Anchoring Our Mental Model
How we build individual and shared understanding of software, and what changes when AI agents write the code. I remember being on a high floor down…
Software Engineering
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Everyone Hit Their Numbers. The System Didn’t Move.
The night before the on-site, six of us went to dinner. Forty people were flying in the next morning to spend two days working on one…
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Principles of Anchor Engineering
Building software at agent speed with human judgement I have often seen one engineer get much faster with AI coding agents; then adding a second engineer…
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Nobody Asks the Hard Question Anymore
The AI builder/non-builder split is a measurement failure, and there’s data Somewhere in the last two years, a line got drawn down the middle of the…