Archive - Ellis & Kherdekar

AI Shipped It. Can Anyone Explain It?

Agents write code faster than your team can learn it. That gap is a debt, and it comes due during your next outage.

Oct 8 • Michael Ellis

AI Teams: Hold the Destination, Change the Route

AI broke the predictable ladder engineering used to climb. Anchor your team's culture on the problem instead.

Oct 6 • Rishi Kherdekar

AI Builds Faster. Your Time Just Moved.

Agents cut build time way down. The human hours didn't go away. They moved, and you get to pick where.

Oct 1 • Michael Ellis

September 2026

Agentic AI Is an Operating Model Change

Two operators on building, delivering, and running with AI inside a large enterprise.

Sep 29 • Rishi Kherdekar

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