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- Aug 11, 2026 The Champion Trap: When Your Best Stakeholder Sends the Build in the Wrong Direction A global music label spent two months building an AI workflow around how accounts payable was supposed to work. Then the operators showed them how it actually worked.
- Aug 7, 2026 Agent Quality Is a Loop Engineering Problem Why enterprises need bounded, observable, and governed improvement loops for production AI agents, and how the open-source ASSERT framework engineers the half of the loop everything else depends on.
- Aug 5, 2026 The New Role of the Senior Engineer in an Autonomous Development Workflow Part II - Governing Codebase-Wide Change: When agents can refactor an entire system, the pull request stops being the unit of control. Senior engineers govern the transformation as a program.
- Jul 28, 2026 The New Role of the Senior Engineer in an Autonomous Development Workflow Part I: The Senior Engineer Stops Being the Fastest Coder
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