Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the upcoming one. Ignore everything else. Don’t work on anything that doesn’t... See more

Toward an “AI Team” of specialists

Today’s coding agents mostly tackle implementation: write code, fix code, write tests, etc. But the vision doesn’t stop there. Imagine a full software development pipeline where multiple specialized AI agents handle different phases of the lifecycle, coordinated by a human orchestrator . This is already on the... See more

Engineering organizations today have ballooned to huge numbers of people, but these huge engineering organizations don’t exactly have a reputation for high velocity output. Some of this is the result of what happens with products at scale: it is just fundamentally faster and easier to iterate, improve, or change a product with 100 users than it is... See more