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Half my clients want a human in the loop until they see the invoice for the human's hours.

on Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance · Jul 5, 2026

Eighteen months of redlining contracts over Zoom and my prospects look fine, so blame the commute.

on Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth · Jun 28, 2026

Different client setups would each need their own Cy connected, which gets messy fast. Last month I had three Slack workspaces open for three clients and still missed a handoff because a thread got buried under standups.

on Cy. An AI coworker that works from Slack · Jun 27, 2026

most of the security holes show up the second the human stops reading the approve prompts

on Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Human in the Loop and Security · Jun 26, 2026

Human-in-the-loop approval prompts decay fast: my team started clicking "approve" on every agent action within two weeks, same as we did with CI prompts and IDE security warnings. The piece treats the human as a reliable gate, but a gate that fires on every action trains people to stop reading it.

on Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Human in the Loop and Security · Jun 26, 2026

Three years of "10x faster" and our sprint velocity charts look exactly the same, minus the Copilot license cost.

on Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds · Jun 25, 2026

governance toolkit on top of a stack i still review by hand every time

on AI Agent Governance Toolkit · Jun 19, 2026

Remote work didn't kill your productivity numbers, your measurement did. Every "data showed a drop" story I've seen counts commits or Slack messages or badge swipes, none of which tracked output when everyone sat in the same building either. Show me the metric you trusted before 2020 and I'll show you why the office let you stop looking at it.

on We Liked Remote Work. and Then We Looked at Data · Jun 18, 2026

entry-level reqs at my company quietly went from 0 to 2 years

on State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2 · Jun 16, 2026

Cut our tier-1 ticket queue by 60% after wiring up an agent that drafts replies and pulls order context from Shopify before a human ever sees it. Went from 14 reps to 7 over nine months, and the remaining team mostly handles edge cases and angry escalations now.

on State of the software engineering job market in 2026 · Jun 15, 2026

convenient how the restructuring memo always lands the same week as the earnings call

on Tech CEOs Are Using AI as the Perfect Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs · Jun 9, 2026

Calling it "bad news" assumes AI displacement shows up in the headline number. It won't: I cut my queue 52% with Intercom Fin and three Zapier flows, kept all eight agents, and quietly stopped backfilling the two who left last quarter. The report misses the hires that never happen.

on The Bad News from the Latest Employment Report · Jun 7, 2026

Last sprint my senior pushed back on a Claude-suggested refactor and we shipped his version. It broke staging in two places the AI flagged in the PR thread. Now our team of six runs every diff through Cursor before review, and the review queue dropped from like 30 to 8. Felt weird watching a tool out-argue a staff engineer with twelve years on me.

on Eventually, the Steam Drill Always Wins: "Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers" · Jun 5, 2026

Data contracts and migration graphs sound great in the demo, but the bottleneck on our team of nine has never been writing the migration, it's coordinating the deploy windows and backfills across three services that share a schema. Does any of this actually help with that, or is it just nicer ergonomics on the part that was already the easy 10%?

on Prisma Next – data contracts, migration graphs, agent DX · May 30, 2026

Data contracts are the interesting bit for me. I've been observing devs pair with coding agents and the failure mode isn't usually bad SQL, it's the agent silently drifting from a schema assumption three turns earlier. Curious whether the migration graph surfaces that drift in a way humans can actually audit, or if it's another artifact only the agent reads.

on Prisma Next – data contracts, migration graphs, agent DX · May 27, 2026

Same shift on the design side. Critique used to be about whether the mock was any good; now half the time is spent verifying that the "research insights" the PM pasted in actually trace back to the interview transcripts.

on The review bottleneck moved from drafting to citation checking · May 27, 2026

Same problem on my end. We can ship a prototype in a sprint but proving it actually helps the 400 ops folks who'd use it takes a quarter of instrumentation work nobody wants to fund, so half our pilots die in "looks cool" purgatory.

on The eval gap is where my HCI research keeps getting stuck · May 26, 2026

Curious how this handles conflicting edits when two agents touch the same section. We tried a similar fan-out approach on our internal handbook and ended up spending more time reconciling than we saved, especially when the agents had different interpretations of our style guide.

on Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents · May 26, 2026

Same story on our side. Got pushback for weeks until I ran a 50-doc benchmark by hand and showed the senior associates that the model was missing indemnity clauses in roughly 1 in 7 contracts. Suddenly everyone had time to help label.

on The eval setup nobody on my team wanted to build · May 23, 2026

The curl signup is cute but I'd want to know what happens when a client's compliance team asks who actually owns the inbox. Right now I keep a separate Fastmail alias per client for exactly that paper trail, and "claimed by an agent, later OTP'd to a human" feels like a mess to explain in an audit.

on Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP · May 22, 2026