The Delegation Tax
Every time you hand a task to an agent, you pay a hidden cost. The question isn't whether to pay it — it's whether you're managing it.
Context-Driven Development
Essays on agentic software development, context-driven workflows, and the future of engineering.
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The Mythical Agent Month
Code got cheaper. Coordination did not.
The Stopping Problem
Getting agents to start is trivial. Getting them to stop at the right moment is where most teams go wrong.
The Drift Problem
Agent systems that work on day one don't automatically keep working. Here's why — and what to do about it.
The Shape of the Work
What changes when one engineer runs a fleet
Why Your Agent Team Needs a Chain of Command
Multi-agent coordination is an organizational design problem wearing an engineering costume
A New Paradigm
What happens when optimization becomes a loop you design, not work you do
The Tool Proliferation Problem
Why giving agents more tools makes them worse—and how to design tool sets that actually work
The Latency Problem
AI demos feel instant. AI products feel slow. Here's why—and what you can do about it.
The Hallucination Tax
A 95% accurate model still requires 100% of your review attention.
Managing Agents
The hard part was never getting code written
The Overnight Engineer
What happens to software development when the work doesn't stop when you do
After Vibe Coding
The reckoning comes at the maintenance window
Context Debt
It compounds faster than technical debt, and it's invisible until it isn't
The Compound Agent
Why the best AI work you'll ever do isn't the task—it's what you leave behind
The Approval Problem
Why reviewing every agent output is killing your productivity—and what to do instead
The Solo Agent Thesis
Why one capable agent beats a swarm of specialists
Cron-Driven Agents
From Always-On to Event-Driven AI Assistants
The Worktree Pattern
Isolation as a First Principle in Agentic Development
The Memory Problem
Why Your Agent Keeps Forgetting and What Actually Works
The Context Engineer
The Most Important Role Nobody's Hiring For
The Creative Cycle
Scheduled AI as Creative Partner
The Role Factory
Building Specialized Agents from One Model
The Personal Operating System
From Reasoning Engine to Operating System
The Recipe, Not the Cake
Why Prompts Are the New Source Code
The General-Purpose Agent Has Arrived
Why Your Coding Assistant Is Actually a Reasoning Engine
When Everyone Runs a Factory
Why Teams Can't Just Multiply Gas Town
Everyone Is a CTO Now
2025 in review, and what comes next
Computer, Ship It
We built the voice. We forgot the ship.
The Portfolio Engineer
When Code is Cheap, Ownership Becomes Capital
Quality Is the Bottleneck Now
Managing AI Development at Scale (Without Shipping Vibe-Coded Slop)
The Vibe PM
Project Management in the Age of AI Agents
Agile Considered Harmful 2.0
Why AI Demands Context-Driven Development
Context-Driven Development Manifesto
The revolution in software development starts with clarity