Engineering-Leadership

Apple and Google just shipped the agentic loop to a billion pockets, and the bar for what counts as a good product moved with them.

AI coding tools became load-bearing and usage-metered at the same moment, and that combination changes how you have to run an engineering org.

Stripe just gave autonomous agents a way to spend money. The permission arguments I've been making stop being theoretical the moment an agent can transact.

Every engineering team talks about tech debt like it's a code problem. But trace most of it back to its origin and you'll usually land on a business decision, not a bad engineer.

The most important pattern in AI isn't the chatbot. It's the loop that never stops running.