AI

A follow-up to The Manager of Agents. I named three roles and missed a fourth: the platform tier that builds and runs the harness. It is also the one place the enterprise is quietly renting its own accountability.

A bet I am making with my career, written down so you can disagree with it. The unit of work in software engineering is moving from a human writing code to a fleet of agents writing it, and the human is becoming the manager of that fleet.

Notes from the floor of a factory that is still being built.

I spent weeks building agent governance by hand. Then Microsoft open-sourced a toolkit that covers most of it.

IDEs change every 18 months. Agents are disposable. The merge request is the one artifact that survives.

Two budget lines are moving toward each other like scissors. For some companies, they have already crossed.

I ran a thought experiment on a hike. A company builds the most powerful AI model ever, then refuses to sell it. Two days later, I checked the news.

Six patterns for running AI coding agents in environments where the container is assumed compromised.

What happens when you present AI governance to 300 automotive executives on a Friday afternoon in Ingolstadt.

Every enterprise adopting AI coding tools hits the same wall within 90 days: nobody knows what it costs.