#deep-dive
Every post tagged "deep-dive".
107 posts · showing 71–80
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Accountability Cannot Be Delegated to a Model
"The agent decided" answers nothing — not legally, not organizationally, not to the person affected. What accountability actually requires has design consequences, including why a rubber-stamp gate is worse than none.
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Taste Is a Bottleneck: Where Judgment Has No Substitute Yet
Cheap generation doesn't reduce the value of judgment — it makes discrimination the scarce step. And it introduces a hazard: well-argued cases for mediocre options, which is what agents produce uniformly.
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The Failure Modes That Don't Improve With Scale
Most agent limitations improve with the models. A smaller set won't, because the constraint isn't the model — and building elaborate workarounds for one while waiting out the other gets both wrong.
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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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Code Review When Most Code Is Agent-Written
Review practices assumed an author who had reasons, understood the system, and made idiosyncratic mistakes. Agent output breaks all three — and the bugs that survive are the ones that look correct.
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The Deploy Step Nobody Should Automate Yet
It's the easiest step to automate, saves the least time, and carries the largest tail risk. Automate the readiness report and the rollback instead — and separate deploying from releasing.
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Requirements Are the Bottleneck an SDLC Agent Can't Remove
Compress implementation to nothing and delivery barely moves, because implementation was never the long row in the table. The constraint is upstream, it's organizational, and no tooling touches it.
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Agents Are Better at Writing Code Than at Deciding What to Build
Both feel like thinking about the problem, and only one has complete inputs and a checkable answer. The reframe that makes a model genuinely useful near a decision it shouldn't be making.
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What "End-to-End Development Agent" Actually Means Right Now
The phrase covers demos that differ by orders of magnitude. Naming the eight stages shows which two are genuinely autonomous — and why chaining them is qualitatively harder than any one of them.
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What Employers Pay For When Code Itself Is Cheap
Companies were never buying code exactly, but code was a big enough share that the distinction rarely mattered. Five things remain when it's cheap — and the proxies that used to demonstrate them stop working.