Originally published on LinkedIn.
Interesting how so much has changed in 8 months, but the "undisrupted rules" still hold.
- Magic is not real 🪄 (yet !)
This is the "undisrupted rule" that is getting closest from being disrupted. But my coding agents still behave incredibly stupidly - sometimes - so we are not there yet.
- Words are powerful instruments 💡
Still true: even if I am not the only authors of the words
- Expertise and experience matter 🔬
Still true - truer maybe... for now.
- "Code without tests is broken by design" (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) 🧪
Still true.
- "If it isn't documented, it doesn't exist" (W. Edwards Deming) 📜
Truer: Coding agents rely on documentation! It saves tokens and avoids misunderstandings.
I've always liked the discipline of BDD (Behavior Driven Development), even if I never enjoyed reading Gherkin specifications. My AI coding agents don't share my distaste for its dry, repetitive structure — on the contrary! So far, Gherkin is the clearest way to communicate features to them. Coupled with the right Playwright MCP tooling, it becomes a powerhouse that automates most of your E2E testing.
Refactoring is no longer painful. It's fast and partially automated, so there's no excuse to let technical debt pile up.
- Not paying down technical debt is like not fixing a leaky roof because you're too busy mopping the floor 🪣
No more excuse for this one when the cost of refactoring is so low !
- Before you automate, eliminate ❌
Always true
- "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." – Yogi Berra ⏳
True true true
- The best way to get ahead is to get started. 🧭
When production pace is going to become exponential, not starting is fatal.
I would add the following:
Undisputed rule: "Garbage in, garbage out" 🧠
AI did not break this rule — it amplified it. Bad data, vague prompts, unclear requirements, messy context → you just get faster, more confident nonsense.
Undisrupted rule: Systems fail at their boundaries. ⚠️
WE are now the point of failure. See our piece on Frontier operations
New rule: Humans debug reality 🧩
AI can write code. AI can suggest fixes. AI can even generate tests.
But when production melts at 3:17 AM, someone still has to understand what actually happened.
New rule: Undisrupted rule: The real bottleneck is attention 👀
It all started with "all you need is attention". We are the bottleneck. Our ability to focus and supervise and oversee is the bottleneck.
As we continue our journey into the disruptive AI space, some things are still not changing. These are the foundations we are building Runwaize on.