My first software factory flooded the team with pull requests nobody asked for. The second one had the same problem, just with better visibility. It only started working when the team took ownership and the factory began to encode what we believe good engineering looks like.
The token bill for an AI agent is the visible 10 to 30% of what it costs. Review, supervision, rework and ownership make up the rest, and unlike a salary, almost nobody forecasts it.
A startup ran out of runway and handled the layoff badly. The engineer found out from his broker. The argument here is that the company's real output was never the platform, it was the engineers it built, and no month of handover meetings can transfer that.
Becoming AI-native in three years does not need a three-year technology roadmap. It needs a usage policy, a map of your data, one bounded experiment, and both the enthusiasts and the sceptics in the room. Build the ability to change, not the overhaul.
A practical guide to evaluating fractional CTO providers in Belgium: the three criteria that matter most, how the four provider types differ, what an engagement should cost, and when a full-time hire is the better call.
CTOs who built their company's survival by doing everything can't escape that role by scheduling a holiday. Moving from doing to enabling is a skill and identity shift at once. One thing handed off permanently is where the exit starts.
We smile at the 18th-century crowd for being swept up by a box with a man inside, yet today it's easy to hand ChatGPT a vague idea and treat the PRD it returns as gospel. Generative AI is genuinely powerful. We get the best from it when we bring both enthusiasm and a critical eye.
Conductor by Melty Labs makes parallel agent workflows practical by running multiple agents with separate tasks simultaneously. The trade-offs are real but manageable, and this is where development is heading.
Agile was supposed to free us from bureaucracy. Many teams just rebuilt it with better branding. Now, AI-driven development is forcing the uncomfortable question: Were we ever truly agile, or just managing slow feedback loops?
AI is changing what small teams can ship, boilerplate gone, prototypes faster, experimentation cheaper. But lower costs of building don't mean lower costs of building the wrong thing. It just means you can do it faster.
AI won't make software engineers redundant. It will expose what engineering was always supposed to be about: understanding systems, not just writing code.
Here's part one of a post I shared with our team on the radical change and evolution of our jobs. AI won't make software engineers redundant. It will expose what engineering was always supposed to be about: understanding systems, not just writing code.
CTOs often come from engineering backgrounds and, particularly when newly promoted, tend to focus on what they know best, the technology. While this is understandable given their previous success, technology is rarely the hardest part of the CTO role.
AI adoption fails when treated as a tool rollout. This guide covers the decision framework, team dynamics, economics, and mistakes from 190+ technical audits.
AI coding agents draft code, write tests, and open pull requests autonomously. This guide covers the tool landscape, readiness signals, a phased rollout plan, and the team dynamics that make or break adoption.
