Topic
Platform & DevOps
7 articles
Your AI Policy Is a PDF. Make It Executable.
Acceptable-use PDFs don't govern agents — permission scopes, tool allowlists, hooks, and CI gates do. Move policy from the wiki into configuration where it's enforced by default.
August 7, 2026Estimate the Review, Not the Writing
Story points measured human drafting effort, which agents just zeroed out. Work is now bimodal: size verification cost, split agent-eligible from human-led lanes, and cap agent output at review capacity.
July 29, 2026Your Test Suite Is the Autonomy Dial
How much autonomy you can safely give a coding agent is set by your weakest verification layer, not the model's IQ — with a four-level autonomy ladder and anti-reward-hacking practices.
July 15, 2026Write It Down or the Agent Makes It Up
Agent output quality tracks documentation quality, not model quality. AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md turn tribal knowledge into a maintained dependency — and agent failures become documentation bugs.
July 13, 2026Your DORA Metrics Can't See Your AI Investment
Developers using agents ship far more, yet DORA metrics barely move. Why your delivery metrics can't see your AI investment — and the three things to instrument before you scale.
July 10, 2026Who Reviews the Robot's Code?
Coding agents didn't remove work — they moved it from writing to reviewing, the real bottleneck. How to redesign code review for the agent era before your senior engineers drown.
July 1, 2026Infrastructure as Code That Survives Contact With a Team
IaC promises reproducible infrastructure, then quietly rots into a pile of copy-pasted modules nobody trusts. Here's how to keep Terraform (or its cousins) maintainable as the team and the estate grow.
June 17, 2026The Goldwater dispatch
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