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Part 1 of 3: Agents run your SDLC

How not to suck as a CTO in 2026

28 August 2026

Over 1,000 PRs, 860 merged, one full-time engineer. The six-step SDLC you already run — with agents doing every role and humans holding two gates. Part 1 of 3 on the agentic SDLC.

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Part 2 · coming soon

Your agentic org self-improves

The maintenance loops that find and fix their own bottlenecks — and the four-level self-improvement ladder.

Part 3 · coming soon

Your agents react

Incidents, outages and production access: permission structure, read-vs-write asymmetry, break-glass approvals.

From the Medium archive

Earlier writing on coaching, co-founders and the founder journey — hosted on Medium.

🤓 The CTO: A start-up's hardest position — Why the CTO seat keeps changing under you as the company scales.
💯 100 employees. 100 lessons. What I wish I'd known when starting Nuri — The full lessons list from scaling Nuri to 100 people.
💔 The 5 Types of Co-Founder Break up — The recurring patterns that end co-founder relationships.
🤝 Co-founder relationships: a 30-minute exercise to define triggers & recoveries — A practical exercise to catch a deteriorating co-founder relationship early.
🪞 Founder Annual Review: 26 questions — A reflection template covering self, role, co-founders, company and culture.
🎙️ Alternatives to Journaling for Founders — Voice memos and neutral listeners for founders who won't keep a journal.
🦟 Malaria taught me to delegate — What being forced offline taught me about letting go.
🦀 How to deal with cancer when running a startup — Running a company through a serious diagnosis.
🏃 Why I'm moving to Chairman — Stepping back from the operating seat, deliberately.
🧭 How I Coach — What working with me actually looks like.
🛤️ From Founder to Coach: My Story — The path from building Nuri to coaching founders.

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