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Markdown Is the New Shadow IT
The next governance failure in technology organizations will not arrive as a rogue SaaS subscription, an unapproved database, or a side project running on someone’s AWS account. It will arrive as a tidy folder in a repository, a SKILL.mdfile, an MCP server configuration, a prompt package, or a tool descriptor that… Read more ⇢
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The Superhuman Lesson for the AI Era: Product-Market Fit Is Not Found Faster by Building Faster
The most dangerous misunderstanding in technology leadership right now is the belief that AI-first development makes product-market fit easier. It does not. It makes the cost of being wrong cheaper, the volume of wrong work higher, and the illusion of progress more convincing. That is why First Round Review’s classic… Read more ⇢
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Architectural Hygiene Is the New Executive Discipline in Agentic Engineering
Every line of code is a future obligation. It must be understood, secured, tested, upgraded, observed, explained, and eventually retired. In the pre-agentic world, the human cost of writing code created a natural brake on software growth. In the agentic world, that brake is gone. That is the promise and… Read more ⇢
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Your AI Strategy Is Missing the Asset That Compounds
Satya Nadella’s most important AI argument is not about models. It is about whether your company retains the ability to learn. Most enterprise AI strategies are still procurement strategies dressed up as transformation plans. They describe which copilots will be licensed, which models will be approved, how many pilots will… Read more ⇢
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The Mythical Man-Month Was Not Wrong. AI Agents Make It More Dangerous.
Fifty-one years after Frederick Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month, the software industry is again convincing itself that it has finally escaped the laws of software delivery. This time the promised escape is not offshore scale, agile transformation, microservices, low-code platforms, or DevOps. It is agents. The temptation is understandable. GitHub now… Read more ⇢
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Triads Were a Great Answer to a Coordination Problem. AI Changes the Problem.
Sriram Narayan recently took a swing at a trend that has quietly become a corporate comfort blanket: treating “triads” as a hiring plan instead of a collaboration pattern. His point is simple and sharp. When leaders interpret triads as “a designer and a PM per engineering manager,” they create a… Read more ⇢
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The Next Talent Advantage is Not AI Usage. It is AI Judgement.
The most useful warning in the recent Thomson Reuters piece is not that AI is moving too fast. It is that companies can win the tooling race and still lose the talent race. The article argues that unchecked AI use can erode human connection, cognitive skill, learning, and purpose at… Read more ⇢
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The Manager Is Dead. Long Live the Manager.
AI is not just automating tasks. It is compressing distance. Distance between strategy and execution. Between a customer signal and a product change. Between a decision and the data behind it. And when distance collapses, the org chart stops behaving like a pyramid and starts behaving like a network. That… Read more ⇢
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Talent Density Is the Real AI Strategy
Most “AI-first” transformations are framed like a tooling upgrade. Roll out copilots. Stand up an LLM gateway. Run a few enablement sessions. Add a dashboard. Declare victory. That framing is convenient, and wrong. The hard truth is that AI shifts the physics of product delivery. When a small group can… Read more ⇢
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