The 70/30 Rule: How High-Performing Teams Actually Do AI-Assisted Development
The 70/30 Rule: Effective AI-Assisted Development for Engineering Leaders | Agile Tech Guru Vatsal Shah Engineering…
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Managed vs Self-Hosted Agent Harness — The Deployment Trade-off Engineering Leaders Get Wrong
Managed agents ship Tuesday. Self-hosted agents ship architecture. Pick wrong and portability becomes a fantasy slide. Here is…
21 min · Jul 15, 2026 Read this piece →
Continuous Discovery Habits in the AI Age: Teresa Torres Framework Updated
Learn how to update Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits using AI-assisted interview synthesis, automated assumption…
21 min · Jul 14, 2026 Read this piece →
Designing Custom MCP Servers for Developer Agents: Exposing Local Tools to Claude and Cursor
A complete step-by-step developer tutorial on creating custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Node.js and Python to…
23 min · Jul 14, 2026 Read this piece →
DORA Is Not Enough in 2026 — The AI Attribution Layer Engineering Leaders Actually Need
DORA metrics celebrate deployment frequency but mask massive rework rates. Here is the AI Attribution layer engineering leaders…
23 min · Jul 14, 2026 Read this piece →
MCP Tool Poisoning — The Agent Supply Chain Attack Hiding in Tool Metadata
Your agent didn't get hacked in the tool code. It got hacked in the tool description — invisible to humans, authoritative to the…
8 min · Jul 14, 2026 Read this piece →
The Agent Harness Is Your Control Plane — Why AI Lock-In Moved Above the Model Layer
Same frontier model. One team ships in weeks, another burns a year in prototype. The difference isn't GPT vs Claude — it's the…
22 min · Jul 14, 2026 Read this piece →
Platform Engineering for the Agentic AI Era — When Your IDP Becomes the Governance Machine
78% of enterprises have a platform team. Only 23% have an IDP that can govern agents. That gap is where shadow agents live. Here…
22 min · Jul 14, 2026 Read this piece →
The CFO OS: Restructuring Corporate Close, Audit, and Cash Reconciliation Loops
Practitioner breakdown of The CFO OS: Restructuring Corporate Close, Audit, and Cash Reconciliation Loops — written for CTOs, VP…
24 min · Jul 13, 2026 Read this piece →
Re-Engineering the Project Manager: Moving from Tactical Task-Tracking to Strategic Design
Practitioner breakdown of Re-Engineering the Project Manager: Moving from Tactical Task-Tracking to Strategic Design — written…
22 min · Jul 13, 2026 Read this piece →
Designing AI Portfolio Management Engines: Algorithmic Capital Allocation Strategy for Enterprise Engineering
Modern enterprise engineering organizations face an unprecedented crisis of resource fragmentation. Modern enterprise engineering…
22 min · Jul 12, 2026 Read this piece →
Healthcare AI Transformation: Deployment Architecture for HIPAA and Clinical Compliance
The intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare represents one of the most significant technological shifts of the…
22 min · Jul 12, 2026 Read this piece →