Non-Determinism Demands Human Correction Loops
2 min read
Mar 23, 2026
Context Is the Moat — Don't Give It Away
2 min read
Mar 23, 2026
Review Is Not a Screen. It Is a Primitive
14 min read
Mar 22, 2026
The Mesh, Not the Monolith
2 min read
Mar 21, 2026
The Algorithm Should Be Inspectable
2 min read
Mar 20, 2026
Homegrown Platforms Decay
2 min read
Mar 19, 2026
When Building Is Cheap, Coordination Breaks
2 min read
Mar 18, 2026
Agent Memory Is Unsolved. Workflow-Scoped Learning Is Not
2 min read
Mar 17, 2026
What Workflow-First Looks Like in Practice
2 min read
Mar 16, 2026
Why Sandboxes Beat Vector RAG for Code Generation
2 min read
Mar 15, 2026
The Harness Is the Product. The Prompt Is Cheap
12 min read
Mar 14, 2026
The Convergent Agent Stack
2 min read
Mar 14, 2026
Event-Driven Agents Change What Is Possible
2 min read
Mar 13, 2026
Most APIs Are Not Ready for Agents
2 min read
Mar 12, 2026
The Unit of AI Consumption Is the Organization
2 min read
Mar 11, 2026
Two Maintenance Curves: Infrastructure Decreases, Context Never Stops
2 min read
Mar 10, 2026
The Three Phases of AI-Assisted Engineering
2 min read
Mar 9, 2026
Sessions Replace Tasks, Runs, and Threads
2 min read
Mar 8, 2026
The Agent Infra Maturity Gradient
2 min read
Mar 7, 2026
The Submodule Problem Is the Whole Problem in Miniature
2 min read
Mar 6, 2026
Code Review Becomes the Bottleneck
3 min read
Mar 5, 2026
Agent Memory Is the Defensible Layer
2 min read
Mar 5, 2026
The Agent Stack Build-vs-Buy Map
2 min read
Mar 4, 2026
The Agent Is the Primitive, Not the Automation
2 min read
Mar 3, 2026
Three Layers of Agent Context, and Most Agents Have Zero
2 min read
Mar 2, 2026
Start With Workflows, Not Roles
2 min read
Mar 1, 2026
The Declarative Atomic Agent
2 min read
Feb 28, 2026
Automating Knowledge Work Is Software Engineering
2 min read
Feb 27, 2026
The Mirror Problem
2 min read
Feb 26, 2026
Every Obvious AI Idea Gets Commoditized in Weeks
2 min read
Feb 25, 2026
Agents Are Software, Not Prompts
2 min read
Feb 24, 2026
The Agent Made a New Type Instead of Finding the Real One
2 min read
Feb 24, 2026
Vibe Code Has No Production Strategy
2 min read
Feb 23, 2026
The Procurement Trap
2 min read
Feb 22, 2026
The Mega-Agent Fantasy Is Already Falling Apart
2 min read
Feb 21, 2026
The Demo Is Not the Deployment
2 min read
Dec 22, 2025
Let the Agents Fight Each Other
2 min read
Dec 20, 2025
Agentic Defense: The Missing Half of the Equation
2 min read
Sep 10, 2025
The Road Ahead for AI Coding
2 min read
Sep 9, 2025
Beyond the Coast-to-Midwest AI Gap
2 min read
Sep 8, 2025
The AI Coding Middleware Moment
2 min read
Sep 7, 2025
From Code Writer to Code Judge
2 min read
Sep 6, 2025
The Multi-Agent Platform Play
2 min read
Sep 5, 2025
Democratizing Software Engineering
2 min read
Sep 4, 2025
The Three Tiers of AI Coding Adoption
2 min read
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