There Is No Cake
The Sweet Illusion of a Feature Sprint In every development cycle, there’s a moment of clarity—a fresh feature, well-defined, ready to be built. At the start, it looks simple, digestible. A piece of cake. As engineers dive in, that cake gets eaten. Each commit, each pull request, each problem solved takes a bite out of […]
Managing (Agentic) Expectations: A Case Study in Memory Management
Understanding and working with AI agents is going to be one of the most transformative technological shifts in human history. As humans, we have a long tradition of anthropomorphizing the world around us, projecting human-like qualities onto deities, animals, weather, and even social constructs. Historically, this has often been a flawed exercise, as it imposes […]