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Effective automation focuses on four categories: work we value but don't enjoy, work requiring precision beyond human consistency, work crossing system boundaries, and work operating at inhuman scale. GitHub's deployment automation exemplifies this approach.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Effective automation focuses on four categories: work we value but don't enjoy, work requiring precision beyond human consistency, work crossing system boundaries, and work operating at inhuman scale. GitHub's deployment automation exemplifies this approach.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Start small with repetitive manual tasks that follow predictable patterns. Build automation capability iteratively. Each success creates a foundation for more sophisticated automation. Organizations developing capabilities now will leverage advancing AI best.
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itrev.io/47WGagX
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Start small with repetitive manual tasks that follow predictable patterns. Build automation capability iteratively. Each success creates a foundation for more sophisticated automation. Organizations developing capabilities now will leverage advancing AI best.
itrev.io/47WGagX
itrev.io/47WGagX
If you've read Progressive Delivery, consider taking a few minutes to rate or review on Amazon or other sites. These reviews really help more readers find the book, and we appreciate the support!
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If you've read Progressive Delivery, consider taking a few minutes to rate or review on Amazon or other sites. These reviews really help more readers find the book, and we appreciate the support!
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Automation without abundance leads to over-optimization of wrong things. Automation without autonomy creates rigid systems. Automation without alignment executes misguided strategies efficiently. The four pillars must work together.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Automation without abundance leads to over-optimization of wrong things. Automation without autonomy creates rigid systems. Automation without alignment executes misguided strategies efficiently. The four pillars must work together.
itrev.io/47WGagX
itrev.io/47WGagX
AWS's most sophisticated automation addresses social challenges. Automated policy enforcement lets hundreds of teams maintain autonomy while ensuring they can't violate safety constraints. This eliminates coordination bottlenecks at scale.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
AWS's most sophisticated automation addresses social challenges. Automated policy enforcement lets hundreds of teams maintain autonomy while ensuring they can't violate safety constraints. This eliminates coordination bottlenecks at scale.
itrev.io/47WGagX
itrev.io/47WGagX
The goal isn't eliminating people. It's eliminating toil. Humans excel at context and judgment calls. Automation excels at consistent execution and inhuman scale. Progressive Delivery leverages both strengths for capabilities greater than either alone.
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itrev.io/47WGagX
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The goal isn't eliminating people. It's eliminating toil. Humans excel at context and judgment calls. Automation excels at consistent execution and inhuman scale. Progressive Delivery leverages both strengths for capabilities greater than either alone.
itrev.io/47WGagX
itrev.io/47WGagX
Netflix analyzes viewing patterns for hundreds of millions of users in real-time. No human team could possibly do this. This is sophisticated automation—not making human work faster, but creating capabilities that only exist at machine scale.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Netflix analyzes viewing patterns for hundreds of millions of users in real-time. No human team could possibly do this. This is sophisticated automation—not making human work faster, but creating capabilities that only exist at machine scale.
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itrev.io/47WGagX
The organizations that build effective standards for human-AI collaboration will fundamentally change what software teams are capable of achieving. The transformation is already underway.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The organizations that build effective standards for human-AI collaboration will fundamentally change what software teams are capable of achieving. The transformation is already underway.
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The paradox that makes perfect sense: automation enables greater autonomy, not less. By automating predictable work, human judgment focuses on creative and strategic aspects.
Disney's Imagineers can focus on storytelling because ride timing is automated.
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Disney's Imagineers can focus on storytelling because ride timing is automated.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The paradox that makes perfect sense: automation enables greater autonomy, not less. By automating predictable work, human judgment focuses on creative and strategic aspects.
Disney's Imagineers can focus on storytelling because ride timing is automated.
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Disney's Imagineers can focus on storytelling because ride timing is automated.
itrev.io/47WGagX
Imagine collapsing your software organization into a single person who handles front-end, back-end, database design, and deployment. No waiting. No miscommunication. That's the economic force driving vibe coding adoption.
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itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Imagine collapsing your software organization into a single person who handles front-end, back-end, database design, and deployment. No waiting. No miscommunication. That's the economic force driving vibe coding adoption.
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itrev.io/4o2X0kt
AWS deploys thousands of changes daily across 117 availability zones. The secret? Automation sophisticated enough to absorb complexity while preserving human judgment for decisions that truly matter. At scale, this becomes not just desirable but essential.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
AWS deploys thousands of changes daily across 117 availability zones. The secret? Automation sophisticated enough to absorb complexity while preserving human judgment for decisions that truly matter. At scale, this becomes not just desirable but essential.
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Autonomous doesn't mean isolated. It means unblocked—free to be fast, ambitious, and creative without negotiating every step. That's what happens when vibe coding decouples work from rigid dependency chains.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Autonomous doesn't mean isolated. It means unblocked—free to be fast, ambitious, and creative without negotiating every step. That's what happens when vibe coding decouples work from rigid dependency chains.
