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More Clarity, Less Noise — Volume I cover

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More Clarity, Less Noise

by Rick Pollick

Two volumes — writings on mindset, people, process, product, data, and AI.

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The ADR Comeback: Anchoring Agentic Engineering Teams With Architecture Decision Records
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The ADR Comeback: Anchoring Agentic Engineering Teams With Architecture Decision Records

Agentic coding tools are refactoring services that humans spent years getting right, and most of them have no memory of why the original design existed. Architecture Decision Records were a tidy idea when humans wrote all the code; they are now load-bearing infrastructure for any team where an AI agent touches production. A practical playbook for the ADR discipline, the new metrics that matter, and the three failure modes to avoid.

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