Updates, insights, and ideas from the Balladic team.
When AI agents handle the implementation, the substantive work shifts to architecture, sequencing, and the gates between phases. A note on how a workflow built around Claude Code, worktrees, and MCP-backed task tracking changes which skills compound.
On the odd difficulty of getting your point across, and iterations of communication
On the distance between what specialists know and what everyone else gets to see.
On the distance between showing your work and sharing it.
On the quiet cost of organizing before you begin.
On the gap between doing the work and describing the work.
On the gap between what your context files remember and what your project knows.