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"2026-05-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d9-f61b-72c3-ac1f-23dac5f41d84", "title": "The Orchestration Bet", "url": "https://rywalker.com/orchestration-bet-not-agent", "published_at": "2026-05-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d9-f61b-72c3-ac1f-23dac6d7e619", "title": "Agents Are About to Break Out of Engineering", "url": "https://rywalker.com/agents-beyond-engineering", "published_at": "2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d9-f61b-72c3-ac1f-23dac76cf669", "title": "The Agent Harness Problem", "url": "https://rywalker.com/agent-harness-problem", "published_at": "2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

The engineering constraint has moved original ↗

25 Sept 2026

Win at One Thing Before You Become a Platform original ↗

3 Aug 2026

Where the Agent Runs Is a Product Decision original ↗

2 Aug 2026

The Weekly Progress Email Is an Artifact, Not Bureaucracy original ↗

1 Aug 2026

You Are Underspending on Tokens, Not Overspending original ↗

31 Jul 2026

Synchronous Cloud Development Is the Next Wave original ↗

30 Jul 2026

Running Out of Tokens Is a Buy Signal original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Generation Is Solved. Merging Is Not original ↗

28 Jul 2026

Review Needs a Computer, Not a Diff original ↗

27 Jul 2026

The Report Is Coming Back original ↗

26 Jul 2026

Merging Code Nobody Understands Is the Real Risk original ↗

25 Jul 2026

Developers Want Raw Access, Not a Wrapper original ↗

25 Jul 2026

Build the Infrastructure, Not the Harness original ↗

24 Jul 2026

Hourly Billing Cannot Survive Agents original ↗

23 Jul 2026

Facts Rot. Reports Supersede. Build Memory Accordingly original ↗

22 Jul 2026

Every CTO Is Asking How to Move Engineering Work to the Cloud original ↗

21 Jul 2026

Don't Build the Eleventh CLI original ↗

20 Jul 2026

Get the Credentials Off the Laptop original ↗

19 Jul 2026

The Cowboy Developer Era Is Ending original ↗

18 Jul 2026

The Commit History Outlives the Veterans original ↗

17 Jul 2026

Start Agent Work in the Channel, Not the Terminal original ↗

16 Jul 2026

Agents Give the Signal Humans Are Too Polite to Send original ↗

16 Jul 2026

The Slowest Part of Your Agent Is the Git Clone original ↗

15 Jul 2026

The Agent Owner Is a New Job, and It Is Not Engineering original ↗

14 Jul 2026

Agent Leverage Needs an Owner original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Your Agent Instructions Are Rotting original ↗

12 Jul 2026

No Human Should See the PR Until It Has Been Beat Up original ↗

11 Jul 2026

Spend Two Tokens Defending Code for Every One You Spend Writing It original ↗

10 Jul 2026

The Three Services That Sell an Agent Platform original ↗

9 Jul 2026

Stop Re-Deriving the Same Facts original ↗

8 Jul 2026

Services Should Prepare Customers for Your Product, Not Compete With It original ↗

7 Jul 2026

Software Factories Run on Pre-Prod original ↗

7 Jul 2026

Review the Session, Not Just the Diff original ↗

6 Jul 2026

Review Is Not a Feature. It Is the Interface to Agent Work original ↗

5 Jul 2026

Price for Adoption First, Profit Later original ↗

4 Jul 2026

The IDE Is Going Away, and the Cloud Is Where Agents Run original ↗

3 Jul 2026

The Real Product Is the Graph, Not the Interface original ↗

2 Jul 2026

The Fifth Inning and the First original ↗

1 Jul 2026

With AI, Everybody Is an Engineer original ↗

30 Jun 2026

Remote Teams Run on Written Decisions, Not Hallway Conversations original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Code Became Ephemeral, and Quality Became Blast Radius original ↗

28 Jun 2026

Determinism Is a Bandage for a Bad Agent Loop original ↗

28 Jun 2026

The Calendar Is a Legacy Orchestration Layer original ↗

27 Jun 2026

Awareness Is the Hardest Problem, and Content Is the Secret Weapon original ↗

26 Jun 2026

Give an Agent a Real Computer and It Stops Being a Coding Tool original ↗

25 Jun 2026

Investing in the Wrong Part of the Harness Is the Real Mistake original ↗

24 Jun 2026

Wrap the Product in Services Until the Buyer Catches Up original ↗

23 Jun 2026

A Real VM Is the Primitive for Cloud Coding Agents original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Tool Sprawl Is the Hidden Tax on Every Agent You Run original ↗

