PinnedInThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Nov 4Collected and Committed: The Missing Half of the AI Context RushIn two weeks, 14 vendors launched products that gather context for AI agents, and Forrester published a formal definition of context…
Stefan Iarca·4d agoHuman Agency Must Not Be LostFour years ago, the eight-hour day paid for doing the work.
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Oct 21Is the Floor Still Wet?AI agents act on the rules companies give them, and this month’s context engineering conversations keep circling one specific problem…
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Oct 7ADRs Were Written for the Next Engineer. The Next Engineer Is Now an AI Agent.A reply to Volodymyr Vreshch on agent memory, and why a fix from 2011 fits AI agents so well.
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Oct 6We Asked AI Where Teams Should Keep Their Decisions. The Answer? Use a Wiki.Three AI assistants kept including a general-purpose wiki when we asked where teams should keep their decisions. That advice works for…
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Sep 24AI Can’t Ask Your ColleagueAI focus has shifted from model improvement to context engineering, and the data supports its importance: agents fail more often because…
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Sep 8We Thought a Decision Record Was Enough. It’s Not.A decision record documents one choice. The ledger around it also holds matters, world facts, scratchpads, and the outcomes that followed…
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Aug 13Nobody Records Their DecisionsWe went looking for what a decision is actually made of, rigorously enough that a machine could fill it in. It came out fish-shaped: a…
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Jul 29No Tool Records How You Decided (We Checked!)Your company records its decisions somewhere. We spent months looking for the software that also records the reasoning behind them, fully…
InThe Decision RecordbyStefan Iarca·Jul 21AI Breaks All Rules That Nobody ExplainedEvery team has its own fences: an arcane rule, a bizarre procedure, some ancient software component that everyone works around but nobody…
