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# The Agent Isn't Liable. You Are.

The agent isn't liable. You are. That's not a limitation to engineer around. It's the reason the review exists.

September 15, 20265 min read

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Every Constraint Needs to Be a Mechanism, Not a Sentence

You can write a rule for your agent. That doesn't mean you've enforced anything.

September 14, 20269 min read

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The Year I Stopped Blaming the Model

A year ago, I asked for 1 repository layer. I got twenty different looking files back.

September 14, 20266 min read

The Only Agent Whose Job Is to Say No

Every other agent in the pipeline takes something as given — a feature, a story, a task. The Product Manager is handed an idea and decides whether it becomes anything at all. Three of its four possible answers are ways of not building something.

August 26, 20268 min read

Why SAFe Has No Tech Lead — and Why You Need One Anyway

SAFe defines a System Architect at the program level. It doesn't define the person inside a single team who turns a story into a dependency graph of buildable tasks. Every real team has that person — the framework just never named them.

August 26, 20267 min read

Why the Product Owner Can't Also Run QA

The Product Owner writes the acceptance criteria; QA validates them. Merge the two and you've built something that grades its own homework — the quality gate keeps the ceremony and loses the function.

August 26, 20267 min read

Scrum Master Agent Role (Team Level)

Every other role on an AI scrum team leaves something behind — the Product Owner leaves stories, the Tech Lead leaves tasks. The Scrum Master leaves a team that didn't overcommit. That's why it's the easiest role to skip, and why folding it into the Product Owner quietly guarantees sustainable pace loses.

August 26, 20269 min read