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Notes on product ownership for teams running coding agents.

26 October 20266 min read

The GitHub Copilot coding agent turns an issue into a pull request well. Specifying the issue and judging the result both stay with the team.

Scaling AI adoption in engineering beyond one team

26 October 20266 min read

Scaling AI adoption past the pilot means copying what made the first team work, a measured backlog, an owner and review time, not its configuration.

25 October 20266 min read

Done vs deployed comes down to where each criterion can be checked. For anything a user sees, merged is a step on the way, not the finish line.

25 October 20267 min read

MCP server security comes down to what each tool can change, how narrowly its tokens are scoped, and whether its tool descriptions can shift later.

24 October 20266 min read

A burndown chart counts work when it closes. With agents, work closes at review, so the line sits flat for days and then drops off a cliff.

24 October 20266 min read

Useful AI commit messages record why a change was made, which work item it served and that an agent wrote it. Restating the diff helps nobody.