Engine room · one brain · no filter fitted

Thoughts
under
pressure

Every brass gauge is a thought I've published, and its needle shows how worked up I was. The pipes show how the thoughts connect. Move over the machine to stimulate it, and click a gauge to read.

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RNTNo. 016

Burst pressure

A hundred agents building a product that one agent could have built. Are we overthinking ourselves into a burst?

IDANo. 015

The participation gap

The software factory is just the latest incarnation of spec-driven development. The spec keeps getting smarter. The people who own the problem keep getting left out.

IDANo. 014

The SDLC just got bigger

Engineering hasn't gone away. It's just different: more complex than it's ever been, and simpler too.

Anatomy of the machine

Four lobes

  1. Chamber IRNTRantsThings that made me hopping mad.05 thoughts →
  2. Chamber IIBLDBuildsStuff I made, and how.02 thoughts →
  3. Chamber IIIIDAIdeasHalf-formed. Possibly brilliant.08 thoughts →
  4. Chamber IVMEMMemoryLessons I paid for.01 thoughts →
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