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The best software factories are product factories
As the cost of code continues to plummet, the hard part is deciding what to build. The teams that win pick better ideas, find out sooner what customers use, and build on what works.
Replace your agent skills with a knowledge operating system
Skill files are giving way to knowledge operating systems that capture a team's tacit knowledge and let frontier models do their best work.
The future of agent autonomy lives far beyond prompting
Prompting keeps a person in every decision. Autonomous agents need orchestration, a shared brain, and intelligence that grows as they learn the business.
Rent the model, own everything else
Satya Nadella wants AI controls kept outside the model. The teams that take that seriously will rent the model and own everything around it.
End-to-end AI simulation has replaced unit tests and traditional QA
The fastest way to know a product works is to let AI agents use it like customers, on every release. Nothing else a team can run comes close.
Agentic experience is the new user experience
Agents buy your product and work inside your company. Agent experience is how we define those systems and patterns.
Leadership and encouragement are now essential software engineering skills
An Anthropic agent broke a decades-old math record while the only human involved mostly just said keep going.
Data centers are a three decade American story
Data centers have been part of American life for thirty years. And all future benefit to humanity by AI depends on them.
The self-managing software engineering team is here
AI solved capacity, not leadership. Lead Dev scopes the work, holds every change to your standard, and brings you only the calls that need you.
Don't build your own software factory
Your company's internal software factory is a startup you didn't mean to found: one customer, no revenue, and your best engineer as its founding team.
