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There are plenty of HTML slide decks out there. But I believe this one is doing something different. It uses what I'm calling an "evolving-scene model": one shared diagrammatic can…

Excellent article, and I agree with you wholeheartedly, except on one point (which may be to some extent semantic): Tech leads are the most valuable hires . Managers typically are …

Thank you I greatly appreciate the feedback!! Wow, yes I should have looked more closely at the image - which was obviously generated by Gemini Nano Banana (it usually does a bette…

There are two loud camps in agentic coding right now. I think they're both wrong. Camp one says you need a human reviewing every line of AI-generated code before it ships. Responsi…

Everyone’s talking about spec-driven development. But is it just waterfall in markdown? In issue #2 of my harness engineering newsletter, I break down what SDD actually is (and isn…