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Essays on AI-native R&D.

A six-part series on what actually changes when agents do much of the building: alignment, review, knowledge, dispatch, and the handoffs in between. Every essay can be read on its own.

Fig. 0 / The handoff taxLive

Build got 10x faster. The line didn't. Work now queues at the handoff.

01 The AI-Native Handoff Tax Why buying AI tools isn't the point and what is. Interactive figure3 min read 02 What Alignment Looks Like on an AI-Native Team We cut our standup down to almost nothing, and alignment got better. Interactive figure4 min read 03 The AI-Native Two-Way Build: When the Owner Ships Our PMs and designers started opening pull requests, and we had to figure out where the line is. Interactive figure4 min read 04 Review on an AI-Native Team: A Loop, Not a Gate When everyone can open a PR, review can't stay a person waiting for a free afternoon. Interactive figure4 min read 05 On an AI-Native Team, Knowledge Lives in the Repo The standards, the review taste, the "how we do things", we moved it out of people's heads. Interactive figure4 min read 06 The AI-Native Manager Stops Assigning Work If the system routes the work and holds the standards, the manager's job is what's left. Interactive figure4 min read