21 Jun 2026

Self-Hosted Is Where the Real Pull Is original ↗

20 Jun 2026

The Proof of Concept Ends When Trust Begins original ↗

19 Jun 2026

The Reversion to Internal Software Has Started original ↗

19 Jun 2026

The Orchestrator Is Where Your Tokens Go to Die original ↗

18 Jun 2026

The Operator Should Own the Agent, Not the Developer original ↗

17 Jun 2026

The First Agent You Should Ship Is the Operational Discipline Layer original ↗

16 Jun 2026

Help Them In-House It, Don't Sell Them Another SaaS original ↗

15 Jun 2026

The Individual Contributor Picks the Model, and That Is the Cost Problem original ↗

14 Jun 2026

Give the Young Hire Four Jobs in Two Years original ↗

13 Jun 2026

Hire the Engineer Who Wants to Sell original ↗

12 Jun 2026

You Cannot Measure Progress on Work You Never Defined original ↗

11 Jun 2026

When Building Is Cheap, GTM Is the Only Edge original ↗

10 Jun 2026

Kill the MCP, Ship the CLI original ↗

10 Jun 2026

The Bot Is the Container. The Agents Are the Work original ↗

9 Jun 2026

Amplify the Tools They Already Trust original ↗

8 Jun 2026

Ship the Agent Specs as Code, Not as Database Rows original ↗

7 Jun 2026

Your Real Competitor Is the Internal Build original ↗

6 Jun 2026

Prototype on MCP, Productionize in Code original ↗

5 Jun 2026

Your Agent Pipeline Is Missing the Back Edge original ↗

4 Jun 2026

The In-House Tool Dies When Its Builder Leaves original ↗

3 Jun 2026

The Chaos in Coding Agents Is Our Friend original ↗

2 Jun 2026

Everything Was an AWS Wrapper Too original ↗

2 Jun 2026

Buy the Integration Until It Breaks original ↗

1 Jun 2026

The Bot Is the Interface. The Agents Are the Units original ↗

31 May 2026

Your Agents Will Find the Dirty Data First original ↗

30 May 2026

The Single Pane of Glass Is a Custom App, Not a Chat Window original ↗

29 May 2026

Own the Compute Layer or Pay Someone Else's Margin Forever original ↗

28 May 2026

The Forward-Deployed Engineer Is the Wedge original ↗

27 May 2026

Controllability Beats Magic Every Time original ↗

26 May 2026

Cloud Dev Environments Are the Unlock for Parallel Agent Work original ↗

25 May 2026

The Agent Lab Replaces the Agent Deploy original ↗

24 May 2026

Agents Start Broken and That Is the Point original ↗

24 May 2026

The Agent as ERP Is Not a Metaphor original ↗

23 May 2026

The 4X Mandate Without a Measuring Stick original ↗

22 May 2026

What I Learned Shutting Down OSSRank original ↗

21 May 2026

Follow No Goose Absolutely original ↗

20 May 2026

Because I Had To original ↗

19 May 2026

The Long Game in Agent Companies original ↗

18 May 2026

Provocatypes Over Roadmaps original ↗

17 May 2026

Agents in Production: GTM Mesh and the Death of the ERP original ↗

16 May 2026

The Human Is No Longer the Integration Layer original ↗

15 May 2026

Pluck a Feather From Each Goose original ↗

15 May 2026

From Agent to Platform: Why the GTM Is Services-Shaped original ↗

14 May 2026

The Zero-Stickiness Problem at the Tool Layer original ↗

13 May 2026

The Pilot Is the Product original ↗

12 May 2026

The Design Partner Discipline original ↗

11 May 2026

Start With the Pain, Not the Platform original ↗

10 May 2026

The Real Product Is What Replaces Homegrown original ↗

9 May 2026

The Orchestration Bet original ↗

8 May 2026

Agents Are About to Break Out of Engineering original ↗

7 May 2026

The Agent Harness Problem original ↗

6 May 2026