How my teams build.
Notes from running engineering: what worked, what failed, and the rules we kept. Written for founders who want to know how the sausage gets made, and for engineers who make it.
- I built my sales pipeline the way I build engineering: agents draft, a person decides.
Four scheduled jobs, one spreadsheet, and nothing sent until a human ticks a box.
- Building an AI agent the boring way: contracts first, model last.
Making the spec executable found 70 gaps before a single model call.
- We tried a lights-out software factory. It failed. Here's the SDLC we run instead.
The rule we run on now: thinking is never offloaded to the model.
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