ran into this last quarter - my agent was producing cleaner specs but I stopped pressure-testing edge cases. caught it when someone asked why we hadn’t considered X and I had no answer. the output layer was fine. the thinking layer had quietly atrophied.
yeah, the framing matters - friction you can skip is just theater. what worked for me was one hard block before architecture lock, not sprinkled checkpoints that the team routes around after two weeks.
yeah - the tricky part is getting teams to accept the non-negotiable block before they've had an incident that would've hit it. post-incident it's easy. pre-incident you're arguing with people who've never seen the failure mode.
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ran into this last quarter - my agent was producing cleaner specs but I stopped pressure-testing edge cases. caught it when someone asked why we hadn’t considered X and I had no answer. the output layer was fine. the thinking layer had quietly atrophied.
Thanks for sharing your recent experience Mykola.
It seems like a bit of extra friction to your process could help cover such edge cases.
yeah, the framing matters - friction you can skip is just theater. what worked for me was one hard block before architecture lock, not sprinkled checkpoints that the team routes around after two weeks.
true, it's important that friction shouldn't always be skippable when it matters, otherwise it loses the whole point
yeah - the tricky part is getting teams to accept the non-negotiable block before they've had an incident that would've hit it. post-incident it's easy. pre-incident you're arguing with people who've never seen the failure mode.