The Lightsprint Blog
Notes from the AI product workbench.
Ideas on agent orchestration, context engineering, and how engineers and PMs ship together when AI is in the loop.
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Jira Was Built for Scrum. We're Building for What Comes Next.
Scrum and Jira were built for a world where humans wrote every line. As agents one-shot the build, the bottleneck moves to the spec, to coordination, and to shared context. This is our case for a new SDLC, Spec-Driven Delivery, and the cadence that replaces the sprint, built to keep teams together as agents threaten to pull them apart.
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Agent-Native Engineering: When the Agent Becomes the IC and the Engineer Becomes the Manager
Agent-native engineering isn't giving every engineer a coding agent. It's restructuring the team so agents are the ICs, engineers are tech leads, and PMs ship product themselves. Here's what changes, and what breaks if you don't catch up.
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- background-agents
- engineering-orgs
- product-development
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Cloud Environments and Shared Skills: Keep Your Context When Your Engineer Gets Poached by Anthropic
The next unlock for coding agents isn't smarter models. It's shared cloud environments and shared skills, so a team's hard-won context survives the people who built it.
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- agents
- team-collaboration
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Outgrowing Lovable and Replit: When Prototypes Need a Production Home
Lovable and Replit are great for the first idea. They start to crack the moment a real team, a real codebase, and a real customer show up. Here's the handoff that actually works.
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- replit
- production
- team-collaboration
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Harvey Built Their Own Software Factory. You Can Too.
Harvey AI, valued at $8B+, built an internal platform called Spectre to move coding agents from laptops to the cloud. Every company using AI agents will need this. Here's what they learned.
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- infrastructure
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Why Local Development Is Going Away. Long Live Cloud Agents.
The shift from local coding agents to cloud-based execution is inevitable. Preview environments are trending toward instant and free. Here's why the future of development is in the cloud.
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- preview-environments
- developer-experience
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Multiplayer Collaboration Is the Future of Development
Coding agents made individual engineers 10x faster. But the rest of the product team still files tickets and waits. The next shift isn't faster agents. It's the whole team shipping together.
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- product-development
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SDLC of the Past vs SDLC of the Future
The software development lifecycle was designed for a world where writing code was the bottleneck. AI changed that. Here's what the new SDLC looks like.
- sdlc
- product-development
- ai-agents