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Notes from the machine room.

I run agentic development as a production system, not a party trick — a work queue, subagents, worktrees, validation gates, merge, deploy. These are notes on what that actually costs, and on measuring software that gives you a different answer every time.

• 2026-09-01

  Four things that break when agents write your code

  Everyone can describe the happy path. Here is the part nobody puts in the demo: backlog starvation, unbounded queues, the five-task attention ceiling, and the discovery that verification — not generation — is the bottleneck.