CI/CD Maturity in the Age of Agentic Engineering
How a small high-throughput team can evolve from CI to continuous delivery to selective continuous deployment without outrunning its safety systems
Topic
Culture
15 cairns tagged "culture"
Please Do Not Worship the Robot
A theatrical reminder that Q is useful because the team makes him show his work
What Q Can Help With
A practical map of Q's Slack, repo, Notion, Google Workspace, and GitHub capabilities
Using Q from Slack
How to ask for help, what to expect, and where the observer sandbox draws the line
Runbooks Are Interfaces
How to write operational instructions that humans and agents can both execute
The Status Light
How Q announces maintenance, checks for active work, and proves it came back online
Where the Work Lives
Coordinating between GitHub and beads, for the people doing the planning and the people doing the building
The Work That Writes Itself
Why we built Conduit, and what it gives the team that nothing else did
AI-Native Engineering: Can You Migrate Incrementally?
Why bolting agents onto an unchanged SDLC plateaus at 5–20%, and how the 10x teams rebuilt their operating model
How We Build Here
What's changed about writing production software, and what this trail is going to teach you
From Plan to Pull Request: A Day on Strike
One realistic feature, end to end, with every prior cairn put to work
Codex as Second Opinion
When a single model is bluffing or stuck, a second model is the cheapest unblock available
Claude Code as Daily Driver
The agent harness most of us reach for first, what we run inside it, and the alternatives that are perfectly fine
The Weekend Knowledge Base
Building a self-improving knowledge system from zero in under 8 hours of actual effort — and what that says about internal tooling in 2026
The Quiet Teammate
What Happens When an AI Agent Picks Up the Work Nobody Owns