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#Engineering Leadership
3 articles
- One person owns the outcome. The team owns the solution.James Stanier argues every project needs one named owner. I agree, with one adjustment for enterprise teams: individual accountability without individualising the work. What named ownership will and won't fix, and how I'm going to test it.4 min read
- Human-in-the-loop is not a security boundaryTwo AI agents deleted production databases. Neither was stopped by its instructions. Approval improves an agent's decisions; it doesn't limit what the agent can do. Why agent safety is a permissions and architecture problem first, how to size the risk of an action, and what humans are actually for.8 min read
- Tech debt snowballs, then it avalanchesTechnical debt rarely fails slowly. It grows quietly for months, then one day nothing can move until it's fixed. How to spot the snowball, why you don't get to choose the avalanche day, and what a lead can do before it arrives.5 min read