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Previous Issues
Every edition, in order.
May 5, 2026 3 min read
The Leadership Bench Test
If your best engineer disappears for 10 days and the system wobbles, your org was not resilient. It was carried.
April 28, 2026 3 min read
The AI Scoreboard That Actually Matters
Most teams are measuring AI adoption, not AI outcomes. This is the weekly scoreboard I use to tell whether AI is improving engineering or just inflating output.
April 21, 2026 4 min read
The Loop Makes it Yours
The rules, hooks, skills, and agents you encoded last quarter are already drifting. Not because you built them wrong. Because the AI didn't stop moving after you shipped the configuration.
April 14, 2026 4 min read
From Standards to Structure
You wrote the markdown. You put it in the repo. You pointed at it in onboarding.
April 7, 2026 4 min read
Before the AI Setup
You can't train a non-deterministic tool on standards that don't exist.
March 31, 2026 3 min read
The License Isn't the Work
Your team has an AI license. That's not adoption. That's a gym membership.