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Practical thinking on applying AI to software delivery. No hype, no roadmap fan-fiction. What we have actually found to be true.

Practice May 27, 2026

AI pays off at the lifecycle, not the keystroke

Autocomplete in the editor is real, but it is the smallest version of the story. The compounding returns show up when the whole delivery lifecycle is rewired around AI.

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Philosophy May 11, 2026

Put AI between you and the task

The most useful mental model we have found for working with AI every day: stop treating it as a tool you pick up, and start treating it as a layer the work passes through.

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Practice Apr 21, 2026

What we check before we automate a workflow

Not every workflow should be handed to AI, and the ones that should rarely look the way people expect. Here is the short checklist we run first.

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