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How we think about building software when agents write the code, and what we learn building our own that way. Follow along with the RSS feed.

25 November 2026

Intentset before launch

A new product for teachers, a month old and not yet released, wrote down its 41 behaviors and bound every promise to the test that proves it, in one pull request.

18 November 2026

Intentset in a million lines

A learning platform for schools is writing down what it promises, one area at a time. In twelve days the record found more than 500 gaps, and one modeled rule led to four authorization fixes.

11 November 2026

A school assessment app wrote down what it promises before agents took on most of its work. In the twelve days after, it merged 186 pull requests, and writing it down found security gaps code review had not.

5 November 2026

We build Streamlane in Streamlane

How an agent takes a piece of work from an item to a merged change in seven stages, and why every change still traces back to a decision a person made.

29 October 2026

Code outruns review

An agent can open more pull requests in an afternoon than a team can review in a week. When the diff can no longer be where the product is decided, something else has to be.

28 October 2026

Introducing Intentset, in 23 slides

Why we built Intentset, who the deck is for, and how to read it: the product's promises written down and kept true while agents change the code.

15 October 2026

Intent is the work: building software when agents write the code

When agents write the code, the work that remains is deciding what the product should do, proving it still does, and learning whether it should. Why products drift when code outruns review, and what Coral Reef Ventures is building for it.