A 3-Part Series: Agents, Workflows, and Skills – Build the Right Thing In Part 1, we built a bug investigation agent. In Part 2, we built a content quality pipeline. Both worked. Both had AI doing something I hope you find genuinely useful. But if you read them back to back with a sufficiently critical eye – the kind of eye a good code reviewer develops after seeing the same mistake for the fifth time – you’d notice something I deliberately left in both systems: capability reuse. The bug agent could search code. The content pipeline had its own policy checker.…
Category: <span>Engineering</span>
Agile resolves human communication failures. But what happens when the humans are taken out of the loop? I shipped my first product in 1998. Waterfall. 3 months of requirements documents, a month of design specs, and 4 months of engineering – followed by a go-live that revealed, with painful precision, that the stakeholder had wanted something slightly but critically different. We had built the right system for the wrong mental model. That experience wasn’t unique. It was the norm. And it’s exactly why a group of engineers and thinkers gathered in a Utah ski lodge in February 2001 and wrote…