Start Here: Your Guide to AI-Native Development

Welcome to Agent Driven Development

This site explores how AI is transforming software development—not just the tools, but the entire way we build, lead, and measure software teams. Whether you’re an executive, engineering leader, or developer, find your path below.

For Executives (CEOs, CTOs, CIOs)

Start with the strategic view of AI transformation:

• The 2028 Problem You’re Creating in 2025 — Why waiting for clarity is the riskiest strategy
• The Bottlenecked CEO — Why silos make AI measurement impossible
• What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here — Adapting leadership for the AI era
• Your AI Investment Is Failing — The real reason and how to fix it
• Waste Density vs Value Density — Communicating AI value to your board

For VPs and Directors of Engineering

Tactical guidance for engineering leadership:

• A Letter to VPs of Engineering — How AI changes how you lead
• A Letter to Engineering Directors — Adapting your role
• The Senior Director’s Guide — Delivering results while managing up
• Leading AI in the Constraints — Building bridges within enterprise limits
• Your Best Engineer Shouldn’t Pick Their AI — Making AI infrastructure
• Goodnight to Epics — Adapting agile for AI velocity

For Developers

Practical guidance for individual contributors:

• A Letter to Mid and Late-Career Developers — How to adapt
• The Engineers Who Can’t Use AI Agents — What’s really blocking you
• Your AI Agent is a Five-Year-Old — How to work with AI effectively
• You Cannot Read Yourself Into AI Literacy — Why hands-on building matters
• The Use Case Is Building Software — Stop waiting, start building

For HR and People Leaders

• 2 Things HR Needs to Do Different — Hiring and measuring in the AI era
• Can’t Hire the Engineer You Need? — Building talent from within
• Developer Happiness in the AI-SDLC — The emotional side of AI adoption

Evaluating AI Tools and Vendors

• Three Questions Before the Demo — What vendors should ask you
• 3 Questions Before AI Touches Your SDLC — Measuring macro results
• Stop Asking for Advanced AI Training — What you actually need to learn

Understanding the Shift

• Every Agile Artifact Was Built to Derisk Humans — What to keep and throw away
• Gen AI Is Infrastructure Now — The governance challenge
• Your Questions Reveal Your Adoption Stage — Diagnose and accelerate

Featured: Congratulations: You Just Reinvented Peter Gibbons from Office Space — A satirical look at what happens when AI adoption goes wrong.