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Notes from teams that
ship AI in production.

Practical playbooks from the working day on an AI-native engineering team — written for engineering leaders who want patterns they can copy, not vibes. No hype, no listicles. New posts on an irregular cadence; subscribe by following StartCut on LinkedIn.

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1 post · May 2026

No. 01

The AI-Native Engineering Workflow.

A practical, end-to-end workflow for teams that ship with AI. Ten stages, gated by adversarial review, with clear seams between what humans own, what models own, and where the two meet.

Playbook Workflow Engineering leaders

No. 02

More notes in flight.

We write these after we run them on real engagements. The next batch covers context-corpus mechanics, adversarial review rubrics, and the case for per-ticket retrospectives.

In progress

Notes from teams that ship AI in production.

The AI-Native Engineering Workflow.

More notes in flight.

Notes from teams that
ship AI in production.