Have We Finally Solved the Software Crisis?
AI agents have made code cheaper to write than ever. But the software crisis of 1968 didn't disappear; it moved. On planning honestly, keeping stakeholders aligned, and letting results earn the estimate.
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AI agents have made code cheaper to write than ever. But the software crisis of 1968 didn't disappear; it moved. On planning honestly, keeping stakeholders aligned, and letting results earn the estimate.
After two and a half years of tool churn, one engineer stopped asking how to write a better prompt and started asking how to design a team. He no longer writes a single line of code. The team does.
Coding agents have accelerated delivery, but acceleration without direction doesn't get you to your goals faster. How Procurify's DevSecOps team learned to keep agentic work aligned to strategy.
The hard part of a multi-agent system is rarely the agents themselves. Why we built our first agentic capability as a platform layer, and why restraint is the design principle that makes it work.
Agents generate code faster than ever, but humans still have to review it. Three established practices that reduce the context burden on your reviewers.