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      "text": "After a couple of months, about 90% of our engineers were now using tools like … regularly to generate code. So on paper, it looked like we were all in on AI. But our CEO was convinced that engineering wasn't using AI at all, like they couldn't be, right? … he was concerned because we weren't shipping any faster.",
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      "text": "So now I felt comfortable claiming that we were truly delegating work to the agents. At this point, it had been three months since launching … champions program and we were seeing great results. AI authored code was up by 69% … savings increased 37% and automated PR's increased 21 times.",
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      "text": "So we built a company world … based on the entirety of our 25,000 repo …, right? And this was a machine readable view of every single service and how they all connect. And this allowed orchestrators and the agents that they delegated to to pull context in as needed and understand the landscape as they implement. And this enabled multiple agents to explore different parts of the system in parallel.",
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      "text": "Engineers were also able to assign … tickets as well as GitHub issues to an agent and have the agent implement the work … So now the agents have become a part of the sprint. This blew everyone's minds. The first time we did this, the team ran out of work and had to pull in more tickets like twice, right? So of course, engineering managers, product teams, they love this flow.",
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      "text": "In the simplest of terms, I defined an … org as one where engineers leverage AI agents as their primary means of producing engineering outcomes. So that meant that our engineers needed to treat agents as core members of their engineering workflow. … using AI to help them write code here and there, but actually working with agents, decomposing problems, delegating work, reviewing and verifying what was done. And we wanted them directing the work as their default way of operating.",
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      "text": "Now with this, we had successfully reached stage five where engineers are delegating complete tasks to agents. … able to produce shippable results without human hand holding. In fact, this wasn't even limited to engineers anymore. Anyone at the company could … or implement a new feature. They didn't even need GitHub.",
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      "text": "We absolutely had to get the bots to help us review PR's. … But now, with the repo readiness work that the champions had done, coupled with better models and tools, … we were getting much better results here. So we enabled … on all the repos, and we also created an auto fix loop where if … issues, another agent will automatically fix those issues and commit them to the PR. So now, at least people were no longer complaining about not wanting to review sloppy PR's from bots, right? By time they got to them, they were in pretty good shape.",
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