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Defining the presence of capacity shouldn’t be answered by “What did person X say?” “The…#
Defining the presence of capacity shouldn’t be answered by “What did person X say?”
“The first is closing what they call the control standards gap: the failure to translate organizational intent into machine-verifiable rules. Most governance breaks down not because people don’t care about quality or security, but because the standards exist only in documents and people’s heads—never encoded in a form that can run automatically at the speed software is being generated.”
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“Everyone’s talking about AI agents, but what you really need is employees with agency. And i…#
“Everyone’s talking about AI agents, but what you really need is employees with agency. And if you don’t figure out how to give them the access and autonomy to make decisions on behalf of your organization, all of your AI innovation efforts are screwed.”
https://www.elenaverna.com/p/your-ai-strategy-has-a-trust-problem
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“Subject matter experts from six different teams, each reporting that their own service looks h…#
“Subject matter experts from six different teams, each reporting that their own service looks healthy. Six dashboards are green, but meanwhile, checkout is still failing for customers. The knowledge needed to explain what’s happening exists, distributed across six heads, but nobody is assembling the pieces.”
https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/06/16/incident-tech-lead/
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“In fact, organisations pursuing this future will need stronger engineering capabilities than t…#
“In fact, organisations pursuing this future will need stronger engineering capabilities than they have today in order to enable SDaSS…
Most enterprises are not particularly good at these things today.”
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The Internet can still bring goodness: - https://www.instagram.com/p/DSKoDGWD-z1/ - <https://…#
The Internet can still bring goodness:
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Watching Ari mix beats and drop bangers with all kinds of people while walking the NYC streets. Excellent.
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“So perhaps the grotesque part, the unavoidable part of optimization culture, is the idea that …#
“So perhaps the grotesque part, the unavoidable part of optimization culture, is the idea that there must be clear rules that work for everyone and guarantee large, measurable, quantified improvements and that every intervention must work like a miracle drug.”
https://www.argmin.net/p/i-want-a-new-drug
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“By the way, it’s not just documents… I’m also seeing the same pattern in pull requests, …#
“By the way, it’s not just documents… I’m also seeing the same pattern in pull requests, automated tests, and even decisions. We’re going faster by passing the slow part (the reading, the actual understanding) to whoever comes next.”
https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/06/17/you-got-faster-your-company-didnt/
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It’s not customer facing, but I’ve been able to clod-together a respectable bespoke JIRA-free pro…#
It’s not customer facing, but I’ve been able to clod-together a respectable bespoke JIRA-free project tracker using
GitHub Issues w/a small number of labels
GitHub Actions
Hugo static site builder + d3js
Docsy theme
And regularly prompting the agent to “critically evaluate this page using a Tufte lens and suggest improvements”.