Autonomy Is a Dial, Not a Ladder
Chatbot, human-in-the-loop, agentic workflow, and full autonomy aren't stages you graduate through — they're positions you choose per task, and the vendors selling autonomy keep telling you not to default to it.
Chatbot, human-in-the-loop, agentic workflow, and full autonomy aren't stages you graduate through — they're positions you choose per task, and the vendors selling autonomy keep telling you not to default to it.
Research, Plan, Implement, Verify is just the ordinary shape of software work, finally said out loud — and the spec/plan mix-up inside it is costing teams more than they realize.
AI is collapsing the barriers between product, design, engineering, and DevOps. The teams that figure this out first will ship faster with fewer people — but only if taste and judgment come with the territory.