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Notes from shipping software with AI
For engineering leaders who want AI-assisted delivery they can check. Written from our own work, not from the sidelines.
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- AI agents (13)
- AI Coding Agents (1)
- AI delivery (88)
- AI Delivery Programme (12)
- AI Workflow Audit (2)
- Architecture Review (2)
- Laravel (1)
- MVP to Production (1)
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Review capacity
The review queue is the bottleneck AI coding created
Why more code did not mean more shipped, and where the queue actually forms.
Instruction drift
Agent instruction drift in enterprise AI teams
How every developer ends up with a different AI, and what a shared rule set changes.
What was tested
AI coding checkpoint contract: make checks reproducible
What “tested” should mean before a pull request is allowed to say it.
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How do you know AI-generated code is production-ready?
Challenge production-ready AI code claims with evidence for behaviour, boundaries, deployment, monitoring, recovery and ownership.
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How do you review AI-generated code without losing control?
Review AI-generated code with author-first verification, small pull requests, trustworthy tests and evidence tied to the final commit.
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How should a lead handle engineers who refuse AI coding tools?
Find out what each refusal is about, write down what every change must meet whatever tool produced it, watch for shared files and workload…
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Should we rewrite a legacy system with AI, and how do we prove it still behaves the same?
Use AI to speed up a narrow, checkable migration, not as the reason to rewrite, and prove equivalence from the old system: characterisation tests,…
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Can AI coding tools help on a legacy codebase nobody fully understands?
Where AI coding tools help on an old, many-handed codebase (reading, mapping, drafting notes, pinning behaviour with tests), where they make things worse, and…
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Staff use personal AI accounts with company data: how do you get control without a ban?
A ban moves AI use to phones and home laptops. Inventory what people use and why, offer an approved business route that is easier…