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A newsletter on software engineering and leadership in the age of agentic AI. Usually an essay - a reframing, an argument, sometimes something more personal - and sometimes a roundup of what actually mattered in agentic AI. Written from inside the work by someone doing it, not narrating from the outside.

Bobby Oster - an engineering leader who’s spent decades building software and the teams that ship it. A lot of that work now runs through agents, and the newsletter is me writing down what’s changing as it changes. More on the About page.

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