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In more than 10 years helping companies launch, I've seen brilliant products fail not because the tech wasn't good enough, but because teams overlooked the unglamorous essentials and seemingly small details that actually make launches work.
When systems fail, panic is the enemy of resolution. A structured approach to incident response can mean the difference between a 10-minute fix and a 3-hour nightmare. Here's the framework that turns chaos into methodical problem-solving.Rich text editors are all the rage with millenial founders but I've realised Markdown is all we need.
Managers in technology like to celebrate amazing things their teams build but there are some necessary and very real parts of their job they don't like to talk about. Alla Babkina, founder of Innovective, meets with Lautaro Orazi, Director of Engineering and former colleague at Theorem, to compare notes.
Andrey was visiting London and met Alla to catch up on all things tech and record in person. Last time we worked together was over 5 years ago so there was too much to fit into a single episode so we wrote down some questions and drew 14 of them from the deck.
AI Agents are powerful tools, can they become true team members? Widespread adoption of AI tools and rapid development of new agents has had the biggest impact on teams since Covid forced everyone into lockdown. Some argue that AI agents will fundamentally change what a team is and we will see blended human-agent teams. In this post we share why we believe this isn't happening in the next few years and why agents cannot yet be team members.
Alla Babkina and Andrey Adamovich discuss the changes AI agents bring to team topologies, their role in teams, and the gap between industry hype and the current maturity of LLMs.
Too much WIP - Work In Progress - your team. This is similar to trying to water the garden faster by putting more water into the hose where the physics of pressure and flow will quickly prove you wrong.
General purpose AI tools based on LLMs (Large Language Models) can turbo-charge your existing business practices, including documentation, but they're not ready to replace them. In fact, good documentation has become more critical than ever - because AI amplifies bad as muchh the good, and pften converges towards mediorcity.