AI has made every individual step of building a product faster: research, requirements, documentation, prototyping. It has not yet made the product faster to build. The gap between those two facts is …
No Human Reviewed That Code. Instagram Went Down. Again.
On the morning of Friday 12 June, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads went down simultaneously. Over 100,000 users reported problems within the first hour. The outage ran for around five hours, …
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AI Productivity Metrics: Token Spend Is the New Lines of Code
Your AI productivity metrics are rising. Token spend, PR volume, deployment frequency: all up, all appearing on executive dashboards, all being used by people with authority to make consequential …
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Why AI Adoption Really Stalls
The people who hang back longest in AI adoption programmes are rarely the least capable. I have noticed this pattern repeat across teams: AI adoption resistance concentrates in the experienced, the …
The Living Standard
The most dangerous state in codification as a practice is not absence. It is the standard that was accurate six months ago and hasn't been touched since. Teams that have done the work of codification …
Judgment at Scale Is a Codification Problem
The most common codification mistake isn't refusing to write things down. It is writing down the wrong thing. Teams ask their experienced people to document how they make decisions. Those people …
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