#Engineering Leadership

Merge Debt: The 2026 Bill Your Parallel AI Agents Are Running Up

Three agents finish in parallel. Main takes one landing at a time. METR's perception gap, the rebase tax, and why Merge Debt is the number nobody plots.

Your Knowledge Is a Depreciating Asset. Judgment Compounds.

AI made reproducible knowledge free, so technical expertise is now a depreciating asset. Judgment is the one that compounds. Here is how to move your weight.

The Senior Engineer Signal: The 2026 Risk Your Velocity Metrics Hide

Juniors get the biggest boost from AI; seniors trust it least. That split is your earliest read on engineering risk, and on the talent you're about to lose.

Agent Sprawl: The 2026 Engineering Risk Your Auditor Hasn't Named Yet

Unknown numbers of AI coding agents run in parallel — no audit trail, no isolation, no per-team measurement. By 2026 that's an audit finding.