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Building with AI agents, written up from the inside: the lifecycle, the gates that hold it together, and the numbers from the logs. New notes land as the work does.

July 22, 2026 · 6 minute read

Where the saved hours go

DX's Q2 report and Atlassian's State of Teams survey measured the AI efficiency paradox: hours saved, output up, outcomes flat. The gates from the five-week field note are what the fix looks like at one-person scale.

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July 21, 2026 · 9 minute read

The exhilarating pace of AI-driven development, experienced firsthand

AWS named the AI-Driven Development Life Cycle and described the ideal. This is the Tuesday version: one person, a fleet of agents, 46 projects in five weeks, and the three gates whose scars made the speed survivable.

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