Who Can Actually Stop the Workflow?
Governance fails when the policies and meetings exist but nobody has both the authority and understanding to say: stop — not like this.
Read excerpt →Excerpts
New and revised selections from The AI Developer's Field Guide. Start with the latest Volume II excerpts.
The Autonomy Mirage Is Not Accountability
The gap between what an agent can sometimes do and what an organization can safely trust it to do is where the mirage begins.
Read excerpt →The Infinite Backlog Engine Is Always Producing
AI makes proposing almost free. The cost of deciding remains, and the gap fills roadmaps with polished options nobody has actually chosen.
Read excerpt →Meet the Cost Singularity
You do not feel yourself cross the event horizon. The distance between useful experiment and infrastructure is traveled in small, reasonable steps.
Read excerpt →When the Dungeon Gets Bigger
The first book stayed close to developers. Volume II is about what happens when the AI conversation moves beyond the dev team.
Read excerpt →The Probability Pixie Will Ruin Your Day
The same prompt produces different results each time. The developer who got a great answer on Tuesday can't reproduce it on Wednesday. Consistency becomes a matter of luck.
Read excerpt →Your Codebase Is Congealing
Congealing Slop is what happens when AI-generated code accumulates without enough shaping. Each piece works in isolation. Together, they resist change and defy understanding.
Read excerpt →The Fighter with a Language Model
The Fighter is defined by a bias toward action so strong that it can crowd out reflection. AI tools amplify almost every one of the Fighter's instincts — and that's the problem.
Read excerpt →The Phantom Intern Is Already on Your Team
Code appears in your repository with no clear author, no review trail, and no institutional memory. It was generated, pasted, and committed. Now it's your problem.
Read excerpt →Meet the Scope Creep Kraken
If you've spent any time around AI-assisted software work, you already know the moment when the Scope Creep Kraken first puts a tentacle on the boat.
Read excerpt →Why AI Coding Needs Anti-Patterns
Something shifted in software over the last couple of years, and most teams felt it before they found the language for it.
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