Posts tagged AI Coding Tools — AI × software engineering, made practical.
You'll learn how to define an activation event that shows a user actually got value, using AI coding agent adoption as the worked example, and how to test any activation metric with three questions.
There's a number hiding behind your ticket count that actually predicts your next promotion — and almost no one tracks it, because AI made the wrong metric look great.
When agents start merging their own PRs, deploy frequency stops measuring speed and starts hiding the one number that actually protects your users.
AI coding tools didn't make your team faster — they moved the bottleneck somewhere your dashboard isn't looking, and the bill shows up two sprints later as a postmortem.
The two prompts looked almost identical; one let a bug hide in production for two days, the other made the agent stop and confess exactly where it was stuck.