Attention Is the New Bottleneck. Engineer It Like One.
Agents made execution cheap and human attention scarce. The answer isn't more discipline — it's building the same kind of infrastructure that solved every other bottleneck before this one.
Posts tagged “developer-productivity”
Telemetry Is the Context Your Coding Agent Is Missing
The question being asked in r/kubernetes this week is whether to feed observability data to coding agents. Traces, metrics, logs, the whole stream the system already emits — should the agent that…
The Million-Token Context Window Changes What You Put In It
The 1M-token context window is here. Opus 4.8, 4.7, and 4.6, plus Sonnet 4.6, now carry the full million-token context on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Vertex AI — no surcharge, generally…
Absorption Rate Is a Praxis Problem
A LinkedIn post circulating this week made an observation worth sitting with. AI write-throughput in a serious engineering team can hit fifty pull requests a day. The team's merge-throughput is…