August 24, 2026
Estimated reading time: 23 minutes
Key takeaways:
- Plan technical decisions by how costly they are to reverse, not by how** important they feel**. - Present your AI roadmap as assumptions, not** firm conclusions**. Build the thinnest possible end-to-end version before committing to a full direction.
Three months. That’s roughly the interval at which the “right way” to build something in AI shifts under you. A new agent harness lands and makes the orchestration you spent a quarter on look overweight. A better retrieval pattern quietly changes what “good” looks like for the feature you’re mid-flight on.
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August 24, 2026
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