The Spiral Knows What Ring You’re In

Per-revolution PRD-to-SRS gates, maturity-aware agent execution, and why the production surface is off-limits to new code Every engineering team I have spoken with in the past two years has the same problem. AI-assisted development is fast: faster than anyone predicted, faster than the process can absorb. Agents generate confidently. They decompose tasks, write services, wire … Read more

Every Major Merge Commit Has a MRD-PRD-SRS Chain: Giving Agent Harnesses the Chain They Cannot Infer

As engineering teams embrace agent harnesses, velocity is picking up, but only with the senior engineers. The junior engineers are struggling, and so are the agents. The reason is the same in both cases. What is killing us is the translation from product intent to implementable software requirements. This matters because there are many possible … Read more

Your Toolchain Has Never Met Your Agent. That’s the Problem

The agent hung. Same error. Three times. I closed the IDE, reopened it, and watched it hang again. At some point I stopped blaming the agent and asked a different question. If this were a new hire crashing the same system three times in a row, I would not let it continue. I would stop. … Read more