Context Clues
How to keep AI agents building what matters, not just what compiles.
- No. 46Context, comparedNine ways teams give coding agents context, scored against what independent research says a solution has to do.12 min
- No. 45Path dependenceThe choice your agent makes on the first day does not stay a choice.8 min
- No. 44Goodhart’s lawWhen the score becomes the goal, green tests stop telling you whether the product is right.12 min
- No. 43Gell-Mann amnesiaYou catch the agent’s mistakes where you are an expert and trust it everywhere else.9 min
- No. 42Tacit knowledgeSome of what your team knows cannot be written down, only shown.9 min
- No. 41Principal and agentEconomics spent fifty years on agents whose interests differed from yours.9 min
- No. 40The default answerWhen the same model hands you the same answer three times, it looks like consensus.9 min
- No. 39The whole productProduct-led growth gets you into one team. The whole product is what lets you spread through an enterprise.12 min
- No. 38Chesterton’s fenceDeleting has become nearly free. Understanding what you are deleting has not, and that gap is widening.8 min
- No. 37Survivorship biasWhy the evidence that decides your product is the evidence your dashboards structurally cannot show you.7 min
- No. 36Four risksYour coding agent has mastered one of the four risks that decide whether a product works.7 min
- No. 35Common knowledgeWhy a fact everyone already knows can change everything the moment somebody says it out loud.6 min
- No. 33Productivity is not valueWhy record AI spend and reported productivity gains still do not add up to visible business value, and what the missing measurement is really about.8 min
- No. 28Everyone Is a Builder NowProduct management is dead.6 min
- No. 25On TasteOr, tech companies try to speedrun philosophy.9 min
- No. 14I Almost Built the Wrong ThingI almost built Brief as a meeting bot that simulated product reviews.9 min
- No. 13Why Do Tools for Product Managers Suck?PM tools fail because they track the how and ignore the why.10 min
- No. 11The Future is the Product DeveloperThe boundary between product, engineering, and design is dissolving.7 min
- No. 10Quarterly Planning is DeadQuarterly planning worked when shipping a meaningful change took months.9 min
- No. 8Remote Killed the Shoulder Tap. AI is Breaking It Again.How structured context became the new shoulder tap10 min
- No. 5Product Management Has a Velocity ProblemWhen code is cheap, product judgment becomes the constraint5 min
- No. 4What PMs Actually Need (vs. What We Keep Building for Them)Product managers are drowning in metrics and workflows, but what they really need is clarity, better tools for expressing ideas, and alignment with engineering and company decision-making.6 min