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Building an AI-native engineering org, in the open

Essays on what changes when agents write most of the code — the methodology, the judgment that doesn't automate, and the system I open-sourced to hold it all together. First published on dev.to; collected here.

Building Bodhiorchard

I Replaced Scrum, Jira, and Our Wiki With 12 AI Agents on a Mac Mini

More than half the code we ship is AI-generated — so I stopped bending fifteen-year-old Agile process around an AI-native team and built my own. Twelve agents, one living document per feature, and the whole org rendered as a 3D grove. It runs on a Mac mini.

8 Jun 202613 min read

AIOpen SourceDevOpsMethodology

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The 80/20 series · Part 2How We Hire for the 20% AI Can't Do

The 80/20 series · Part 2

How We Hire for the 20% AI Can't Do

If AI writes the clean 80%, an interview that tests clean-code-under-pressure is testing the wrong thing. So we stopped asking candidates to write code — we hand them AI-written code that looks fine and quietly costs money three weeks later, and watch what they catch.

2 Jun 202610 min read

HiringAICareerEngineering

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The 80/20 series · Part 1AI Agents Are Great at 80% of Our Code. The Other 20% Is Why We Still Need Seniors.

The 80/20 series · Part 1

AI Agents Are Great at 80% of Our Code. The Other 20% Is Why We Still Need Seniors.

We let AI agents loose on an FCA-authorised payment platform. They crushed the boring 80%. Then they silently broke the 20% that moves money — the illegal state transitions and idempotency a senior encodes in their bones, not their code.

28 May 20266 min read

AIFintechWeb DevStartup

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The methodology behind the writing

Every essay here traces back to one open-source system. See how Agent-Driven Development actually works.

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