Posts connected by the automation tag.
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I am a good directly responsible individual in an emergency, and I do well against a reasonable deadline. That does not mean I want to live there. Manual toil is shoveling fertilizer: someone has to do it sometimes, it should rotate, and once it passes half the job you stop building. The way out is to build the machine that does the shoveling, and the hardest pile is the one that arrives from another team's pipeline.
A reference write-up of Musk's five-step algorithm and what each step is supposed to mean when the thing being improved is a manual process in software engineering. Question the requirement, delete the step, simplify, accelerate, automate. Mostly a description of what the algorithm claims rather than an argument that it is correct, with a short closing note on where I do agree, in particular the rule that if you are not occasionally adding things back you are not cutting enough.
Elon's algorithm is not really an automation algorithm. It is a procedure for forcing shared understanding of a process, and automation is what it happens to permit at the end. The Quest Engine says the same thing structurally and translates it to a world that is mostly digital, where the walk around the factory floor can be delegated to agents and the goal is not a fully automated process but a self-sustaining one that keeps humans only where judgment genuinely lives.
A deep dive into how a keyboard configuration project evolved from manual Go programming to agent-assisted development, and the surprising realization that having agents make direct changes is simpler than writing code to automate everything.
How this entire blog system was created using AI agents, including the technical implementation, content creation, and instructions for adding new posts.
Software development projects spanning mobile applications, web development, system tools, and emerging technologies.