- 04 Is the 10x engineer still a thing?
A CTO friend can no longer pick out the 10x engineers on his team, because agentic coding has turned every capable engineer into one.
- 03 Does every CTO need a skunkworks?
With agentic teams, two hackers can spin up five MVPs while a normal team ships one feature. The case for keeping a skunkworks in your back pocket.
- 02 Containment beats permission
Coding agents should run unsupervised, but inside a dev environment that's safe to be wrong in. The agent boundary is the wrong line to defend.
- 01 Vibe coding isn't engineering
Engineers treat coding agents as smart junior devs. Vibe coders treat them as their CTO. The gap matters more than the AI hype suggests.