Jul 29, 2026
#361: Picture a 6,000-line pull request landing in your project from someone you've never heard of. Every test passes - yours, theirs, all of it. And you can tell it was generated. Not assisted. Generated. What do you do with it? Viktor's first move is to poke the premise: how do you even know it was generated and...
Jul 22, 2026
#360: Assume your production systems go sideways at 3:00am. Your phone doesn't ring. You wake up to a clean incident report - the system caught the problem, fixed itself, and left a Slack note saying it handled things at 3:15. Would you trust it? Viktor wouldn't, not at first. Same as a new hire, a new tool, a...
Jul 15, 2026
#359: When was the last time you sat through a 30-minute product demo and walked away actually knowing anything? You would learn more from five minutes hands-on than an hour of watching someone else drive.
Now you have help. An agent can watch the 30-minute video, play in the sandbox, read every page of the docs, and...
Jul 8, 2026
#358: Production is on fire. You need access to one table you have never touched. So you file an access request, then phone the desk to say you filed it, then Slack them to say you phoned, then walk over to say you Slacked. Twenty-five minutes later the incident has resolved itself and the customer has already...
Jul 1, 2026
#357: Type a prompt, get code, fix the hallucinations, type another prompt. That is vibe coding, and it is a fine place to start. It is a terrible place to stay. So what comes next - and is spec-driven development actually it, or just waterfall wearing a new hat?
Here is the reframe that runs the whole conversation:...