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Frameworks and case studies for the evolution of product development. From AI-assisted to AI-operated.
Frameworks
Maturity models for product builders
DORA and SPACE in the AI Age
How traditional software delivery and developer productivity frameworks must adapt for AI-assisted development. Introducing AI-DORA and AI-SPACE: modified metrics for the era of AI product builders.
LLM-as-a-Judge
A practitioner's guide to replacing human code review with LLM-based evaluation, multi-judge aggregation, and VEAL loop integration for continuous validation.
Loop Engineering
A practitioner's guide to designing self-running AI coding agents with Claude Code, Codex CLI, and the REAL/VEAL loop patterns for production multi-agent systems.
Product Builder Maturity Model
A maturity model defining growth toward independent product ownership, with paths for both Product Managers and Engineers converging at the Product Builder level.
Software Delivery Autonomy Levels
A seven-level progression from traditional Agile teams to autonomous software delivery and operations, introducing ASDM for autonomous coding, review, validation, and operations.
Spec-Driven Development
A comprehensive guide to spec-driven development (SDD) methodologies and tools for AI coding agents, including GitHub SpecKit, AWS Kiro, AI-DLC Workflows, OpenSpec, and VisionSpec.
Case Studies
Real-world implementations of AI-native development
Project Mantle: AI-First Development at AWS
AWS
A deep dive into AWS's Project Mantle, where nine senior engineers used AI-first development practices to build a new inference engine with dramatically increased commit velocity.
Cursor by Anysphere
Anysphere
How Cursor pioneered vibe coding, grew to 1M+ daily active users, and navigates the tension between free-form AI coding and spec-driven development.
GitHub Copilot Workspace
GitHub / Microsoft
How GitHub Copilot Workspace evolved from experimental browser-based IDE to the foundation of Copilot's agentic capabilities, introducing spec-driven workflows to mainstream development.
Spotify Honk
Spotify
How Spotify built Honk, their background coding agent that has merged 1,500+ pull requests into production using Claude Code, constraint-based design, and 15 years of platform infrastructure.
StrongDM Software Factory
StrongDM
How StrongDM's Software Factory removes humans from coding and code review, replacing review with scenario-based validation and Digital Twin testing.
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