Descope by Context, Not by Headcount
When your team is overloaded, don't descope by task count. Hand off the work that costs the least context to lose, not the biggest item on the board.
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When your team is overloaded, don't descope by task count. Hand off the work that costs the least context to lose, not the biggest item on the board.
Hard limits for AI agents belong in code, not the prompt: the model reads prompt rules and breaks them. Plus the deny-by-default trap that does nothing.
AI made finding code issues free, but owning the fix still needs a human. Why finding throughput is a vanity metric and the hand-back is the real work.
Engineering teams reward complexity by accident because simplicity leaves no artifact. Four ways a manager can make avoided complexity visible.
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.