Processes

How work gets organised, tracked and checked, mostly from the point of view of someone whose team is now largely made of agents.

1. 2026

   • SeriesKnowledge-driven development5 parts

     1. 1
        There is no TODOthe backlog is a grep
     2. 2
        Four markshere be dragons, and nowhere else
     3. 3
        The plan is where the work livestwenty lines of Markdown, two thousand lines of trust
     4. 4
        What it replacesa short obituary for the ticket
     5. 5
        Where it breaksa wrong map is worse than a blank one

   nothing written down for 2020–2025

2. 2019
   • The unreviewable pull requestLet it grow, then have an agent carve it up

   nothing written down for 2011–2018

3. 2010
   • Tests are written for the maintainerThe unit testing methodology I considered good practice, before the advent of AI-assisted development