https://coralreefventures.com/articles/ How we think about building software when agents write the code. en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://coralreefventures.com/articles/intentset-before-launch/ https://coralreefventures.com/articles/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. Wed, 25 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://coralreefventures.com/articles/intentset-in-a-million-lines/ https://coralreefventures.com/articles/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. Wed, 18 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://coralreefventures.com/articles/intentset-before-scale/ https://coralreefventures.com/articles/intentset-before-scale/ 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. Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://coralreefventures.com/articles/we-build-streamlane-in-streamlane/ https://coralreefventures.com/articles/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. Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://coralreefventures.com/articles/code-outruns-review/ https://coralreefventures.com/articles/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. Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://coralreefventures.com/articles/introducing-intentset/ https://coralreefventures.com/articles/introducing-intentset/ 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. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://coralreefventures.com/articles/intent-is-the-work/ https://coralreefventures.com/articles/intent-is-the-work/ 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. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT