Tag: AI-Assisted Development


  • We trusted our anecdotes until we had to count

    For a long time, I could have told you good stories about the quality of our software. We talk to customers before we build, reviews catch problems early, and critical bugs get fixed fast. What I could not have shown you were software quality metrics that backed any of this up. That changed when our…

  • We made the same call as the customer who left us

    On the last Monday of September, I saw the same build vs buy decision from both sides of the table, a few hours apart. In the morning, one of our customers called to say they would end a service we run for them. From January, a team elsewhere in their group would have spare capacity,…

  • When Building Gets Faster Than Learning

    As implementation gets faster and cheaper, the bottleneck in product development can shift toward product management and design. Engineers can turn an idea into working software while the team is still figuring out which problem matters, how people will use the solution, and whether anyone will pay for it. Product and Design Are Getting Faster…