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Notes from the gigafactory floor.

Operating model, roles, and patterns from teams shipping software with agents.

Line illustration: shipping a checkout page fast

FEATURED

Price It or Park It

Your first price isn't a law, it's a hypothesis. Stop researching, ship the checkout, and let three real customers tell you what a spreadsheet never will.

June 29, 2026

Line illustration: an autonomous agent factory running unattended

FEATURED

Frontier SDLC: How I Learned to Stop Babysitting and Love the Factory

Does your agent build software while you sleep? If yes, you have a software factory. If not, you are still babysitting. The four conditions that change everything.

June 4, 2026

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Line illustration: laps as continuous feedback loops

OPERATING MODEL

7 MIN

Run Laps, Not Sprints

Sprints were built for a world where coding was the bottleneck. That world is gone. A track. A lap. That is the new unit of work.

May 25, 2026

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Line illustration: factory floor with agent throughput

OPERATING MODEL

6 MIN

You Are Funding the Wrong Engineering Budget

Every team running with AI spends against two budgets. Most fund the workshop. Few build the factory.

May 22, 2026

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Line illustration: automation and amplified creation

OPERATING MODEL

6 MIN

From Sprints to Laps: A New System for AI-first Engineering

AI didn't remove constraints — it exposed them. A new operating model for engineering teams running agents at scale.

May 8, 2026

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