Essays on delivery in the age of AI
Producing things is now instant. Landing them is not. Judgment, sequencing, accountability and trust still move at human speed, and they decide whether any of the speed is worth anything.
That remainder is the slow layer. This is writing about it.
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Every recovery I have walked into had the same giveaway: someone knew before the steering committee did. The cost sits in the gap between those two days.
September 1, 2026 · 4 min read
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Most developers don't fully trust AI-generated code. Fewer than half verify it before it ships. More automated testing is the obvious fix, and it treats the symptom.
When Copilot is the only tool available, adoption hits 68 percent. Give people a free choice and it falls to 8. The dashboard was never measuring what we thought.
AI took away the grace period bad delivery used to get. The failure mode hasn't changed. Only the amount of warning before it costs something.
The four pillars
The spine of everything here. The months before go-live: scope, sequencing, vendors, and what actually breaks.
What happens after go-live. Usage, resistance, and the gap between a rollout and real use.
Decision rights, ownership and risk, at the altitude of the person writing acceptance criteria.
The honesty of status reporting, and what velocity still means when half the work is agent-generated.
Long-form thinking on delivery, adoption, governance and reporting, sent when there is something worth saying.