Scrum is broken. I thought I knew what Agile looked like. 2-week sprints, story points, daily standups. I ran that cadence at my last job. But something changed with Opus 4.7. Now, once we’ve groomed the cards and defined the sprint, everything is done within a day. Doesn’t matter how many cards we throw into a sprint, we just fire up more parallel agents. ...
What is the act of programming? My team and I went back to first principles earlier this year. And I went back to the old masters: Brooks, Naur, Djikstra. I was seeking to re-learn the essence of Software Engineering from those who had thought about the problem in the beginning. If the act of programming is no longer typing symbols into computer code, then what is it? I think Naur has a great definition in his paper, “Programming as Theory Building”. ...
The Problem I’m Trying to Solve I’ve been coding with AI agents for as long as they’ve been generally available, and I keep running into the same bottleneck: me. Every time Claude generates code, I need to review it. Every time it completes a feature, I need to verify it actually works. Every time it runs tests, I need to check if the failures are real bugs or hallucinations. I’m the human in the loop, and I’m slowing everything down. ...
What does it look like to build AI agents that actually empower people’s lives, not just “augment” them? For HealthShare Technology Solutions, I wanted to build an AI agent that non-technical users can actually use to take the hassle out of their health care cost sharing plan. In this post I’ll describe the guiding principles and design decisions that made Alice not just possible, but empowering to everyday users. The guiding principles I used in building Alice come down to four key words: ...