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  • Human-in-the-Loop Engineering

    AI can write code quickly, but shipping reliable software remains a human endeavor. The operating model I've built at Ariso: sprint planning becomes a dashboard of to-dos, I rewrite each in my own words inside Ivan, Ivan opens draft PRs, and custom widgets surface the review queue.

    Oats Blog4 min read
  • Junior Engineers Don't Need to Learn Syntax Anymore

    A hot take sparked by a Reddit thread about AI burnout: junior engineers should still learn data structures, architecture, and system design, because none of it is tied to a specific language.

    Oats Blog6 min read
  • Process Was Always the Bottleneck

    Every week an engineer I respect tells me they're worried a coding agent is coming for their job. Engineers spend about 30% of their time writing code, and the more senior you get, the less you write. The agents took the typing.

    Oats Blog7 min read
  • Keeping Claude in the Loop

    We mentioned a bug in a meeting on Tuesday. This morning, Claude Code suggested fixing it the moment I opened my terminal — and twenty minutes later there was a PR. Here's how ari-hooks wires Ari into Claude Code, and why we don't use a ticketing system anymore.

    Oats Blog6 min read
  • Standup in the Agentic Age

    If your standup is still a tour of what everyone — or everyone's coding agent — did yesterday, you're doing it wrong. Ari already knows what happened. Standup isn't the memory layer anymore; it's the steering layer. Here's how we run it at Ariso.

    Oats Blog4 min read
  • The 20-Minute Feature

    This isn't about autocomplete anymore, or a slightly smarter Clippy. We're talking about a bot that took a feature request from a chat message, understood the business context, scanned the entire codebase, and opened a production-ready Pull Request. It did it in 20 minutes.

    Oats Blog3 min read
  • Coding While You Sleep: Lessons from Building an AI-Native Engineering Team

    Coding agents aren’t going to steal your job—but engineers who learn how to work with them will absolutely outpace those who don’t. At our company, we don’t treat AI as a novelty or a replacement for thinking. We treat it like a junior engineering team that never sleeps.

    Oats Blog5 min read

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