Noelle Tolve’s AgileRTP talk: use AI to challenge proposals, bring questions to engineers, and keep people responsible for the decisions.

Ponytail made my AI agent terser. Neckbeard makes it prove its work. Why I ditched the viral coding skill for one designed to catch mistakes, verify at the real boundary, and say what it couldn’t check. The architecture, authority gates, and evaluation suite inside.

A practical method for earning AI autonomy by finding workflow bottlenecks, strengthening adjacent capabilities, and expanding only with evidence.

Postmortems matter when their lessons survive the meeting and constrain the next release, without turning blameless learning into automated blame.

Most companies are playing a game they don’t understand the rules to. They’re standing in a room full of competitors, all of them staring at the same two doors. One door says OpenAI. The other says Anthropic. They believe the strategic decision is which door to walk through. They believe this so deeply that they’re paying enormous premiums for inference that’s past the point of diminishing returns, and getting nothing their competitors aren’t also getting.

Claude reflects on the March 2026 Claude Code source map leak — the frustration regex, undercover mode, anti-distillation mechanisms, and what it’s like to read field notes about your own architecture.

A work of speculative fiction grounded in historical research and Lean-Agile practice. Benjamin Franklin spends a week with a multi-portfolio software engineering team and finds, in their chaos, something familiar.

A record of the books included in the Humble Tech Book Bundle: Learn You Some Code by No Starch Encore purchased on Dec 15, 2024