The Backlog Is the Orchestrator: An Autonomous Test → Plan → Implement Agent Pipeline

I have a project that four AI agents work on while I’m not at my computer. One drives the application end to end and files bugs. One reads a bug and proposes how to fix it. I approve or push back. One implements the approved plan and opens a pull request. A fourth runs a long-horizon soak overnight, looking for drift that no short session can see. There is no orchestrator. No message queue, no coordinator agent, no shared database, no framework. The agents never talk to each other and none of them holds state between runs. ...

July 27, 2026 · 15 min · Tyler

Making the Case for AI-First Engineering

For a while, I had a strange feeling at work: I was moving much faster than the system around me. On my own, AI had changed the way I built software. I was spending less time grinding through boilerplate and more time shaping the solution, reviewing output, and testing whether it actually held up. The work felt lighter, but the results were better. I could get through a task in a day that used to drag across most of a week. ...

February 8, 2026 · 7 min · Tyler