October 25, 2026
Agentic Development, Part 7: Connecting the AI Organisation
In my July talk, I described AI working as members of an organisation. Each would have its own …
October 12, 2026
Agentic Development, Part 6: The Factory as a Living Contract
The image I have in mind for the factory comes from Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.
What …
September 28, 2026
Agentic Development, Part 5: From Seeds to Candidates
Looking at Michelangelo's plan for the Sistine Chapel, I imagine him alone with the scale of the …
September 05, 2026
Agentic Development, Part 4: Intent Harvesting and Pairbuilding
This post is about addressing the new bottleneck of software: intent clarification. We can also call …
August 30, 2026
Agentic Development, Part 3: The Software Dark Factory
In less than two weeks, we built a complete system that would probably have taken a team of five or …
July 26, 2026
You Will Not Transform Your Company With Use Cases
Photo by Davit Magaltadze on Pexels.
Everyone has seen an impressive AI demo.
Almost nobody has seen …
May 03, 2026
Agentic Development, Part 2: Making the Speed Useful
Making the sprint shorter is the obvious answer to AI speed.
Improving the technical specifications …
April 26, 2026
Agentic Development, Part 1: The Bottleneck Is No Longer Code
One developer can now easily produce 100,000 lines of code in a few days.
Now put several of them on …