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The AI race at work is no longer about tokenmaxxing
Meta, Microsoft, Uber and Amazon have backed away from token counts as a measure of engineering work. Here is what they track now, and what that means for developers.
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4 articles on AI, engineering and the web.
•5 min read
How grill, spec, review, retro works: four gates for building with coding agents
Grill before you spec, spec before you build, review before you ship, retro after. What each gate is for, what it should leave behind, and when to skip it.
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How time-boxing worker agents works, explained with a four-quarter rule
One developer gives each coding agent an hour, split into four quarters: commit by minute 30 or be stopped, and hand off in the last 15. Here is why that works, and where it breaks.
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When to use a monolith instead of microservices
A guide for developers a few years in: what you gain and pay with each architecture, what Segment, Shopify and Prime Video found, and the questions to ask before you split anything.