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AI engineering field notes

Reports about putting AI into engineering work without losing review, provenance, or technical ownership.

Scope boundary: This hub covers engineering control. Product safety remains in its own domain.

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  1. AI Engineering Control

    Two roadmaps make fresh code feel like legacy

    What a repository reveals when the team's real planning horizon is shorter than the official product plan.

    Two roadmaps make fresh code feel like legacy
  2. AI Engineering Control

    Agents work better as advisors

    A practical boundary for agentic engineering when confident automation is still wrong often enough to matter.

    Agents work better as advisors

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