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Vol. I 5 essays published
Established Dec 2023 · DRAPER UT
FEATURED case studies 9 min read 18 aug 2026

Four Months of Agentic Engineering, Measured

We cut a third of the engineering team in April and reorganized what was left around agentic development. Four months later, features shipped are up 120% and the DORA metrics are flat or better. Here is what moved, and where the costs showed up instead.

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Bar chart of features shipped per month in 2026 — 4, 5, 9, 6, 9, 18, 13,
        22 from January to August — with a line beneath showing features per engineer
        rising from 0.21 to 1.83 as team size falls from 19 to 12.
Features shipped per month, 2026. An epic counts once, at the moment it first reaches a terminal state. Bulk hygiene closes are excluded, and were more common before the shift. August is partial, through the 28th.

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003 PROCESS · 6 min

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002 INFRASTRUCTURE · 9 min

How we built an internal sandbox to safely host non-engineers' AI projects in a day

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