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Engineering Management
Latest thoughts on building agentic software teams, implementing guardrails for AI development, and scaling engineering operations.
Your Software Factory Should Build Itself
Thin harness or fat, loop or factory, both camps are arguing about lines of code while the real question moved up a level: the factory that ships your software should itself be software the factory ships.
The 8 Levels of AI Coding Experience
Where are you on the AI coding spectrum? From tab-complete skeptic to orchestrator builder, Steve Yegge's framework maps the journey, with specific tools and habits at every stage.
Estimated Developer Minutes: A Simple Way to Measure What AI Actually Produces
Estimated Developer Minutes (EDM) asks one question: how long would a human developer take to write this code? Inspired by Stanford research, it's how Actual AI measures real AI productivity.
The Rise and Fall of Code Review
Code review went from an afterthought to half the job and back again. Our survey data tracks the parabola in real time.
From Vibe-Coding to Specs: How Junior Developers Are Finding Their Place in AI Teams
AWS Kiro and spec-driven development are reshaping how junior developers contribute to AI-enabled software teams, moving beyond the senior developer advantage.
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