#automation
Every post tagged "automation".
36 posts · showing 11–20
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The Screening Agent That Could Only Be Right
Every available metric said it was working — and every one of them was computed only from the candidates it advanced. The decision destroys the evidence needed to evaluate the decision.
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The First Agent to Deploy in a Company That Has None
The first one shapes how much latitude every later one gets. Which means the right choice usually isn't the most valuable use case — it's the one most likely to succeed where people can see it.
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Technical Debt in the Age of Cheap Code
The old rules assumed writing code was the expensive part. When it isn't, imperfect implementations matter less and surplus surface matters more — and the create-versus-remove asymmetry gets worse.
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The Use Cases Everyone Tries and Nobody Ships
Six applications get attempted everywhere and stall at the same four points. Each has a narrower version that ships — and it's usually less exciting than the pitch that funded it.
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The Use Cases Agents Genuinely Solve Today
A criterion beats a list: complete inputs, a mechanical check, bounded blast radius. Everything clearing that bar is working in production — and the largest realized value is the least discussed.
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Which Jobs Go First: A Framework Rather Than a List
Lists of at-risk occupations age badly because exposure operates on tasks, not titles. Four properties score any task — and two people with the same job can land on opposite sides.
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The Compounding Loop: Agents Building Agent Infrastructure
Agents are good at building the harness that makes agents useful — well-specified, verifiable plumbing. The loop is real, and it has a hard boundary at everything requiring judgment about what to build.
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What Gets Cheap Next, and What Stays Expensive
Costs are being rearranged, not reduced. Four things are getting cheap, six aren't — and a fourth category nobody plans for is getting more expensive, including maintaining everything that was cheap to create.
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The SDLC Steps That Resist Automation Longest, and Why
Order the lifecycle by automatability and it doesn't track difficulty at all. Two properties decide it — and the steps that resist are short, frequent, and where all the leverage sits.
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What an Agent-Run Sprint Actually Looks Like
Not the same sprint faster — an inversion. Most of the week becomes specifying and reviewing, review becomes the constraint, and integration becomes the new time sink.