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The Map That Became the Territory: AI, Specifications, and What We Mean When We Say 'I Built This'

On AI agents, observability, bespoke software, and the uncomfortable question of who actually built what when LLMs generate our code.

The Supervisory Programmer: Managing Agents, Context Switching, and Cognitive Debt

Senior devs thrive with LLMs while mid-level careers face challenges. But can we really manage multiple AI agents without burning out?

The Dark Factory: Building Software Without Ever Looking at the Code

StrongDM's AI team ships production software written entirely by agents, using Digital Twin Universes and holdout scenarios instead of human code review.

AI Coding Agents Are Fast, But They Write Like Junior Developers

I spent months testing AI agents on a real codebase. They shipped features quickly, but the code quality tells a different story about sustainable development.
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