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Work happens through decomposition. Epic, phase, work unit. Not tickets.
Guardian essay
Pulse Operations SDLC
The rhythm of the Modern Principal's lifecycle: agents flow, people meet on a cadence, and a person decides. Six continuous states for every signal, on the screens of a real sprint.
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Agents in the ceremonies you already run: one sprint, on the record
Part three. We did not invent a new SDLC for agents. We put them into the Scrum most teams run, and kept the record: 311 build sessions, $3,268 at list price, 1,470 test runs judged on evidence, and the three things the record caught us getting wrong.
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Show HN: Everyone can generate a demo now. Almost nobody can hand over a company.
A demo is a foal. It cost nothing and it cannot finish a race. We are a very small shop that breeds the whole horse: data model, application, billing, infrastructure, the console you watch it from, and the support that runs after we leave. Here is the stable, and here is what is still dashed.
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Under the film: what one sprint meeting leaves behind
Part two. One real sprint meeting, kept as a model: 94 beats, 43 defined topics, 94 cited facts, a nine-step path, a self-test with no model call, the close against its pre-read, a $1.34 receipt, and all of it in Spanish.
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Every claim cites a fact: agents and people in one SDLC, filmed end to end
Our AI agents sit in the sprint's meetings, and any claim that does not cite a fact from the frozen snapshot is struck before it is said. Nineteen minutes of the whole lifecycle on real screens, a real refinement that cost $1.34 and fell short of its own pre-read, and what does not work yet.
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StellarView Alpha, part one: the plan asked 357 questions and refused to answer 281 of them
We pointed StellarView at Conduit, the most-implemented demo application on the internet, and asked for it as an operated platform rather than an app. It produced ten phases, 106 work units, and 357 questions it would not guess at.
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StellarView Alpha, part two: it read a Dockerfile I had committed an hour earlier
A plan for a ten-phase platform produced 357 questions and refused to answer 281 of them. One had opened the repository, noticed docker-compose declared a build for a service whose Dockerfile did not exist, and asked who owned it. I had committed that file an hour before and left it unfinished.
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The experience was the hard part
A field operator spent years knocking doors, understood the work precisely enough to describe it, and a factory turned that description into a running platform in weeks. Everyone is asking whether AI can build software. The harder question is who knows what to build.
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Beyond Guardrails: The Full Agentic Assembly Line
Zambelli's Forge proves 8B models can hit 99% reliability with guardrails. StellarView extends this into a complete pipeline from prompt to production deployment.
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The SDLC Skills Every Modern Principal Must Know
The old roles are collapsing. BA, architect, dev, QA, ops: they are becoming one person. Here are the skills that person needs, and how StellarView makes each one practicable.
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Anatomy of an Epic: How StellarView Decomposes Vision into Execution
From a 15,000-word specification to 11 executable phases with 78 work units, architecture diagrams, and addressable gaps. The complete breakdown of how Big Bang works.
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