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.
July 17, 2026
The Product Builder SDLC
Anyone with domain knowledge can become a product builder. Here is the six-stage lifecycle for turning an idea into a planned, previewed, production-ready feature on the real codebase.
SDLC
product-development
product-builders
agent-native
July 13, 2026
The New Product Builder: From Lovable to Claude to the Real Codebase
Product managers and designers are moving from prototypes to production. The next generation of product builders will not stop at generating new apps. They will build safely on the real codebase alongside engineers.
product-builders
product-management
design
agent-native
product-development
June 14, 2026
The Unbundling of GitHub Is the Biggest Opportunity in Developer Tools
GitHub bundled code storage, pull requests, CI/CD, code review, and issues into one place built around humans typing code. Agents break that assumption. As the build collapses to near zero, every layer of that bundle comes loose, and the workflow gets rebuilt around the spec instead of the diff. Here's why we think the unbundling of GitHub is the largest opportunity in developer tools, and where LightSprint fits.
github
unbundling
developer-tools
agent-native
spec-driven-delivery
May 29, 2026
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.
manifesto
spec-driven-delivery
SDLC
agent-native
product-development
May 26, 2026
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.
agent-native
background-agents
engineering-orgs
product-development
May 24, 2026
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.
cloud-environments
shared-skills
agents
team-collaboration
May 20, 2026
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.
lovable
replit
production
team-collaboration
April 18, 2026
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.
ai-agents
infrastructure
cloud-agents
April 16, 2026
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.
cloud-agents
preview-environments
developer-experience
April 13, 2026
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.
collaboration
product-development
ai-agents
April 10, 2026
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