Fresh Reads

What it takes to run agents in a codebase older than the team

Agents can finish the task without teaching you anything. Building expertise now has to be deliberate.

A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.

A field guide to building a software factory that still has an owner.

Goals, loops, and the discipline of not delegating your judgment

Quality now depends on the constraints you set around your agents.

A software factory is harnessing loops at scale - the system that builds your software instead of you. You can run the loop with humans in it (light factory) or you can ignore the humans (dark factory) and let those agents scope, build and ship code, without anyone really…

Engineers need to own the outer loop, the accountability for these systems. A written version of my AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 closing keynote: quality, verdict, and answerability, the three hidden costs of delegation, and building software factories you can stand behind.

Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you're junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose. A builder's look at the weakening entry level, the two debts we now owe, and concrete ways to build judgment when the machine writes the…

AI gets good at anything with an answer key. Your career is everything that doesn't have one.