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Insights from the AI-first frontier.

Field notes on agentic engineering, legacy modernization, and shipping industrial-grade software in weeks — written by the team building it.

Modernization

Why your legacy modernization keeps stalling — and the AI-first fix

Most rewrites die in the gap between 'understand the old system' and 'ship the new one'. Agentic delivery closes it.

PN
Priya Nair
Oct 2 · 7 min read
Product

Inside OrbitAI: orchestrating specialized agents across the build

A look under the hood at how UI, logic, data, and QA agents coordinate — and where humans stay firmly in the loop.

AR
Arjun Rao
Sep 24 · 8 min read
Methodology

From six weeks to production: the sprint-to-scale playbook

The exact cadence we use to take an idea to industrial-grade software in six weeks, broken down week by week.

ML
Marcus Lee
Sep 15 · 6 min read
Engineering

Human-in-the-loop: governing AI-generated code at enterprise scale

Speed without governance is a liability. How we keep audit trails, reviews, and accountability intact at agent speed.

SW
Sara Whitman
Sep 6 · 9 min read
Industry

FinTech compliance in an AI-first build pipeline

SOC 2, PCI, and SCIM don't have to slow you down. Building compliance into the pipeline instead of bolting it on.

DP
Devin Park
Aug 28 · 7 min read
Design

Design-thinking meets agentic delivery

Great products still start with empathy. How design research shapes what the agents actually build.

LC
Lena Cho
Aug 19 · 5 min read
Engineering

Testing strategies for agent-generated codebases

When code is written at machine speed, your test pyramid is the safety net. What changes, and what doesn't.

AR
Arjun Rao
Aug 11 · 8 min read
Modernization

The strangler-fig pattern, revisited for the AI era

Incremental migration is still the right call. Agents just let you run far more strangler branches in parallel.

PN
Priya Nair
Aug 3 · 6 min read
Product

Shipping trust: how we measure quality beyond test coverage

Coverage is table stakes. The signals we actually watch to know an AI-first build is production-ready.

ML
Marcus Lee
Jul 25 · 7 min read

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