A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.

There’s no playbook yet for scaling the adoption of augmented and then agentic AI in the SDLC. But there are patterns emerging from the CTOs who are actually doing it. I finally needed somewhere to share insights from the monthly gather.dev CTO events in NY, SF and

Our brave new world is just weird. Gave my agentic head of engineering a music back story to keep things interesting. Wanted a bumper for an upcoming podcast and here's what she said :) "I could write you something and you could find someone to record it. I know exactly what a

A balanced look at the potential SaaSpocalypse Specific traits of SaaS companies likely to survive, and the real reasons to consider dumping your SaaS gatherdev.substack.com/p/a-balanced-l… What do you think?!

From two pizza teams to triads? Two pizza teams made sense when coordination was the bottleneck. When agents handle the coordination, you might only need three people per team. Short Dominos. gatherdev.substack.com/p/from-two-piz… Thoughts?

Flattening the agentic engineering org If agents can do the coordination work that middle managers used to do, what happens to the org chart? It gets a lot flatter. And that changes everything about how you structure an engineering team. gatherdev.substack.com/p/flattening-t… Thoughts?

Blocks cuts weren't about AI, but Atlassian, Meta, Pinterest? More to come . . . :( gatherdev.substack.com/p/blocks-layof… Thoughts?

For anyone not there yet - simplest productivity hack for working with AI: talk to it. Voice input changes how you think, how you prompt, and how fast you move. gatherdev.substack.com/p/talk-dont-ty… What are you using?

If you're an engineering leader, Have you Had Your Claude Code Moment Yet? If you haven’t spent a half day pairing with an agentic coding tool, cancel some meetings and do it this week. There’s a before and after and it will materially impact your AI adoption strategy.

1M token context window? Doesn’t matter. Push past ~50% and your brilliant AI intern starts acting like someone who pulled two all-nighters on Adderall. Context management is the job now. gatherdev.substack.com/p/context-and-… Thoughts?

Great article by Chris Richardson pointing out that in a complex domain (cynefin framework) software factories need to tolerate variability and ambiguity with layered guard rails and a focus on continual learning - microservices.io/post/architect…

How to build a software factory Examples and an action plan if you're not yet building your agentic army :) gatherdev.substack.com/p/how-to-build… What are you building?!

Management by press release It's working for Jack, Tobi and Will at WHOOP . . . gatherdev.substack.com/p/management-b… Thoughts?

Not everyone needs to become an AI engineer In a world where engineers building software factories can deliver an unreasonable amount of code, it can be easy to think that all we need is more AI engineers who can build agentic harnesses. My guess is that in the future, we’ll see

How many engineers should you have? Fewer, more and different . . . gatherdev.substack.com/p/how-many-eng… Thoughts?

Anyone looking at Elixir/Erlang for building their LLM orchestrator? I love the things I get for free (and I can't afford something like Temporal as a solopreneur) Please comment or ping me if you'd be open to comparing notes :)

Anyone else finding the Conductor Mac app is getting flaky if you have even just 5-8 sessions with long transcripts? Any favorite alternatives for simply spawning claude code sessions in worktrees with easy tabbing between them?

Off to #kubecon - ping me if you’ll be in Amsterdam this week!

Someone just won LinkedIn - my favorite headline I've seen for a CEO there "CEO who hits Claude Code usage limits before breakfast" :) linkedin.com/in/marcodellat…