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Rules drift. Best practices evolve. What worked last quarter might be obsolete today. Kim and Yegge recommend carving out significant time every day to curate prompt files and context for AI agents. This housekeeping keeps context razor-sharp.
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itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Rules drift. Best practices evolve. What worked last quarter might be obsolete today. Kim and Yegge recommend carving out significant time every day to curate prompt files and context for AI agents. This housekeeping keeps context razor-sharp.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
When one developer discovers a retry pattern that eliminates 90% of failures, that insight should propagate instantly. Living documentation makes local discoveries available everywhere. That's the power of shared standards.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
When one developer discovers a retry pattern that eliminates 90% of failures, that insight should propagate instantly. Living documentation makes local discoveries available everywhere. That's the power of shared standards.
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itrev.io/4o2X0kt
If you've had a chance to read Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge, it would help us and the authors if you post your thoughts in an Amazon review. These reviews (or even just ratings) really help new readers find books.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you've had a chance to read Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge, it would help us and the authors if you post your thoughts in an Amazon review. These reviews (or even just ratings) really help new readers find books.
itrev.io/4rh9doA
itrev.io/4rh9doA
Three tiers keep teams aligned: org-wide rules (security, testing), team conventions (naming, frameworks), and project-specific prompts (Vitest, tab indentation). Store them as Markdown in version control. Individual configs fragment the kitchen.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Three tiers keep teams aligned: org-wide rules (security, testing), team conventions (naming, frameworks), and project-specific prompts (Vitest, tab indentation). Store them as Markdown in version control. Individual configs fragment the kitchen.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
Robotic surgery eliminated apprenticeships in operating rooms. Software is following the same pattern. As AI makes full-stack competence feasible, leaders need to create new paths for junior developers to become senior ones.
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itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Robotic surgery eliminated apprenticeships in operating rooms. Software is following the same pattern. As AI makes full-stack competence feasible, leaders need to create new paths for junior developers to become senior ones.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
The challenge: making standards comprehensive enough to be useful but concise enough that humans and AI can actually follow them. Kim and Yegge argue this requires daily curation, not set-and-forget rules.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The challenge: making standards comprehensive enough to be useful but concise enough that humans and AI can actually follow them. Kim and Yegge argue this requires daily curation, not set-and-forget rules.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
Progressive Delivery creates alignment through shared understanding of user needs and outcomes, not internal processes. Teams coordinate around user value. From Progressive Delivery by Governor, Harrison, Waterhouse, and Zimman.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Progressive Delivery creates alignment through shared understanding of user needs and outcomes, not internal processes. Teams coordinate around user value. From Progressive Delivery by Governor, Harrison, Waterhouse, and Zimman.
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
Before electrification, every factory machine was coupled to a single driveshaft. Electricity decoupled that dependency. Vibe coding is doing the same thing for software teams—eliminating rigid handoffs between specialists.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Before electrification, every factory machine was coupled to a single driveshaft. Electricity decoupled that dependency. Vibe coding is doing the same thing for software teams—eliminating rigid handoffs between specialists.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
Alignment with stakeholders ensures organizational support. Alignment with constituents ensures actual value delivery. Medical records software needs both: execs and IT directors for support, but also nurses, patients, families, clerks, and auditors for real impact.
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Alignment with stakeholders ensures organizational support. Alignment with constituents ensures actual value delivery. Medical records software needs both: execs and IT directors for support, but also nurses, patients, families, clerks, and auditors for real impact.
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
PRDs are dying. Test plans feel bloated. The new coordination artifact is a living document where product owners, designers, and developers work simultaneously—asking the repo questions and getting executable prototypes as answers.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
PRDs are dying. Test plans feel bloated. The new coordination artifact is a living document where product owners, designers, and developers work simultaneously—asking the repo questions and getting executable prototypes as answers.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
Toyota calls it "standard work." Google achieves it through their monolithic repo. Kim and Yegge show how vibe coding teams need the same discipline—capturing best practices and making them instantly accessible to humans and AI alike.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Toyota calls it "standard work." Google achieves it through their monolithic repo. Kim and Yegge show how vibe coding teams need the same discipline—capturing best practices and making them instantly accessible to humans and AI alike.
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
itrev.io/4o2X0kt
Implicit feedback often reveals gaps between what people say they want and what they actually need. Usage patterns and workflow analysis tell you more than surveys sometimes. That's why you need all four feedback types operating simultaneously to maintain alignment.
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Implicit feedback often reveals gaps between what people say they want and what they actually need. Usage patterns and workflow analysis tell you more than surveys sometimes. That's why you need all four feedback types operating simultaneously to maintain alignment.
itrev.io/3JDXZcK
itrev.io/3JDXZcK