Simplicity Is Invisible by Design. That Makes It a Management Problem.
Engineering teams reward complexity by accident because simplicity leaves no artifact. Four ways a manager can make avoided complexity visible.
I lead engineering teams.
Senior Engineering Manager at Staffbase — communities, mobile, and a plugin platform built for the agent era.
I ship with agents.
Specs, plans, reviews, phase gates — I manage AI agents the way I manage engineers.
I write about what that changes.
Agentic workflows, engineering leadership, and the craft in between.
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Meet APE — Agentic Product Engineering
We shipped a greenfield project in three weeks by building the system around the AI models, not the prompts. I call it APE: Agentic Product Engineering.
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AI Engineering Workflows Are Built for One Orchestrator. Here's What Breaks at Team Scale.
AI engineering workflows assume one expert orchestrator. Here's what breaks when five engineers run agent sessions on one codebase — and our fix.
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AI Coding Workflow: What Actually Worked
AI-assisted coding patterns that actually work, from months of experiments: two case studies — delegated testing and parallel review with Claude Code.
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Mastra Workflows: A Complete Guide with Code Examples
Build Mastra AI workflows step by step — parallel steps, branching, suspend/resume, multi-agent, and serverless deployment — with TypeScript examples.