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Operations
5 entries tagged “Operations”
- How Great CTOs Design AI Roadmaps That Survive Contact With Reality
Canon post —
· 3 min
AI roadmaps fail when they are sequenced around ambition instead of dependency, verification, and rollback cost.
strategy
ai
leadership
Hiring for AI Teams: The Operator Profile That Actually Scales
· 3 min
The highest-leverage AI hires are operators who can handle ambiguity, systems tradeoffs, and verification pressure.
hiring
ai
leadership
Build the System the Model Cannot Break
· 12 min
A manifesto for building AI-native organizations. Twelve tenets across strategy, architecture, economics, and people — and the only test that matters in year two.
manifesto
ai
strategy
The Throughput Engineer: Why Headcount Is a Lagging Metric
Canon post —
· 8 min
Headcount is a lagging metric. The best engineering organizations measure throughput: decision speed, defect containment, and constraint removal.
engineering-leadership
productivity
operations
SRE Principles Are Great. The Cargo-Culting Is Not.
· 5 min
The SRE hype train has everyone copying Google's playbook without asking whether it fits. Here's what actually matters when you're not running planet-scale infrastructure.
sre
devops
reliability