AI Features Without a Feature Factory
Aaron Wise
AI feature prioritization: fund a model only when there is a measurable user problem, data you can use and a way to evaluate it. Otherwise it is output.
Editor's Pick
View All
Leadership & Management
More in Leadership & Management
What a Week of AI Coding Agents Actually Cost Me
Aaron Wise
Real numbers from one week of Claude Code and Codex — cost, cache savings, CI minutes, what ran, and what broke.
Leading Teams Where Agents Write Half the Code
Aaron Wise
Leading engineering teams with AI coding agents: make review the main job, keep a named human owner per system, and retrain juniors for judgment.
Reporting Engineering to the Board Without Vanity Metrics
Aaron Wise
Engineering metrics for the board: report predictability, reliability, cost, risk and capacity, drop activity counts, and adapt the page as you grow.
Product Management
More in Product ManagementAI Features Without a Feature Factory
Aaron Wise
AI feature prioritization: fund a model only when there is a measurable user problem, data you can use and a way to evaluate it. Otherwise it is output.
Pricing Is a Product Decision Engineering Needs to Be In On
Aaron Wise
SaaS pricing decisions set architecture: seats, plan limits and usage billing each have a build cost. Bring engineering in to cost options before launch.
Engineering
More in EngineeringWhat a Week of AI Coding Agents Actually Cost Me
Aaron Wise
Real numbers from one week of Claude Code and Codex — cost, cache savings, CI minutes, what ran, and what broke.
Your Coding Agents Are Making Supply-Chain Decisions
Aaron Wise
Coding agents and supply chain security: agents add packages and run install scripts nobody approved. Gate new dependencies, sandbox agents, pin builds.
Must Read
View All
Engineering, Insights, Leadership & Management, Must Read
The Wrong Kind of Early: When Startups Aren’t Ready for Senior Engineering Leadership
Senior engineering leaders need a clear problem, founder-market fit, and rough business plan before joining a startup.
Roadmap Roulette: Choosing the Right Prioritization Model for Every Stage of Growth
The right roadmap prioritization model depends on your company’s growth stage and strategic goals.
Data Science
More in Data Science
Know the Cost per Answer Before You Ship an LLM Feature
Aaron Wise
LLM cost per query, fully loaded: what one answer costs, what it is worth, what heavy users do to both, and the levers that fix the math before launch.
Evaluations Are the Spec for an LLM Feature
Aaron Wise
LLM evaluation sets are the spec: write twenty good-answer test cases before building, with product owning the bar and engineering keeping it green.
Beyond Words: How NLP Turns Flat Text into Context
Aaron Wise
NLP adds context to flat text through statistical and neural models, enabling machines to act on meaning rather than symbols.
Recent Posts
Search all postsYour Coding Agents Are Making Supply-Chain Decisions
Coding agents and supply chain security: agents add packages and run install scripts nobody approved. Gate new dependencies, sandbox agents, pin builds.
Pricing Is a Product Decision Engineering Needs to Be In On
SaaS pricing decisions set architecture: seats, plan limits and usage billing each have a build cost. Bring engineering in to cost options before launch.
Leading Teams Where Agents Write Half the Code
Leading engineering teams with AI coding agents: make review the main job, keep a named human owner per system, and retrain juniors for judgment.
Explaining Cloud and AI Spend to a CFO
How to explain cloud and AI costs to a CFO: unit costs, range forecasts with named drivers, commitments shown apart, and what changes by stage.
Crossing Organizational Boundaries
More in Crossing Organizational Boundaries
Cross Organizational, security
The Security Questionnaire Is Part of the Sale
Enterprise security questionnaires stall deals nobody owns. Run review as a sales stage: answer library, trust page, one owner, SOC 2 when deals need it.
Product Management, Cross Organizational
Pricing Is a Product Decision Engineering Needs to Be In On
SaaS pricing decisions set architecture: seats, plan limits and usage billing each have a build cost. Bring engineering in to cost options before launch.