I open a screen full of terminals, each in a different repository. Each one is one of my AI assistants, ready to accept tasks. I usually have two or three running at the same time, thinking, planning and acting. It looks like a scene from a hacker film. It is not — the repos are almost entirely Markdown. Three layers, and only one is disposableEvery AI assistant I run is set up the same way.

In the AI era attention is the new gold and this is a good argument against reducing headcount. You need a pool of attention that is going to be available to run all the items in your roadmap very fast.

I have to admit… AI has made Jira finally bearable…

Every week is 2% of a year

We knew time to market was a priority and wanted to shield the team from noise.

Procrastinators and blockers favor speed and immediacy over accuracy and constancy. Are generally more concerned about trying to manage short-term comfort than long-term effectiveness in solving important problems. So, to control their emotions, they procrastinate and block. https://brunopedro.com/

Estimations are useful in high level discussions about feasibility and underlying technical complexities (like, is this a week or a month, and why?), and also to be able to make trade-offs between quick wins and larger investments. But estimating down to the story point or man-hour is a huge waste of everyone’s time and sanity.